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SMPTE Update

July 2011

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ISDCF and SMPTE News

May 2011

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DCI’s Next Steps with NIST

February 2011

DCI agreed to a proposed solution by the SMPTE Study Group on NIST Revisions and DCI for solving the dual certificate issue.  The method shown last month was under consideration, but the proposal that’s moving forward is simpler with less impact.   Rather than impose a change in the way KDMs are made, the accepted method [...]

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SMPTE Update

February 2011

SMPTE’s 21DC ad hoc groups and working groups met this month.  For the working groups, it was their last meeting.  21DC10 Mastering, chaired by Al Barton (now with Fox), and 21DC30, chaired by your author, will be retired in the formal Technology Committee meeting to be held in March.  The change has been a long [...]

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ISDCF’s January Plugfest Indicates…That We Need Another Plugfest

January 2011

ISDCF conducted its 4th Plugfest in January to test the functionality of subtitles and accessibility with SMPTE DCP-compliant servers.  The previous Plugfest was in November, and was “virtual.”  Content was distributed, and vendors reported their results.  The January Plugfest was physical.  As with other Plugfests and digital-cinema demonstrations, it was held at the Technicolor ITC [...]

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SMPTE and ISDCF Make Progress with Audio

January 2011

The dynamics behind cinema sound are not well understood.  This leads to goofs as reported in the article that follows.  And it has led to a very late response, albeit a good response, from SMPTE and ISDCF to the issues that continue to pervade digital cinema audio.
ISDCF made progress this month by accepting, for the [...]

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SMPTE Update

November 2010

SMPTE 21DC working groups and project groups met on Nov 30, barely within the reporting window for this month’s report.  Several revised documents are on the path for elevation to ballot.
The documents are:

429-2 DCP Operational Constraints
430-4 Security Log Format
430-5 Security Log Constraints
430-7 Facility List
430-9 KDM Bundle
433 Datatypes

The 430 and 433 series documents are revised to [...]

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SMPTE

August 2010

The 21DC working groups and other sub-groups met end of month on August 31.  A plenary session of the 21DC Technology Committee is scheduled for September 17 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Last December, the CSP/RPL protocol for synchronizing out-board closed caption systems, passed all ballots in SMPTE.  The protocol is described in SMPTE documents S430-10 Aux Content [...]

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