As Celluloid Junkie gets its nomination list on for this years Top Women in Global Cinema 2019 recognition fest, (https://celluloidjunkie.com/wire/nom[……]

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As Celluloid Junkie gets its nomination list on for this years Top Women in Global Cinema 2019 recognition fest, (https://celluloidjunkie.com/wire/nom[……]

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HDR (high dynamic range) seemed very vivid and a lot more certain when it was theoretical.

What the term HDR implied for cinemas – Higher and lower luminance, giving both more light and more dark slices of the CIE horseshoe (more volume) and Wider Gamut (or color space if you prefer …either way, ITU 2020, (or 1919 as the case may be to avoid speckle)), and the implications of that for Contrast Ratio, plus High Frame Rates, and perhaps Moore bits to the signal path…pun intended.

It was 3 years ago at CinemaCon 2014 that the term ‘Better Pixels’ blossomed from nowhere to be that season’s clever phrase. That was also just before the not-so-obvious vagaries appeared as the cognoscenti dove into the task of defining what these obvious picture benefits actually meant, and what attaining them would cost.

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HDR (high dynamic range) seemed very vivid and a lot more certain when it was theoretical.

What the term HDR implied for cinemas – Higher and lower luminance, giving both more light and more dark slices of the CIE horseshoe (more volume) and Wider Gamut (or color space if you prefer …either way, ITU 2020, (or 1919 as the case may be to avoid speckle)), and the implications of that for Contrast Ratio, plus High Frame Rates, and perhaps Moore bits to the signal path…pun intended.

It was 3 years ago at CinemaCon 2014 that the term ‘Better Pixels’ blossomed from nowhere to be that season’s clever phrase. That was also just before the not-so-obvious vagaries appeared as the cognoscenti dove into the task of defining what these obvious picture benefits actually meant, and what attaining them would cost.

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The Quality Active Cinema site has an article on Loudness that points out the absolute – Sound is relative. dBs are relative in a hundred different wa[……]

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The Quality Active Cinema site has an article on Loudness that points out the absolute – Sound is relative. dBs are relative in a hundred different wa[……]

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Can’t imagine how it will be important in the future, no doubt for conferencing or other upcoming alternative or event cinema, but Graeme Harrison tries to explain it to us again: 

The Death And Rebirth Of AVB

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Can’t imagine how it will be important in the future, no doubt for conferencing or other upcoming alternative or event cinema, but Graeme Harrison tries to explain it to us again: 

The Death And Rebirth Of AVB

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For a quick review of Audio Basics, the ICTA presentation slides of Barry Ferrel’s Audio Basics for Cinema Sound Engineers can’t be beat (named Amplifier Power, at Film-Tech. Barry is very generous with time and knowledge, giving this type of presentation at several technical seminars of the ICTA (where he was President), and ShowWest/CinemaCon. Scour the interwebz for other examples, including his notes on Alternative Content.

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For a quick review of Audio Basics, the ICTA presentation slides of Barry Ferrel’s Audio Basics for Cinema Sound Engineers can’t be beat (named Amplifier Power, at Film-Tech. Barry is very generous with time and knowledge, giving this type of presentation at several technical seminars of the ICTA (where he was President), and ShowWest/CinemaCon. Scour the interwebz for other examples, including his notes on Alternative Content.

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