That’s Entertainment
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005While working with the BBC, it is terribly refreshing to hear people constantly harping on listening to the consumer, using the technology to create better programming, and competing with those damn Yanks who are always trying to culturally steamroll everyone else.
The Big Kahuna of Motion Video
True 1080i high definition television is coming down a pipe and through the atmosphere to you, and soon to a disc. Meanwhile, the studios can use some necessary post-production tasks to distract themselves from the blue laser disc standards politics. Check out this interview with THX’s Rick Dean by Jo Twist, science and technology reporter, on the facial make-up lines and back-stage filing cabinets that showed up in a high def viewing of Star Wars. According to Dean, video captured at 1.2 Gb/s in HD must be compressed to 5 Mb/s, about 98%. “I think if they see real HD [high-definition], not some heavily compressed version of it, there is such a remarkable difference. I have heard comments from people who say the images pop off the screen.”