Interest is Growing in Object-Based Audio, with outreach from MPEG and NATO. Could Cinema Audio Be All Wrong? The saga continues. 3D Glasses Could Be Back on the Table. You knew it would. Other News: MPAA decides to forgo anti-piracy legislation in favor of controls to limit ad revenue to pirate
Archives for February 2013
The Interest in Object-Based Audio is Growing
A prediction made a few years ago in this publication is that this would be the decade for sound in cinema. It wasn’t that hard of a prediction, given that the prior decade was focused on picture, and after picture, there’s…well… sound. What wasn’t easy to predict as digital
Is Cinema Audio All Wrong?
Over the past several years, SMPTE has been engaged in studies of cinema audio. For over a year, a Study Group was conducted to review B-Chain alignment in cinema. This year, a new working group was formed to further this work, and presumably form standards. Most worrisome is
3D Glasses…or Not
3D cinema in the US is positioned for a shakeup. Only in the US do studios pay for the polarized glasses used in cinemas for systems such as RealD and MasterImage. Not surprisingly, they have managed to limit their generosity to the polarized variety, leaving exhibitors having 3D products