Cellphone Motion Picture Technology: Part 3

As cellphones increase their power, it is only a matter of time before professional applications leak down onto these devices. Apple's iPhone is a prime target for such devices, as Apple computers are used by many professionals in the arts. There have been demo applications of DigiDesign's famous Pro Tools that have been created for usage of the iPhone, which would be a great tool for music producers who are trying to mike a setup in a studio.



Furthermore, there have been hidden code in Apple's latest iPhone 3.0 Beta release that are evident that a video editing application is being created for the iPhone platform. Most likely this will be a simple application like a Mobile iMove, though the future will most likely have a Final Cut Mobile running on an iPhone. A quick and easy tool like that would be a director and editors best friend, as it would allow them to quickly browse through their footage and cut out any of the bad takes before returning to their main workstation.

LCD, Plasma and now OLED

OLED (Organic light-emitting diode), is a display technology using man-made, carbon-based molecules that emit light when charged with electricity. What seperates the OLED from the LCD or Plasma, are the components that produce the picture on the screen. The prototypes of an OLED are as thin as a credit card because the pixels are able to produce their own light with nothing behind the screen. With LCD's you need either a fluorescent or LED lamp to illuminate the pixels, and Plasma's need compartments of electrically charged gas. OLED's are all around better than the existing LCD's and Plasma's but will come at a higher cost. The release date is set for 2012.

500 Movies on One Disc!

General Electric believes that in the near future we will be able to store 500 of your very own favorite movies onto one single disc. Regular CD's, DVD's, and Blu-ray discs only use one dimension, but GE's holographic data storage adds two more dimensions to the information. This allows us the ability to store more information onto one disc. To read more about this new technology click on the link below.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518118,00.html

Movie Renting in the Future...

We have already seen many of the smaller video stores close up and now we are seeing the bigger ones doing the same. Today many people are finding better ways to rent movies like Netflicks, RedBox, and movies on demand. Eventually Redbox will not exist because in the future everyone will be able to easily download movies right to their televisions either by On Demand or Netflix. This means DVD players will not be needed in the future. We are seeing this already starting now, but in the future everyone will browsing the list of movies on demand and you wont see any video stores around. It will be like video stores never existed.

Mini Laptop

Struggling to carry around your big bulky laptop? Then why don't you try out the new and improved super mini laptop, brought to you by a Korean company UMID. As you can see from the pictures, it's as small as a cell phone and weighs in a little over a half a pound. It comes equiped with 1.33GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and up to 32GB of storage. There's no doubt in my mind that at some point in the future we will be done with laptops and be completley converted to the mini laptop.

Fireworks!

Fireworks have been around for centuries and have only gotten cooler. This is an art limited to a few people only because this business you need to be an expert, and know the experts. If you started up your own fireworks company, you'd most likely fail, or blow yourself up--good luck. Two families that stake claim as being the "first" in fire works are the Zambelli family and the Grucci family, both have a crazy list of credentials.

From the original Chinese recipe where gun power was shot into the air and then exploded to the secretly guarded family recipe’s that are responsible for miraculous chandelier effects and other numerous shapes that we’re surprised by year after year. In America, its become a summertime tradition and used anytime to celebrate.

Today we find fireworks at amusement parks at closing time, sporting events, festivals, concerts, and holidays—notably New Years and July4th. It isn’t uncommon to have a pyrotechnic display set to a sound track, to add an audio dimension to the luminous visual display. The complexities continue to grow 7 the competition is fierce by being so limited. However that’s only to benefit us who just watch the mid-night madness of fireworks.

Hot New Toys

What is going on with toys these days? It seems they are under the mystical power of an evil wizard with all of the lights and sounds and the things that they project. What happened to a wooden/ plastic/ or metal frame with two axels and four wheels that make a car, thats just not good enough now. Just to get a toy to work--well lets getting it out of the box where you will already have to own a plasma torch to rip it from the grips of those crazy twisty ties. The packaging for these things is absurd, no wonder 99% of material we purchase is thrown away in 6months.

To operate the contraption you'll need some sort of activation code which you can purchase online for an additional fee, otherwise, its a fancy lookin block with wheels (or another feature) except more expencive and more like to break...

Who knows what crazy robot or virual reality device is going to find its way into the corners of living toy stockpile or in the catacombs of basebent toyboxes left unused to collect dust...

