Is Dolby Taking It's Pages From Microsoft’s Book? There are better strategies to follow.
The Argument for Object-Based Audio is better than you may think.
It's the Morning After for High Frame Rates. Having second
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Archives for December 2012
Dolby Taking It’s Pages From Microsoft’s Book?
Both Dolby and Microsoft bet big on major technology innovations in 2012. The similarities don't stop there.
In case you've been living in a cave, Microsoft hasn't been doing very well with its latest moves. The company tried to solve
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The Argument for Object-Based Audio
The history of cinema is ripe with experimentation in cinema sound. Most all cinema sound system designs focus on locating point sources for sound in the auditorium. Thirty years ago, Ioan Allen of Dolby drove the horseshoe surround array
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High Frame Rates: The Morning After
After a year of panic-driven preparation for the exhibition of the HFR 3D version of Hobbit, the industry must now ask itself why. Warner limited the HFR 3D footprint to approximately 1000 screens worldwide. Although it was prepared to
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Another Year Without SMPTE DCP
The SMPTE DCP standards were completed in 2009, four years after the VPF-driven digital cinema rollout began. To enable distribution, early versions of the SMPTE documents were used to create an intermediate "Interop" format. It was
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