SMPTE Working Groups and Ad Hoc Groups meet June 2 in Los Angeles. Following the last round of meetings in February, several document ballots closed: 428-5 TIFF Mapping for DCDM 428-19 Additional Frame Rates for the SDI interface 428-x Archive Frame Rates 430-6 Auditorium Security Message (ASM) (Revision) A brief explanation
Archives for May 2010
Toy Story 3’s New Sound Format, and the Future of Sound
With the release of Disney’s Toy Story 3 comes the introduction of the 7.1DS sound format. This is a different 7.1 format than that introduced by Sony in the mid-90’s. The new format brings to light some problems that lie ahead for digital cinema sound. First, an explanation of the
DCI and NIST: The Continuing Saga
DCI has a serious problem on hand, the most serious it has encountered since the discussion of implementing 6 different security systems took place prior to 2004. Just as DCI members were uneducated then as to how sophisticated digital security actually works, it remains uneducated today as to the shortcoming
Other News
Nancy Fares, Manager for TI’s DLP Cinema™ division, departed from TI in May, accepting the CEO position for Micralyne in Edmonton, Canada, a manufacturer of MEMS devices. (MEMS stands for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems – the core semiconductor technology behind DLP.) Micralyne develops MEMS for several applications, including biomedical