NIST DIGITAL CINEMA 2001 CONFERENCE DRAWS INDUSTRY TO DISCUSS STANDARDS.In January 2001, NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. and the National Information Standards Organization The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to bibliographic and library applications. co-sponsored the NIST Digital Cinema 2001 Conference and Show. Held at NIST, the meeting attracted over 200 participants and exhibitors for this new technology. The goals of the conference were to identify the standards and interoperability requirements for the industry, identify NIST's role in developing both documented and laboratory standards and tests, and bring together the diverse stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. in this new technology in order to develop a synergy for new ideas "New Ideas" is the debut single by Scottish New Wave/Indie Rock act The Dykeenies. It was first released as a Double A-side with "Will It Happen Tonight?" on July 17, 2006. The band also recorded a video for the track. and cross-industry cooperation. Participants gathered to discuss and identify standards and interoperability issues for the entire technology chain for digital cinema. This includes issues of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color quality and fidelity, storage and storage management, file security, and digital rights management. Digital cinema is the term used for the creation, production, transmission, and final display of digital content to deliver to the end-user a cinematic experience equivalent or better than film. Digital cinema is a convergent technology that employs information technology with traditional entertainment technology. Besides improvements in picture quality, digital cinema is expected to save over $500 million in distribution costs distribution costs distribute npl → Vertriebskosten pl for the movie industry, in the expectation that digital files can be transmitted by satellite or other broadband means more cost-effectively than printing and shipping film. Finally, digital cinema allows local theaters to intersplice new content, such as local news features and distance learning, as part of their business models. Conclusions from the workshop included: * There is a need for measurements to characterize the surprisingly good performance of electronic projectors and other components of the emerging digital cinema technology. The rapid improvements of the supporting technology for capture, transport, and projection suggest research is needed on color, brightness, contrast, and frame rate for capture and presentation of digital content. * Measurements are needed to support open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced that facilitate the interoperability, extensibility, and integration of the system components. At the same time, there should not be tiers of quality in digital cinema theaters using convergent technologies (company) Convergent Technologies - A company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation in 1979. Convergent Technologies' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the Intel 8086, which ran Convergent Technologies Operating System - their first . * Standards are needed in digital data storage to maintain the archives of digital content and for wideband transport and security. The archiving of multimedia is an international problem requiring multivendor solutions. * Various stakeholders expressed a need for continuing discussions in similar venues of interoperability and digital rights management issues for digital cinema and for continuing outreach to imaging and other interested communities. The area of trust management--digital rights management plus computer security--is viewed by the industry as an important opportunity for NIST involvement. |
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