The independent market in Australia faces a messy situation as VPF deals are contested in court by commercial operators. DCDC is back, and we’re left to wonder why. Cameron upstages Showscan with 60fps 3-D. “Hops” jumped into closed caption interoperability issues. NIST/FIPS update points to how studio behavior for security will differ from government behavior.
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Archives for March 2011
Independently Upset Down Under
As the saying goes, “good ideas are a dime a dozen.” The theme has played out in countless circles, most recently amplified by the story surrounding the founding of Facebook, where Zuckerberg successfully executed an idea that supposedly originated with the Winklevoss twins. The moral of the story:
Cameron, Showscan, and 3-D
Like an old Beatle’s tune re-recorded by a new artist, it can be hard to convince a younger generation that a seemingly new brilliant idea is really an old one in disguise. Jim Cameron’s magic trick at CinemaCon was to show 48 and 60 frame-per-second content to convention attendees, following in
“Hop” and Closed Captions
ISDCF has been active in testing the SMPTE DCP distribution format, both the packaging of compositions and its playback in systems. With interoperability established with picture and sound, a major focus of testing has been subtitles and captions, both open and closed. No testing of Interop DCP has taken