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Update: CinemaCon/SMPTE/NAB 2014

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CinemaCon has placed their Schedule of Events Online.

2014 Schedule of Events – CinemaCon — Celebrating the Moviegoing Experience

March 24-27 – CinemaCon — March 24 – 27 (Monday thru Thursday)

SMPTE/NAB Technology Summit On Cinema April 5 and 6 (Saturday and Sunday before the NAB Exhibits open.

NAB Show — Exhibits April 7 – 10; Monday thru Thursday

Yes, this is a reversal from previous years. Somewhat the same time spans though. If one were to go to the CinemaCon, leaving Thursday, there would be 9 days before getting morning cakes and coffee and sitting for 2 days through several excellent SMPTE presentations.

There was a time when this event was the place for everyone to get caught up to the current methods that the digital cinema industry was developing and using to go from 100 to 1,000 to 10,000 installed systems. In a lot of regards it was catch and patch can. But for the last few years it has been more pointedly scientific reports on how to get to the next level, that level that is beyond the idiosyncratic 24 frame movie. It is hard to predict from the agenda how it could be better than the seminars of the last 2 years.

Meanwhile, CinemaCon gets to celebrate another year of record income and what looks like another good year following.

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Security Updates; Warning Warning Warning Office and XP Users

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But some of the Firefox Add-Ons are pretty cool. What appeals to one may not appeal to others, but I am certain there is something for everyone.

 

The info about CinemaCon is about to start coming fast and furious. As always, it will be at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas…this year on March 24-27, with the trade show from the 25th. The program is otherwise not set, so the best link is: Sign up for Updates

This year the dates of NAB are April 5 – 10, with exhibits starting on the 7th. One presumes that the SMPTE/NAB Cinema event – often the coolest event of the year – will be on the weekend of the 5th and 6th.

Your DCinemaTools.com staff is busy putting the finishing touches on the Digital eXperience Guardian from Digital Test Tools, LLC. This is more than distracting. We are also spending a lot of time on SMPTE study groups and a committee or two. This is highly provocative and recommended for all.

By the way, MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK ADOBE PREFERENCES when you update. They have the audacity to change them, so if you prohibit Adobe from storing data on your site, they will change that back to Allow.

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Security Updates; Warning Warning Warning Office and XP Users

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But some of the Firefox Add-Ons are pretty cool. What appeals to one may not appeal to others, but I am certain there is something for everyone.

 

The info about CinemaCon is about to start coming fast and furious. As always, it will be at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas…this year on March 24-27, with the trade show from the 25th. The program is otherwise not set, so the best link is: Sign up for Updates

This year the dates of NAB are April 5 – 10, with exhibits starting on the 7th. One presumes that the SMPTE/NAB Cinema event – often the coolest event of the year – will be on the weekend of the 5th and 6th.

Your DCinemaTools.com staff is busy putting the finishing touches on the Digital eXperience Guardian from Digital Test Tools, LLC. This is more than distracting. We are also spending a lot of time on SMPTE study groups and a committee or two. This is highly provocative and recommended for all.

By the way, MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK ADOBE PREFERENCES when you update. They have the audacity to change them, so if you prohibit Adobe from storing data on your site, they will change that back to Allow.

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Excellent 3D Presentations of Ray Zone – RIP

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Conference and Exhibition

The World’s Premier Conference for 3D Innovation

 
 

vale Ray Zone

The chairs and committee of the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference wish to recognize the contributions of 3D author and historian Ray Zone, who passed away last week.

We have read the many heartfelt and warm reports of Ray’s impact on and contributions to our stereoscopic 3D community.  It is clear that Ray was an inspiration to many in the 3D community.  He was warm and generous and always happy to share his vast knowledge with newcomers as well as with fellow experts.  He will be acutely missed and remembered in the years to come.

As a tribute to Ray’s accomplishments in the world of stereoscopic 3D, the SD&A conference, SPIE and IS&T, have made available three items to help us remember Ray:

–          A short candid 3D video of Ray at the _1992_ SD&A conference filmed by David Starkman.  The video is available on YouTube3D here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFCryWZtXM

–          Then we can fast-forward 20 years to the _2012_ SD&A conference this past January to witness Ray’s conference presentation “Thinking in Z-Space: Flatness and Spatial Narrativity”
http://river-valley.tv/thinking-in-z-space-flatness-and-spatial-narrativity/
At the beginning of the video you can hear Ray saying “I’ve been coming to this conference now for 20 years on and off and it’s a joy to be here” – it’s not often that there is video evidence of that 20 year involvement!

–          Finally, SPIE Press has kindly provided open access to Ray’s two published papers that were presented at the SD&A conference in 1996 and 2012.
The papers are: 
Ray Zone (2012) “Thinking in Z-Space: Flatness and Spatial Narrativity”
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1282677
and
Ray Zone (1996) “Deep image: 3D in art and science” (Keynote Presentation)
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1013971
These papers will remain open access until the end of February.

You may also wish to visit his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Zone

We hope you will appreciate this opportunity to see, hear and read of Ray’s impact on the 3D community.

RIP Ray.

Andrew Woods

Co-Chair Stereoscopic Displays and Applications

www.stereoscopic.org

 

 

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Excellent 3D Presentations of Ray Zone – RIP

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Conference and Exhibition

The World’s Premier Conference for 3D Innovation

 
 

vale Ray Zone

The chairs and committee of the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference wish to recognize the contributions of 3D author and historian Ray Zone, who passed away last week.

