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October 21, 2014

ETIA 2014 is Underway!

Bernd Girod kicks off ETIA 2014 We're underway here on the gorgeous Stanford Campus, for ETIA 2014. This year's event is appropriately hosted in the Huang Engineering... Read More
October 21, 2014

Piracy and Entertainment business models

Industry veterans discuss the best wayto monetize content over digital media Allan McLennan led a panel discussing how data and technology can provide compelling business... Read More
October 21, 2014

Getting traditional content ready for the web

Martin Wahl explains how the Olympics were webcast Everyone agrees that web-based streaming is the fastest growing segment of the digital entertainment market, but that... Read More
October 21, 2014

Tackling the challenges of providing Sports Live over the Internet

Jim DeFilippis explains the challenges of streaming the Olympics Live events are one of the big money makers for the entertainment industry, and none are bigger than sports... Read More
October 21, 2014

Why is the advertising industry interested in SMPTE standards?

This is a question that has plagued me for the past 7 years, since I attended my first SMPTE meeting at Turner in Atlanta. I can still recall the look from one member when... Read More
October 21, 2014

HPA Day opens SMPTE

The marriage of SMPTE and HPA was celebrated today, with the launch of a day-long HPA symposium devoted to "Making Do with More." Held at the historic El Capitan movie palace... Read More
October 21, 2014

Listen Up! Immersive Sound at HPA Symposium

Moderated by post/production executive Sara Duran-Singer, The Sound Man Dennis Baxter, mixer David Fluhr, Fraunhofer Institute's Hanne Stenzel, and Technicolor's Ben Wilkins... Read More
October 21, 2014

Looking at 4K, HFR and HDR

HPA Tech Retreat organizer and engineering guru Mark Schubin addressed 4K, HFR and HDR, from physiological, physics and perception points of view with the question: Is more... Read More
October 21, 2014

Testing on-screen resolution and frame rate tests

With Loren Nielsen moderating, Deluxe's Stephen Ferguson and cinematographer Dave Stump, ASC led a session that gave the audience a chance to take a close-up look at high... Read More
October 21, 2014

Networked media in the facility - Part 1

Much of the conversation and presentations on Tuesday were devoted to the networked facility. Jan Eveleens, CEO of Axon in the Netherlands, discussed the IEEE Ethernet AVB... Read More
Featured
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April 9, 2013

Jon Landau Highlights Technology Summit on Cinema

A conversation with Oscar winning producer Jon Landau highlighted the NAB Technology Summit on Cinema, co-produced by SMPTE. The Sunday session was moderated by Variety's ... Read More
News
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April 9, 2013

SMPTE Launches Centennial Predict-the-Future Contest

SMPTE Executive DirectorBarbara Langeannounced the launch of the Society’s Centennial Predict-the-Future Contest, Sunday at the NAB Technology Summit on Cinema, co-produced... Read More
HD
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April 9, 2013

Technology Summit on Cinema Discusses "Tidal Wave of Pixels"

“It will be as easy to do an 8K show a decade from now as it is to do 2K HD production now,” predicted Jim Houston, Principal, Starwatcher Digital, though it is also clear... Read More
3D
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April 7, 2013

Sandrew Discusses the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 3D Conversion

Conversion is maturing, stated Legend3D FounderBarry Sandrew, Saturday at the Technology Summit on Cinema. “It offers filmmakers a dynamic creative canvas for creating 3D... Read More
HD
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April 7, 2013

SMPTE Examines Distributed Postproduction for Cinema

Postproduction workflows are evolving from a localized, tightly integrated and highly controlled process to one where production and post may occur collaboratively and with... Read More
3D
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April 7, 2013

SMPTE Eyeing Standards for Immersive Audio, HFRs

Emerging immersive audio is now firmly on SMPTE's agenda. In an overview of the activities being undertaken by the newly established Technology Committee on Digital Sound... Read More
High Frame Rates
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December 23, 2012

SMPTE Conference day 1; “Less like film – more like nature”

The 2012 SMPTE opened on Monday 22 October 20 with its pre-conference symposium on ‘high frame rates for digital cinema’. Saying that higher frame rates is a ‘good thing’ is,... Read More
APRS
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December 6, 2012

SMPTE Member, Eddie Veale Receives a Sound Fellowship from Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS)

Pioneer of the first professional home recording studio, acoustic consultant and designer Eddie Veale has been recognized for his contribution to the world of audio, as he... Read More
AES
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October 26, 2012

Tech Committee Focused on Cinema Sound

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Brian Vessa provided an overview of the work of SMPTE’s B-chain study group and urged participation in the resulting technical committee, 25CSS,... Read More
UHD
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October 26, 2012

The picture tells the story at SMPTE?

On the last afternoon of the SMPTE Conference, an interesting insight into the practicality of UHD-1 (aka 4k or Ultra-HD) came from a French consortium of companies, the... Read More
Multiscreen
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October 26, 2012

Pirates of the Olympics?

The Olympics had a dedicated session on the last day at the SMPTE conference. This blogger reported on the 3D coverage in an earlier blog, but other interesting issues came... Read More
October 25, 2012

A little bit more on clouds and stuff...

As the last blog explains, if you’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, you would have enjoyed the whole half day of presentations about them. There are evangelists for... Read More
Cloud
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October 25, 2012

A Cloudspotter’s Guide To Migration

“This is big business, and if we think we are the tail wagging the dog. We are wrong,” Al Kovalick (Media Systems Consulting) said of the cloud. Read More
3D
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October 25, 2012

In close and personal – the 3D Olympics

3D is certainly alive! There were many interesting presentations on 3DTV, but none more so than Jim DeFilippis’ presentation on 3D at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Just nine... Read More

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