The Future of Digital Cinema

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Posted by michael on Friday June 20, 2003 @02:57AM from the sticky-floors dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times recently had an interesting article on the future of digital cinema. The article talks mainly about the Digital Cinema Initiatives consortium (formed last year by a group of seven major studios) and its work towards establishing a set of standards for theatrical digital projection. DigitalCinemaMag also had an article back in February about the consortium's efforts which included a few more technical details."

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Forget JPEG... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-20 03:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Choosier moms choose GIF.
The future is... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-20 03:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Finally, an excuse for George Lucas to make another seven versions of Star Wars! Man is he going to be happy with this!
I had some comments by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-20 03:00 · Score: 3, Funny

But the DMCA won't allow me to make them.
Re:Forget GIF by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-20 03:04 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm afraid that as PNG is not released under the all encompasing GNU GPL, it is simply not acceptable. The GNU project has recently started work on the GNU/PNG format, and has just released version 0.1 It is fundamatentaly the same as the non-free PNG format, but includes non-standard extensions and five thousand new command line options that you will never use. We expect to release version 1.0 of GNU/PNG at about the same time as the GNU/HURD is complete.

Yours with a beard

RMS
I suspect that by k1llt1me · 2003-06-20 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny

as of 20 June 2003, all Digital Cinema will be done using the animated GIF format...
Re:No more color noise from corrections by Conspir8or · 2003-06-20 10:19 · Score: 2, Funny

The blip tells the projectionist to line-up the next reel momentarily.

I thought that's what the single frame of pornography was for.