We have read the many heartfelt and warm reports of Ray’s impact on and contributions to our stereoscopic 3D community.  It is clear that Ray was an inspiration to many in the 3D community.  He was warm and generous and always happy to share his vast knowledge with newcomers as well as with fellow experts.  He will be acutely missed and remembered in the years to come.

As a tribute to Ray’s accomplishments in the world of stereoscopic 3D, the SD&A conference, SPIE and IS&T, have made available three items to help us remember Ray:

–          A short candid 3D video of Ray at the _1992_ SD&A conference filmed by David Starkman.  The video is available on YouTube3D here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFCryWZtXM

–          Then we can fast-forward 20 years to the _2012_ SD&A conference this past January to witness Ray’s conference presentation “Thinking in Z-Space: Flatness and Spatial Narrativity”
http://river-valley.tv/thinking-in-z-space-flatness-and-spatial-narrativity/
At the beginning of the video you can hear Ray saying “I’ve been coming to this conference now for 20 years on and off and it’s a joy to be here” – it’s not often that there is video evidence of that 20 year involvement!

–          Finally, SPIE Press has kindly provided open access to Ray’s two published papers that were presented at the SD&A conference in 1996 and 2012.
The papers are: 
Ray Zone (2012) “Thinking in Z-Space: Flatness and Spatial Narrativity”
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1282677
and
Ray Zone (1996) “Deep image: 3D in art and science” (Keynote Presentation)
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1013971
These papers will remain open access until the end of February.

You may also wish to visit his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Zone

We hope you will appreciate this opportunity to see, hear and read of Ray’s impact on the 3D community.

RIP Ray.

Andrew Woods

Co-Chair Stereoscopic Displays and Applications

www.stereoscopic.org

 

 

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DCI 1.2 with Errata~! and High Frame Rate RP

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(This is so important that I have wasted 4 of my exclamation point allocation!)

As SMPTE items take precedence over the DCI specs, DCI drops them from their documents. Now, perhaps you’re a rich buy with access to all the SMPTE docs and know how to find them. Or, like some, you know exactly how to get to the exact item in a version 1.2 document. Just sayin’.

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DCI 1.2 with Errata~! and High Frame Rate RP

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(This is so important that I have wasted 4 of my exclamation point allocation!)

As SMPTE items take precedence over the DCI specs, DCI drops them from their documents. Now, perhaps you’re a rich buy with access to all the SMPTE docs and know how to find them. Or, like some, you know exactly how to get to the exact item in a version 1.2 document. Just sayin’.

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Vegas 2013 SMPTE/NAB CinemaCon

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Calendar dates of SMPTE during NAB and CinemaCon

It happens again this year before switching back next year…CinemaCon immediately follows NAB in Vegas. This means that those who want to attend the SMTPE weekend, filled with more data than one can predict, but not NAB, and also attend CinemaCon, that there is a week in the middle.

Last year this was filled with a near-perfect EDCF bus tour arranged by Thomas MacCalla. From sound systems to important post houses (and who’ll forget being the first riders on the Universal Studios Transformers ride, or equally exciting, spending time talking with Laser Light Engines’ Bill Beck after the successful SMPTE showing of a laser driven Sony projector, and exchanging ideas with all the other european experts), the yearly bustour was yet again perhaps the highlight of the two weeks.

So what will it be in 2013? Can SMPTE out-do themselves…Can Nick Mitchell of Technicolor take the Marvin Hall Award for Telling Us What We Don’t Want to Hear again? Will there be another mis-named presentation that everyone complains for missing (what is white, really?) Will RealD demonstrat what they merely talk about at this coming SMPTE Hollywood Expo?

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Vegas 2013 SMPTE/NAB CinemaCon

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Calendar dates of SMPTE during NAB and CinemaCon

It happens again this year before switching back next year…CinemaCon immediately follows NAB in Vegas. This means that those who want to attend the SMTPE weekend, filled with more data than one can predict, but not NAB, and also attend CinemaCon, that there is a week in the middle.

Last year this was filled with a near-perfect EDCF bus tour arranged by Thomas MacCalla. From sound systems to important post houses (and who’ll forget being the first riders on the Universal Studios Transformers ride, or equally exciting, spending time talking with Laser Light Engines’ Bill Beck after the successful SMPTE showing of a laser driven Sony projector, and exchanging ideas with all the other european experts), the yearly bustour was yet again perhaps the highlight of the two weeks.

So what will it be in 2013? Can SMPTE out-do themselves…Can Nick Mitchell of Technicolor take the Marvin Hall Award for Telling Us What We Don’t Want to Hear again? Will there be another mis-named presentation that everyone complains for missing (what is white, really?) Will RealD demonstrat what they merely talk about at this coming SMPTE Hollywood Expo?

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BuzzwordCompliance™ Detectors Already Overloading at IBC

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One of the great parts of being Press at a convention like IBC is the absolute flood of email’d press releases that come in for weeks in advance. It allows one to prepare, and I am especially prepared for the BuzzwordCompliance Award.

So far, Customer Experience Management (CEM) Technology has got me hyped. I’ll spend the entire train ride to the show wondering why it isn’t CEMT.