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Strange But Wonderful
Is it possible that the most important new product shown at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas in April was a test pattern?
Jun 20, 2008
The Starting Point, Chapter 2008
Imagine shooting someone against a window and being able to control the background brightness instantly without affecting the foreground. Imagine lighting a room with a 500-watt lamp aimed at the camera, instead of away from it, but still being able clearly to depict everything in the room, including the individual coils of the hot lamp filament. Imagine being able to shoot HDTV at roughly 7,000 frames per second.
May 20, 2008
Under the Red Desert Moon
As the desert moon turned red, the engineers on the roof might have contemplated the smell of 3D, the extraordinary visual detail from a microphone, and Dolby's amazing contrast between black and white. No, it wasn't peyote or synesthesia, just the 14th Annual Technology Retreat, conducted by the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA), in Rancho Mirage, California in February.
Apr 23, 2008
Getting Sirius
Which offers higher HDTV quality: a 2K digital-cinema projector or a 2/3-inch-format box lens? That seemingly unanswerable question is currently being debated at the highest levels of some cultural institutions, but it begs another. Does it matter?
Mar 23, 2008
Moved But Not Shaken
This year is divisible by four, which means it features both U.S. Presidential election events and Olympic Games. Candidates are said to run for office, and athletes run, jump, dive, or move in other ways. Some of this fall's competitors in the Beijing Paralympic Games might be blind, but other athletes -- and all of this year's Presidential candidates -- seem, despite all of that running, to do fine with a literal and physiological interpretation of what George H. W. Bush, at the onset of his campaign for our nation's highest office, called "the vision thing." Too bad video cameras don't function as well.
Jan 16, 2008
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