Nearly all major studios report that they’re overwhelmed with deployment agreement negotiations at this time. By the sound of it, these are largely non-US deals. It’s likely that a number of these deals involve significant education of the prospective deployment entity. From experience in working on such deals together, international virtual print
Archives for April 2009
NATO & ISDCF
The Americans with Disabilities Act in the US has been a challenge for exhibitors for the past 10 years. The technology to satisfy the law has been proprietary and not particularly cheap, but special interest groups choose to litigate to ensure adoption of it. The problem only grows worse with digital
NAB Digital Cinema Summit
The NAB Digital Cinema Summit has been the primary event in the US for the discussion of digital cinema technology. I first presented the SMPTE packaging concept for digital cinema at this event in 2002. But the degree of innovation needed to fuel an interesting and worthwhile event has run short,
Other News
A revised DCI v1.3 Specification is said to be in progress. Even if published soon, as rumored, more changes to the DCI specification will continue to be forthcoming. Some studios are considering changing the specification to allow a Key Delivery Message (KDM) to have an empty Trusted Device List (TDL), making