If complacency is not the friend of business, then digital technology must be its bane. Exhibitors are pitched upgrades that deliver higher frame rates, higher luminance, wide color gamut, and immersive sound, little of which provides a clear path to monetization. Rather than shell new capabilities out in bits and pieces, one might think it
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Archives for October 2015
Managing Standards
For over two years, studios have sought a single immersive sound distribution standard. The man-hours spent in standards committees in pursuit of this dream are surely worth more than any box office generated by immersive sound. The fruits of this effort, however, have started to bloom. Or possibly wither. It was determined this month that
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Keeping The Trust
The primary role of the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specification is to establish the mechanisms that define trusted devices for the playback of first release movies. Up to now, DCI has relied on the US Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 specification for the specific requirements and testing protocol of secure processing blocks, governing everything
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