ISDCF's January Plugfest Indicates...that we need another Plugfest.
SMPTE and ISDCF Make Progress with Audio, but don't hold your breath for SMPTE.
DCI and NIST: No News Is Good News? Complacency is everwhere.
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Archives for January 2011
ISDCF’s January Plugfest Indicates…That We Need Another Plugfest
ISDCF conducted its 4th Plugfest in January to test the functionality of subtitles and accessibility with SMPTE DCP-compliant servers. The previous Plugfest was in November, and was "virtual." Content was distributed, and vendors reported
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SMPTE and ISDCF Make Progress with Audio
The dynamics behind cinema sound are not well understood. This leads to goofs as reported in the article that follows. And it has led to a very late response, albeit a good response, from SMPTE and ISDCF to the issues that continue to
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DCI and NIST: No News Is Good News?
NIST introduced a new version of FIPS 140-2 Annex A this month. A year ago, NIST changed the same document to include reference to FIPS 186-3, an updated version of its Digital Signature Standard. The disturbing news a year ago was that
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Back to the Good Ol’ Days of 10.2 Audio
At this month's ICTA conference on cinema technology, the event planners were hard pressed to present anything new to its paying guests. So they re-visited an old topic of boothless cinema design, and invited Tom Holman of TMH to present
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