Barco gave the first big public demonstration of 4K at ShowEast in the nearby Downtown Disney AMC theatre. It was one of those times where one is reminded that Texas Instruments is a chip manufacturer, not a projector manufacturer. To
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Google TV and Piracy
It's interesting to see how product manufacturers envision their customers. The traditional high-end home entertainment center has a central preamp or switching center into which plugs every component that the customer buys, including
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Watermarks and Audio
The value of forensic marks, often simply referred to as watermarks, is that they can identify where the content last was. If a pirated copy is captured, its marks will show where the content was last viewed. So to be useful, the marks
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Where Are The Closed Captions?
It takes considerable effort to distribute accessible content in time for opening night. Distribution executives have to goad their production counterparts to not make that last minute edit. Time is needed to create and assemble HI and
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Other News
ISDCF canceled its November 18 Plugfest and will instead hold a “virtual” plugfest. Date conflicts and difficulty in booking a screening room have caused this change. The virtual plugfest is taking place on the iPath reflector, limited
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