Cinema is accustomed to a high degree of differentiation to home entertainment through technology. But this is rapidly changing. UHD for home includes 4K and the Rec 2020 color space, which is more inclusive than DCI P3 of Pointer’s gamut of real world reflected colors. Even home entertainment security is improving thanks to the efforts
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Archives for June 2016
Direct LED Impresses (Again) At Infocomm
Last year Infocomm impressed with the advancements in direct LED wall displays. There is a lot to like. Very high resolution, wide color gamut, saturated colors, deep blacks, high peak whites, and high dynamic range are qualities that can be difficult with projectors but come easily to this technology. This year’s Infocomm indicated that more
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How To Create Better Cinema Standards
Historically, cinema standards were created after the fact. In fact, they weren’t called standards. The earliest collaborative cinema document from SMPTE is an Engineering Guideline dating back to the late 70’s. In the 80’s, SMPTE moved on to publish Recommended Practices, and only began to jointly publish standards with ANSI in the late 80’s. These
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