Where are the Comic Books

The most awesome characteristic of a comic book is its sheer amount of imagination! There is a credible literary element and a vibrant visual element also, you cannot lack creativity and have a successful comic book. But are they becoming obsolete? There are countless movies today based on comic books, Batman, Superman, X-men, you name it there's been a movie in the past decade or so. This begs the question, are movie makers losing their creativity & stealing the work—via licensing agreement—or is this the way these characters are going to be introduced to the next generation?.

This is an intriguing thought as an entire archetype of people, the nerd-oaf who frequents the comic book store ran by the archetypical fat, long hair, bearded guy we see on the Simpsons has to merge or adapt.

ARTICLE: http://comics.ign.com/articles/629/629984p1.html

Lost in Transmission

Lost in Transmission By Michael Endelman
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1117175,00.html

This is an interesting articing pointing out some of the affects of the numerous commercials and repeated play of songs on the top FM radio stations. In additions to the same song always being on and commercials, there ar other problems not always noticed directly by the audiance, such as payola (pay to play) where labels bride stations to play songs, hence we hear them all the time. Below are a few excerpts for you to check out that i found pertinant.. the article is quite long

Mark Wallace a 23-year-old graphic designer from Quinby, Va., loves music, but he couldn't be less interested in what's available on the airwaves these days. ''I can't even remember the last time I listened to FM radio,'' he says. His complaints? ''The annoying ads and those constant repeats. And if you change the channel, you just hear the same song on another station.''

A typical Top 40 station has a total playlist of fewer than 200 songs — less than halfof what it was a decade ago. the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which led to a huge consolidation of radio holdings. ''Consolidation has led to increased homogenization of what gets played,'' says FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. ''It's harder for local and new artists to get on the air. labels are bribing stations to get records on the radio.

The Future Role of Gaming Systems

"Games have the potential to subsume almost all other forms of entertainment media. They can tell us stories, offer us music, give us challenges, allow us to communicate and interact with others, encourage us to make things, connect us to new communities, and let us play." - Will Wright, game designer and creator of the Sims franchise

It is increasingly clear that games and interactive technology will be driving the way people consume content in the future. Each year the medium is taking a rising share of consumer time and wallet from traditional media. Games are becoming an engine for creating new global entertainment franchises with crossover properties in film, TV, and the Internet. In short, games are redefining the boundaries of entertainment.

Some facts:
PWC projects the worldwide video game market is projected to become a $46 billion market in 2010, with the overall fastest growth in the US of all entertainment markets

More than 8 million people around the world are paying $10-15 per month to play World of Warcraft. The average player spends more than 20 hours a week in the game world

More than 100 million PlayStation 2 consoles have been sold worldwide

Over 5 million subscribers can access 1000 hours of video content from CBS, MTV, Warner Bros, TBS, Lions Gate, and Paramount on Xbox Live
Current and future leaders in the entertainment industry will need to be familiar with this ascendant medium. Our panelists will help us understand the following key issues:

Entrepreneurial opportunities in games

Convergence of games, animation, film/TV

Managing creative teams

New forms of gameplay

THe key thing to take into account here, ina holistic sense is that with the more technology we have available, then more mediums will become available for use. Gaming systems, and cell phone do many of the same thing. You can play video games on a phone, right? And you can have conversation via video game systems, with as good, or better quality than actual phones & may invlove numerous people--puts the 3-way connection to shame.

Future Concerts

(Picture taken from Flikr.com)

I’m sure you all heard of the Hannah Montana 3D concert movie and also the Jonas Brothers 3D Concert movie. If you haven’t basically they turned the live concerts into a 3D movie. All the concerts were sold out and showings in the first week in theaters were sold out or close to being sold out. In future years I believe more music artists will too turn their concerts into movies. This would allow many people to see sold out concerts on the big screen. Also it would allow people that cannot afford to buy tickets to the live concerts. The down side is you don’t get the feel of being at a live concert. Will ticket sales of the live concerts go down?

