As was the case at this year’s NAB conference in April, Ang Lee became the main attraction at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam receiving the IBC International Honour for Excellence at Sunday’s Award Ceremony for his contributions toward pushing big screen technology, as previously seen in his masterful use of 3D and CGI in “Life of Pi”, for which he won his second Academy Award for Best Director.

The following day (Monday, 12 September) the filmmaker delivered the Big Screen Experience keynote address at the RAI Auditorium “on his creative artistry and transformational vision of cinema.”

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As was the case at this year’s NAB conference in April, Ang Lee became the main attraction at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam receiving the IBC International Honour for Excellence at Sunday’s Award Ceremony for his contributions toward pushing big screen technology, as previously seen in his masterful use of 3D and CGI in “Life of Pi”, for which he won his second Academy Award for Best Director.

The following day (Monday, 12 September) the filmmaker delivered the Big Screen Experience keynote address at the RAI Auditorium “on his creative artistry and transformational vision of cinema.”

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As was the case at this year’s NAB conference in April, Ang Lee became the main attraction at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam receiving the IBC International Honour for Excellence at Sunday’s Award Ceremony for his contributions toward pushing big screen technology, as previously seen in his masterful use of 3D and CGI in “Life of Pi”, for which he won his second Academy Award for Best Director.

The following day (Monday, 12 September) the filmmaker delivered the Big Screen Experience keynote address at the RAI Auditorium “on his creative artistry and transformational vision of cinema.”

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CinemaCon is starting with a bang, with Barco announcing its first range of large to small laser light engine projectors, with a press announcement – exhibits open soon enough, so more details later.

Barco launches full portfolio of laser-illuminated cinema projectors

Link for data: Discover the full fleet of Barco laser cinema projectors

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CinemaCon is starting with a bang, with Barco announcing its first range of large to small laser light engine projectors, with a press announcement – exhibits open soon enough, so more details later.

Barco launches full portfolio of laser-illuminated cinema projectors

Link for data: Discover the full fleet of Barco laser cinema projectors

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Update: There is now a reservation website for the 7 public demonstrations…REGISTRATION | Laser Projection Demonstrations

The reservation form says that the 3D events will be on a silver screen, showing both laser and xenon while the Side-by-Side demos will include split screen on both white and silver screens.

There is also a notice that the sponsors of this technology event are NEC, Ballantyne Strong and Qube.

While we try to get more technical details, I would appreciate it if you wrote me with questions or comments that you have on the demos in particular or the technology.  Write to: [email protected]

Research. Develop. Productize. It isn’t as if the first two are a piece of cake, but the latter begets loving descriptions. For example: The first 90% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90%. And that is often a serious underestimate.

Laser engines for high end projectors is such a natural. Doubtless, every chief engineer at every manufacturing company looks at the fundamentals thinking that there must be a way to glue everything together by now, nothing to hamper putting the building blocks together. And yet, years later, the concept and reality of laser engines is still R&D.

It was bold of Christie to put two demonstrations out there late last year and early this. The IBC 2012 presentation included a clip during the pre-show that was mostly shadow when the playback was at 10 candela/m² (3.5 fL), while the same clip at 48 cd/m² showed that people had been walking in the same space. Seeing the full 126 minutes of Hugo Cabret with 4 times the light that night was a 3D revelation.

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Update: There is now a reservation website for the 7 public demonstrations…REGISTRATION | Laser Projection Demonstrations

The reservation form says that the 3D events will be on a silver screen, showing both laser and xenon while the Side-by-Side demos will include split screen on both white and silver screens.

There is also a notice that the sponsors of this technology event are NEC, Ballantyne Strong and Qube.

While we try to get more technical details, I would appreciate it if you wrote me with questions or comments that you have on the demos in particular or the technology.  Write to: [email protected]

Research. Develop. Productize. It isn’t as if the first two are a piece of cake, but the latter begets loving descriptions. For example: The first 90% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90%. And that is often a serious underestimate.

Laser engines for high end projectors is such a natural. Doubtless, every chief engineer at every manufacturing company looks at the fundamentals thinking that there must be a way to glue everything together by now, nothing to hamper putting the building blocks together. And yet, years later, the concept and reality of laser engines is still R&D.

It was bold of Christie to put two demonstrations out there late last year and early this. The IBC 2012 presentation included a clip during the pre-show that was mostly shadow when the playback was at 10 candela/m² (3.5 fL), while the same clip at 48 cd/m² showed that people had been walking in the same space. Seeing the full 126 minutes of Hugo Cabret with 4 times the light that night was a 3D revelation.

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