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by Pete Putman
Two news stories crossed my desk recently that perfectly illustrate the old saw “One Man’s Gain Is Another’s Man’s Loss”. The first was a summary in Media Play News of a report from Digital …
Tags:Cinema| Cinema going| Disney| Streaming Video| SVOD
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The UHD Alliance said that Amazon Prime plans to introduce support for Filmmaker mode in 2021. It also said that Hisense would be the seventh TV company to support the mode …
Tags:Cinema| UltraHD Alliance
by Andy Marken
Netflix’s Reid Hastings had the streaming stage to himself since about 2000 but it got so crowded that this year, the board “encouraged” Ted Sandaros to join him as co-CEO and the two are …
Tags:Cinema| Streaming Video| SVOD
by Bob Raikes
What They Say To make the most of the move to UltraHD, content owners have to process their catalogues to optimies for UltraHD and HDR. The pandemic has helped sales of content including Blu-ray …
Tags:Blu-ray| Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Well, it hasn’t got much to do with displays, but I was intrigued by an article that explained that to make a scene in the Christopher Nolan film “Tenet”, the team …
Tags:Cinema| Graphics Software
by Pete Putman
Back in June, a press release crossed my desk from a company called Xcinex (pronounced “scene-ex”). The release touted Venue, a new movie and streaming service with a twist: It counts the number of …
Tags:Cinema| HDMI| Pay TV| Security| TV Viewing
by Artem Alekseenko
Strong/MDI Screen Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ballantyne Strong, Inc., and a leader in projection screen manufacturing and optical coating development for cinemas, commercial venues and amusement parks worldwide (“Strong MDI”), is …
Tags:Cinema| RealD
by Matthew Brennesholtz
The “Creatives” in the motion picture industry have always taken technology, sometimes reluctantly, and used it to tell stories. Some of the technologies incorporated over the last 100 years into the cinema include sound, …
Tags:Cinema| Content Creation| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate
by Artem Alekseenko
On the occasion of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, the European Audiovisual Observatory releases its first estimates for European cinema attendance in 2019. After two years of decrease, the Observatory estimates that total …
Tags:Cinema
by Artem Alekseenko
Three leading Hollywood guilds and a key film preservation and education organization have recognized the UHD Alliance’s (UHDA) Filmmaker ModeTM as the preferred way to deliver creative intent of film and television content in …
Tags:Cinema| Philips
by Chris Chinnock
High Frame Rate or HFR, especially in a cinema setting, evokes some pretty strong emotions in people from love to hate. This debate was stirred up again recently with the release of Gemini Man, …
Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate
by Artem Alekseenko
CinemaNext, the European specialist in cinema exhibitor services, announced the successful installation of its first ILLUCITY Corner virtual reality (VR) solution for cinema exhibitors at Belgium’s Kinepolis Liège cinema. The opening comes one year …
Tags:Cinema
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