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May 13, 2012

Emerging Media Technologies

Delegates from 20 countries are sipping their coffees, ready to start deliberating on the future of our industry and how developing technologies will drive it. A dense... Read More
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April 16, 2012

TSC: From Cinemaplex to Googleplex?

Will we see a day when the cinema audience is asked to turn their phones on rather than off? That was the controversial blue sky topic at a session devoted to enhancing... Read More
April 16, 2012

F65 Short "Eldorado" Premieres At The TSC

Eldorado—a new 8-minutes short film fromCurtis Clark, ASC, which was lensed with Sony’s F65 camera, was presented Sunday at the NAB’s Technology Summit on Cinema,... Read More
April 16, 2012

TSC: Digital Cinema Standards Update

John Hurst, CTO, CineCert highlighted a number of current SMPTE activities in standards for Digital Cinema, during the NAB's Technology Summit on Cinema co-produced with... Read More
April 15, 2012

LEDs: Much more than meets the eyes

LED lighting technology is being deployed at pace in broadcast studios, and increasingly for feature film with the promise of significantly reduced running costs, yet the... Read More
April 15, 2012

TSC: AMPAS SciTech Council Talks LED, ACES, Preservation

During the first day of the NAB Show's Technology Summit on Cinema, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council gave a comprehensive... Read More
April 15, 2012

TSC Opens With Digital Cinema Deployment Update

Fifty. That is the number of standards published by SMPTE this past year, reported SMPTE Executive DirectorBarbara Langeat the opening of the NAB Show’s Technology Summit... Read More
October 27, 2011

SMPTE Members Honored

SMPTE Fellow Andy Setos received the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, Wednesday night during the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 2011 Engineering Awards. Read More
April 11, 2011

Trumbull Tackles Higher Frame Rates

Continuing James Cameron’s dialog about higher frame rates, Douglas Trumbull, the inventor of ShowScan, delivered a keynote at the DCS during which he suggested that when it... Read More
April 11, 2011

2011 DCS Opens in Las Vegas

SMPTE president and Sony exec Peter Lude opened the DCS 2011, “Advances in image and sound: 3D, 4K and Beyond,” explaining “we are trying to extend this beyond cinema, though... Read More
April 10, 2011

First Images From Sony Prototype 4K Camera Screened at DCS

The Arrival, a short lensed with a prototype of Sony’s new digital cinematography camera that is capable of recording 16-bit 4K and higher, got a lot of interest when it was... Read More
April 10, 2011

DCS Explores IIF and Greater Bit Depth

Bill Bennett, ASC opened a morning session titled “Better Pixels from Greater Bit Depth,” during the DCS with a series of beautiful images that he shot 12-bit with the ARRI... Read More
April 9, 2011

Streather Emphasizes Need for 3D Training Courses

“I find it astonishing that there is no permanent 3D training course at any film school in the UK,” said Phil Streather, CEO of UK production company Principal Large Format,... Read More
April 9, 2011

Sky Accelerates 3D Program Production

British payTV satellite broadcaster BSkyB launched the world’s first 3DTV channel last October. Already Sky 3D has amassed 70,000 subscriptions, half of the estimated total... Read More
February 7, 2011

Multi-camera HD mobile capture system

My last big project here at the UK's University of Surrey was fitting out a bluescreen motion-capture studio with eight Thomson Viper cameras, together with timecode and... Read More
October 28, 2010

Cowan Explores 3D In The Home

RealD’s Matt Cowan explored the future of 3D in the home, addressing consumer trends and technology challenges. Read More
October 28, 2010

A Mobile DTV Status Report

Kicking off the “Video on the Go” session, Jerry Whitaker offer a look at ATSC Mobile DTV. “It is TV on the move,” he said. “It is real, and it is out there. It is a new way... Read More
October 28, 2010

SMPTE to Honor Luminaries at Tonight's Banquet

From a director who help pioneer a new style of filmmaking to a technologist whose work laid the foundation for high-definition television, SMPTE will celebrate more than 30... Read More
October 28, 2010

You Want That 3D Channel On Air When?

Are SMPTE members ready for 3D distribution? The topic was addressed during a Wednesday afternoon session. Read More
October 28, 2010

2D-to-3D Conversion: Identifying the Good and the Bad

SMPTE put the 2D-to-3D conversion process under a microscope Thursday, during a session that explored how to identify good and bad 3D, and examined various conversion... Read More
October 28, 2010

SMPTE Honors New Fellows

SMPTE honored its newly-named SMPTE Fellows today during a luncheon. Read More
October 27, 2010

Recognizing and Correcting Common 3D Problems

As part of Wednesday’s 3D program, 3Ality’s Howard Postley discussed how to identify and correct common problems with the format. “Nausea and headaches are not inherit in 3D,... Read More

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