I was asked by my friends at MEDIA Salles to report how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted cinema in the US. I don’t have numbers for box office, and even if I did, they wouldn’t be worth reporting. It isn’t numbers that I find
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All You Need Is Trust
When selling equipment whose primary feature is security, the greatest asset a company can have is the trust of those who rely on its products. Huawei, a manufacturer of communication equipment based in China, has been subject to much
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DCI’s New HDR Drafts Leave More Work To Do
DCI posted two new documents towards a cinema HDR specification in November, titled “DRAFT Direct View Display D-Cinema Addendum” and “DRAFT High Dynamic Range D-Cinema Addendum”. They represent a major improvement over DCI’s previous
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DCI Has Lost Its Way
Samsung 5m Onyx in background, Sony BVM-X300 in foreground, at Roundabout West in Santa Monica CA, viewing ICAS material. Both displays set for 300 nit peak white. (click to enlarge)
The way it's supposed to work, a cinema should be
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Don’t Underestimate MoviePass
Exhibition data is worth more than you think.
There's much about cinema that makes it ripe for disruption.
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