HD Cellphones: The Final Chapter

Finally, there needs to be a way in order to get the HD content off of the phone and onto a HDTV. Usually, cumbersome cables are involved in this process, creating quite a mess as people are stepping over cables, and one has to be right in front of the TV so that the cable can reach both devices. That impractical setup will be a thing of the past within the next three to four years, as wireless HD technology works it's way into mobile devies and HDTV sets. This technology will allow for one of just have their phone in range of the HDTV set, and would wirelessly stream the footage to the set without the need of cables.

This is the final step for complete autonomy in HD cellphones. The ability to shoot, edit, and wirelessly stream the HD content onto other devices could be a paradigm shift for consumers within the next 10 to 15 years.

HD Cellphones: Part 2

A good quality picture on a camera is directly tied to (on a digital camera) the sensor, as well as the lens being used. Most small camera's that are on cellphones and other mobile devices are not equipped with powerful lenses like those on regular cameras. Several years ago, a company patented a type of cellphone lens that used no power, and could function like the human eye, though it never reached production, though I feel this technology is due for a breakthrough within the next few years. It can zoom and auto focus, features that are DESPERATELY needed in order to create decent video recordings on cellular phones.

HD Cellphones: Part One

Cellular phones have proliferated as wonderful convergence devices. In reality, cell phones are not phones, especially in terms of smart phones (Blackberry, iPhone, Palm Pre), they are computers that can place calls over wireless cellular internet. As an iPhone user, I can attest that the phone program is the weakest feature of the device, which is quite ironic. As these devices become even more and more homogenized and converged, there will be a lessening demand for the other dedicated prodcuts. The first way in which cellphones will do this to pocketable HD camcorders is through the future advacement of small HD camera sensors that will be imbeded into these smartphones. Development has already began on the incorportation of 12MP (megapixel) sensors capable of 720p HD playback. Having the ability for HD playback is the first step towards being able to record that quality video on mobile devices

the future!

the future of motion picture technology will be influenced by the proliferation of HD capable cell phones, both in terms of recording and playback.(and due to that this entire blog post is being composed on my iPhone via text message). as cell phone camera sensors become more and more powerful they could rise up and overtake the market space of dedicated camcorders, at least for the average consumer. Another trend of the future is the distribution of mot ion pictures, which is more of a short-term look ahead of what Comcast in plans for newly released films. Finally, the increasing reality of CGI technology will eventually lead to completely photo-realistic visuals that will make it difficult to discern whether the movie they are watching is animated or not.

More posts will follow shortly...

--kane

(this message was originally texted to blogger, but it arrived in split up messages, so I do not recommend the text message method for posting!)

Ultra-thin LCD TV of the future!

Sharp, a TV manufacturer designed a new LCD TV in Japan. This prototype only needs one cable and that is for the power. Overall I think this TV is really nice. It’s hard to think that it is only 2cm thick. The only problem with it I see is that the signal can be a cut off if something gets in its way, so it might be difficult with little kids. Watch the video and check it out!

Digital Cinema: Hard Drives replacing Film Reels

The digital media revolution is just now hitting cinemas around the county, as slowly, but surely, these facilities replace the old film projectors with the state of the art 2K and 4K digital cinema projectors. Powered by Texas Instrumetns DLP technology, these projector systems can display uncompressed digital files of films in quality that is 2-4 times more clear than standard HDTV, as well as in 3D. The setup also replaces the need for intricate and bulky film reels, as the films are stored on hard drives or optical media (Blu-Ray discs or other high capacity optical discs). The chance for these files to fall into the wrong hands still is a risk, though there lies the possiblity of using the Internet to transfer the films to the projector system. However, that probably will not happen for sometime as current Internet speeds would make that quite a time consuming process.

Here are articles on recent digital cinema progress as well as a presentation by Sony on their 3D 4K resolution digital cinema projectors.

Film Editing: Non-Lnear Editing Systems

The expanding power and flexibility of modern computers has allowed for the video editing process to transition from using a flatbed (physically cutting and pasting the footage) to using a relatively inexpensive computer and editing software. While these technologies have been available to the professional market for over decade, a market has opened up for professional level editing software running on consumer-grade equipment, opening up the creative field of video editing to more people. The most popular editing software for its abundance of features to its realatively small price is Apple's Final Cut Studio. Attached is a link to the site and the services that Final Cut offers for video editors.

The Future Games Systems

There has been so many game systems throughout the years. Everytime a new one comes out its hard to think what will they come out with next. This is a video of different ideas of future game systems.