Competition in the fulfillment space can be brutal, as studios push hard to squeeze cost out of the process. A service that is often coupled with fulfillment is that of content mastering, whose deliverable is the digital cinema package, or
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The Projection Booth
Digital cinema equipment is anything but mature. Early equipment architectures were not original, based on a standalone server and a standalone projector. Texas Instruments had the option early on to include media block functionality in
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DCI Compliance and its Future with NIST
This publication has dealt extensively with the issue of DCI compliance and the issues imposed by changes in the NIST FIPS 140 security requirements. While NIST updated most of the FIPS 140-2 Annex documents in November, it didn't provide
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Deployment Entities and the Transition
When the raising the newly minted subject of virtual print fees (VPFs) in a breakfast meeting with a former studio executive in 2005, the spontaneous comment evoked was "history has shown that subsidies do not work." But subsidies combined
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Executive Summary
SMPTE Update. Document amendments rule, and SMPTE DCP will get some tweaks.
ISDCF holds its virtual plugfest, and undertakes 16-channel Interop DCP audio.
DCI and NIST Update.
The Accessibility Gap between distributors
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