With a heading like that, it would seem there’s not much else to say. But there’s always a story to tell. Harold Hallikainen (USL) and Sripal Mehta (Dolby) were the collaborators and authors of the CSP/RPL protocol, developed to support the display of closed caption text in the DCP by enabling the interoperability of digital
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Archives for September 2015
RealD Pulls Wool Over IPR
In one of the more clever spins in the art of the press release, RealD publicly declared on September 28: “In another decisive legal victory for RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD), the U.S. Patent Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) threw out the final two challenges to RealD patents.” To those unfamiliar with the spat between
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The Complication Behind HDR
High Dynamic Range (HDR) was the hot topic at IBC in Amsterdam this year. But as visually exciting as HDR can be, there are a lot of checkpoints along the way that block progress and could interfere with the speed of adoption. HDR refers to the extended range of light possible in the image. It
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Getting Accessibility Right
The DCP is designed to carry closed caption text. Every digital cinema media block knows what to do with it. The technology that connects the closed caption text with third-party closed caption displays is open and ready to use in digital cinema media blocks. It’s this high degree of availability and interoperability that enabled the
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