Monday, March 30, 2009
"Present Theme: Digital Cinema"
My articles for the past highlighed the primitive beginnings of motion picture technology, starting at the very basics of persistance of motion, all the way to the first modern 24p film camera. Currently, the film industry is in the middle of several huge transitions. One is the transition from recordring to celluiod film stock to recording straight to hard drive. Second, is the transition from flatbed editing systems to non-linear computer editing workstations. Finally, the way in which films are shown in theaters are going through a digital transition, as more and more theaters are being outfitted with digital projectors, projecting films at 2K-4k resolutions (2-4x the quality of 1080p HDTV). The devices and software show in the following posts will be based around these important transitions.
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The digital age should be here soon. They keep putting it off. I wonder what that will do to the movie theater. Movies cost so much now, I can only imagine that with the theaters going digital the cost will only rise more than the normal yearly percentage increase.
ReplyDeleteit's here and we are so not ready for it
ReplyDeletethe digital age we need to get caught up