- SMPTE 21DC Technology Committee chairman change pending, following the expiration of Dave Schnuelle’s term.
- SMPTE’s High Frame Rate Study Group destined for high gear, with new co-chair Michael Karagosian.
- Cinema Audio will be the technology focus of the 10’s, and we review the various audio-related standards activities now in progress.
- Use of the standardized CSP/RPL Protocols for Closed Captions is growing.
- Security Key Management deserves re-thinking. We explore a simple solution to building industry-wide automation of KDM delivery.
- The impact posed by last year’s upgrade by NIST of FIPS 140-2 is luckily on path for a smooth landing.
- DCinema Alliance of the Philippines announced the signing of digital cinema deployment agreements.
- Barco announced the installation of its Auro-3D system in the US.
- A software upgrade from Christie Digital was approved by DCI, meaning that the addition of high frame rate features did not break DCI functionality.