The higher contrast and more lifelike imagery of high dynamic range displays are getting the attention of the press. They are also likely to get the attention of the consumer. Although it will take a few years for this new technology to work its way across the general population, HDR could cause a change in
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Archives for November 2015
The Wheel of Cinema Sound
In the 90’s, a handful of digital audio on-film and with-film technologies emerged, all capable of reproducing 5.1 sound. The surprising part is that, regardless of the fact that they all used the same amps and speakers, at least three non-interoperable methods of distributing sound tracks proliferated. For sound mixers, this didn’t pose a problem,
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NIST Considering Move To ISO/IEC Security Standard
The primary value of the DCI specification for digital cinema is security. DCI devotes nearly half of its 155 page document to the subject of security, specifying in great detail how the various elements in a digital cinema system are to be constructed and how they must behave from a security point-of-view. A cornerstone of
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