DCIP announces? While no formal statements have been made by DCIP, a lot has been said. DCI and NIST. NIST demonstrates the potential to pull the rug out from under DCI. SMPTE progress report. Demonstration update. ISDCF and NATO digital cinema demonstrations in the coming month – very different in nature. Pixar introduces new audio
Archives for February 2010
DCIP and its Non-Announcement
The press has been far more eager than DCIP to announce completion of its funding and its readiness to rollout. Both the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal published articles this month of a pending announcement. The one announcement that did occur, though, was by Amy Miles,
DCI and NIST: A Boondoggle-in-Waiting
The value of the DCI specification is the agreement among studios on distribution packaging and security. Distribution packaging is homegrown: the concept was developed in SMPTE before DCI was even formed, with the result that the industry has a lot of control over changes in the packaging format.
SMPTE Update
SMPTE 21DC meetings were starting to become boring, so much so that your author’s 21DC30 Exhibition Working Group completed its December meeting in under an hour. What a difference three months can bring. In February, the same working group met for over two hours, reviewing a host of documentation