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SMPTE Update

November 2009

SMPTE 21DC meets in December.  Since the last meeting in September, significant work has been put into a solution for the TI Series 2 security messaging problem.  A revision to SMPTE 430-6 Auditorium Security Message (ASM) has been drafted and will be proposed for ballot.  For users of digital cinema equipment, servers that support the [...]

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Closed Caption Update

October 2009

Closed caption display devices were shown at ShowEast by USL and Doremi.  While the end displays are somewhat similar in appearance, the technology behind each is very different.
Both devices sit on goosenecks that mount in the cup holder.  Both use battery-driven electronic displays to display the caption text.  The USL device uses a special lens [...]

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SMPTE Update

September 2009

SMPTE 21DC also met this month, making significant progress with several standards.  Voted to move forward for publication are:

429-13 DCP Operational Constraints for Alternative Frame Rates,
430-10 Aux Content Synchronization Protocol, and
430-11 Aux Resource Presentation List.

The 430-10 and 430-11 documents are the last in a suite of four standards, two of which are already published, for [...]

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NATO and Accessibility

July 2009

NATO and ISDCF held a special 2 hour session in early June, with 100 people in attendance, to emphasize the importance of establishing an industry timeline for implementation of accessibility features in digital cinema.  There is considerable and reasonable concern that the US Department of Justice will issue a ruling that requires all US theatre [...]

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Closed Captions

March 2009

State Attorney General-initiated lawsuits against exhibitors over ADA (American’s with Disabilities Act) compliance are now active in three states. As the potential grows to begin a large-scale rollout of digital cinema to major exhibitors, the ability of digital cinema to meet ADA compliance comes into question.
To date, only the WGBH Rear Window system is available [...]

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SMPTE

February 2009

SMPTE working groups 21DC-10 Mastering and 21DC-30 Exhibition met mid-February. Changes were proposed to 430-6 Auditorium Security Messages (ASM) by DCI consultant Tony Wechselberger and TI Director of DLP Cinema Technology Reiner Doetzkies. The standard, which is less than a year old, describes the process of establishing a secure TLS session across a network [...]

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