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Automatic Scanning for Cameras in Theaters
An anonymous reader writes "A Florida firm claims to have found a solution for the movie industry to prevent bootlegging in theaters. Tom's Hardware carries a story about Trakstar, which demonstrated its 'PirateEye' technology in a Hollywood movie theater to journalists and movie industry representatives: The technology uses light impulses to detect video recording devices. A second component is an audio watermarking system."
Is this going to affect my ability to bring in and drink beer at the movie theater?
Now can they invent some kind of device that detects shitty movies? A shitty footage detector could be used during shooting and editing to stop shitty movies before they start.
The companion shitty dialogue filter would be indispensible as well.
This still won't work because all the good movies rips come from France or England.
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
But you must admit that this gives you the real cinema feeling. If there was a smell of popcorn and artificial butter it would be undistinguishable from a real cinema...
Watermarking sounds promising.
Watermarking? Sounds like something my dog also finds interesting.
I don't need a signature.
I believe that's a monacle. The guy also has a large canvas bag with "$" marked on it in the seat next to him, under his top hat.
Huge scrolling LED sign, behind the screen, that constantly scrolls the message "TAKE YOUR FUCKING CAMERA OUT OF HERE" all through the movie.
Simple, I learned this from Murdoch on the A-Team.
All you need to do is take a polaroid of the movie theatre from the detector's perspective, then affix something to prop up the polarioid in front of the detector. Voila!
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If it's tampered with, a call center is notified.
I guess the pirates have nothing to be afraid of then. Nothing useful ever came out of talking to a call center.
Random and weird software I've written.
The only way I can think of you can detect a camera is a "red eye" effect. To make it not disturbing for viewers you have to make it invisible and so much less effective as the cameras have IR cutoff filters inside. So there are at least 2 things that can be done about that:
1. Use additional high quality dielectric IR cutoff filters in front of the camera lens and
2. Make fun of them - take pieces of reflective tape (maybe cut as circels) or bycicle reflectors and stick them to the walls and chairs in the theater. Make it look as there are dozens of cameras recording the show!