[Joakim Ziegler] “We do rent a larger theater for review before shipping off, though, but that’s mostly to see that things look and sound good in a more subjective sense.”
You might be interested to investigate Fraunhofer’s EasyDCP Player2, to be shown next week. One of the announced features is SDI playback through selected video cards, eg., BM Decklink. So if you have an SDI-equipped projector (I have a Christie), that addresses that, but it still leaves authors open to the vague differences between all the legacy servers that are out there.
I have to imagine that theatre owners are going to have to come to terms with the rapid obsolescence and turnover of technical assets. For nearly a hundred years, they have been able to more or less play a universally standard distribution format (35mm print) and now they’re going to have to cope with some bloody thing after another every 6 months. Is this really a good idea?
jPo
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