ISDCF update. The July Plugfest and the whodunit game. SMPTE update. Report on the August SMPTE WGs and AHGs meetings. Accessibility Technology and Market Strategy. FIPS update. No news is bad news. Deployment Deals and the Impact on Equipment Cost. The Art of Bad 3-D Conversion. You, too, can learn the shortcuts for
Archives for August 2010
ISDCF
The Plugfest blues continue, as vendors move at a snail pace to unravel what took place during the tests conducted in July. Three test materials were used, two produced and mastered by Fox (Avatar and a home-brew Killer Stress Test), and a revised version of Disney’s The Game Plan mastered
SMPTE
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
FIPS Compliance
SMPTE 21DC conducts a study group to learn the impacts on SMPTE standards of the changes in NIST FIPS standards. Luckily for SMPTE, it was recently determined that no impact to its standards will occur for three years. DCI wishes it were so lucky. In its quest to carry on