Cameron’s high frame rate 3-D demo at CinemaCon, coupled with Peter Jackson’s announcement that he was shooting The Hobbit at 48fps, puts a spotlight on the future of digital cinema. High decoder bit rates, and more light, are needed to pull this off. But as stated before in this
Archives for April 2011
DCI Releases New Errata
After a two year self-imposed moratorium on changes to its spec, DCI released 26 “errata” to the DCI Specification this month. While many of these changes are clarifications or more editorial in nature, some very significant changes were made. These can be broadly classified in four areas: Elimination of the
NAB Shows Progress in Broadcast 3-D
Jim Cameron set the tone for this year’s NAB convention with a keynote address in which he announced the formation of a new company with long-time 3-D technology partner Vince Pace, called, (don’t be shocked), Cameron-Pace. In their matter-of-fact, no-hype way, both Cameron and Pace described their vision for bringing
Other News
The last SMPTE 21DC ad-hoc group meetings were held towards the end of February. The next will be held June 16. Although there is work to be done, not much has happened since the last meeting. A revision of S429-2 DCP Constraints, the core document for SMPTE DCP,