One of the lesser known concepts proposed for immersive sound is that of the “reference renderer.” At first blush, it sounds like a blueprint that would allow anyone to build an immersive sound rendering engine, such as Atmos. That would be an extremely unlikely outcome, however. A renderer is complex. The quality of a rendering
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Archives for May 2015
Understanding High Dynamic Range
Disney’s Tomorrowland opened at Disney’s El Capitan theatre in Hollywood this month, in Dolby Vision. This is the first opportunity given the general public to see a movie produced in EDR (Dolby’s preferred term for High Dynamic Range, or HDR) on the Dolby Vision laser projector. It is the start of a new trend in
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Paying for Next Generation Cinema With Quality
There are lots of questions surrounding next generation cinema, the one least discussed is how to pay for it. With laser projectors selling at sky-high prices, immersive sound systems costing several times that of a regular projector, and exhibitors leveraged to the hilt, financing new cinema technology purchases is becoming more challenging. To manage this
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