Marty Banks puts science to 3-D discomfort mechanisms. Technicolor, Deluxe, and Cinedigm…it’s a wrap! DCI tests…and now it retests. SMPTE is getting its work done. A status report. ISDCF dives into higher frame rates. If Anti-Piracy is important, then who will pay for it? Marcus goes digital, and Norway fully converts. Michael
Archives for July 2011
Marty Bank Puts Science to Stereoscopic 3-D Discomfort
The popularity of 3-D movies has brought attention to the Vision Science Program at UC Berkeley, led by Marty Banks. A majority of research in the affects of stereoscopic imagery on vision has its roots with this program, including the work of Simon Watt of University of Bangor in Wales
Technicolor Cuts Deals with Deluxe and Cinedigm, Deluxe Steals Exec
US digital screens passed the 50% point this month, crossing a major milestone in the conversion to digital projection. Not the best of news for Technicolor and Deluxe, who are losing business for their film services divisions more rapidly than expected. Sadly commemorating the milestone, the two companies pushed
DCI’s New Retesting Policy
Once of the challenges of the DCI specification is to insure that products continue to comply over time. Those familiar with the deployment agreements of a certain studio know of the requirement to retest equipment after each software or hardware upgrade. Given that software updates occur frequently, such requests are