Competition in the fulfillment space can be brutal, as studios push hard to squeeze cost out of the process. A service that is often coupled with fulfillment is that of content mastering, whose deliverable is the digital cinema package, or DCP. Coupled with this service is an even more
Archives for December 2010
The Projection Booth
Digital cinema equipment is anything but mature. Early equipment architectures were not original, based on a standalone server and a standalone projector. Texas Instruments had the option early on to include media block functionality in its licensed design for the DLP CinemaTM projector. Had TI been more aggressive
DCI Compliance and its Future with NIST
This publication has dealt extensively with the issue of DCI compliance and the issues imposed by changes in the NIST FIPS 140 security requirements. While NIST updated most of the FIPS 140-2 Annex documents in November, it didn’t provide further guidance on the transition to stricter rules for dual-use of
Deployment Entities and the Transition
When the raising the newly minted subject of virtual print fees (VPFs) in a breakfast meeting with a former studio executive in 2005, the spontaneous comment evoked was “history has shown that subsidies do not work.” But subsidies combined with 3-D have proven otherwise. The current digital cinema adoption rate is