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Frank Angel
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posted 04-01-2017 03:29 PM
quote: Randy Stankey
I'm sorry, guys... Phones are the way of the future... like it or not.
No, sorry, I DON'T like it. Its a degradation of civility -- not an iota of a concern or consideration for anyone else around them other than themselves or perhaps the other inconsiderate dolts they walked in with.
I still say the FCC should get in step with Europe, eskew the pressure of Big Telecom and allow jamming of cell phones within the theatre proper.
Thing is, I guess when Hollywood keeps churning out movies that are just so much mindless action trash, there isn't really any particular motivation to actually pay attention to dialog or story subtleties -- there isn't much there than needs concentration, you get the whole thing just by glancing at the screen every so often...you can easily watch these movies and talk at the same time.
When I saw LIFE recently, and there were just 10 people in the theatre and I thought, GREAT, what are the chances of having inconsiderats with so few people? But much to my amazement, and even though these few were spread about the room, they STILL yammered sporadically.
The chatter finally did quite down about 15min into the movie, but I think that mainly was because the sound was quite a bit hotter than what I thought it should have been and they just couldn't compete with it. I would almost bet this was management's way of dealing with the yammering horde...just turn it up so loud they can't talk to each other and trying to talk on the cell is equally impossible -- using audio to jam cell conversation...awesome. Still, loud audio may just drive them to text, although I bet if you got the DB level high enough, it would short circuit brain synapses so their texting little fingers would get confused and stop working.
quote: Randy Stankey
By this, I don't refer to the technology. I refer to the fundamental way they think about entertainment. Movies are now a "social experience." People don't want to sit in dark, cavernous rooms. They don't want to "shush" and be quiet. They want to talk to their friends about what they are seeing, as they are seeing it.
That's why there are so many people use their iPhones in movie theaters. They want to chatter to their friends about what they are seeing. Theaters that punish customers for using their phones are literally turning away money.
Now that there is a potential to have brighter displays, movie theaters don't need to be so dark. That means that a cell phone won't be as distracting as they would be in near-total darkness.
Randy, I think you are painting a picture here with too much of a generalization.
We have lots of young, college age patrons who give no indication that they want any C change from the way we traditionally expect a movie to be presented...in a darkened room where no one talks while the movie is on and they don't annoy other patrons by using their cell phones. The inconsiderates who do, in our experience, are far and few between...not the norm. BUT they do need to be called out and everyone else knows that kind of boorish behaviour will not be tolerated. I can assure you, ALL our patrons, old and young alike appreciate all efforts to "shush" the aholes.
Yes, there is social interaction; they come with friends and you can hear them talking about the film afterwards in the lobby (at the last show, we would offer free coffee for anyone wishing to linger and discuss the film). As far as I can see, they don't seem like they are looking to change the movie-going experience that us older folk expect when we walk into a theatre. Their expectations are the same as ours.
At one of our screenings one of our apprentice projectionists neglected to change the house lights from attraction reel level to feature level. The attraction reel level is really only enough that would allow late comers to get to their seats easily. Two young, college age patrons came out and asked why the lights didn't go out. Mind you, that level doesn't degrade the screen image, so it wasn't because the image was impacted; it was just that they wanted the room dark, obscuring the surroundings so the only focus is on that window in front of them.
They certainly don't come to watch a movie for social interaction DURING the film nor to ingest a full blown meal either -- while I understand popcorn and a drink on occasion along with a movie, I never quite understood this compulsive need to strap on an effin feed bag in order to enjoy watching a movie...but I digress. I DON'T think the majority of patrons want to chatter throughout a movie and I see evidence that they can get just as irate as we oldths (that's the opposite of youths) when someone starts in with their cell or with disturbing chit-chat.
Is there a place for socialized film watching? Possibly, but let the marketplace determine that. I don't think most in exhibition are about to turn away from the primary goal of presentation -- that of doing justice to the filmmaker's work -- just to accommodate a passing or even a lucrative trend. If that were the case, then most exhibitors would just stop showing movies altogether and turn their theatres into fast food franchises....oh wait...
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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 04-02-2017 03:38 AM
quote: Randy Stankey
I'm only asking, "What if this could be refined?"
I think that's exactly what this topic is for.
quote: Randy Stankey
I was only thinking along the lines of "If only somebody could figure out a way to do that on purpose." I am sure that, with proper phasing, timing and frequency control, it can be done and, to some extent, it is being done, today.
I'm using dipole speakers to create a similar, but more controllable effect. But in a next-gen cinema using next-gen audio tracks, you want to control exactly where the sound should be coming from, whether it is directed, "broad" or "all around you" should be "programmable".
There are a few cinema setups using line arrays already, but they're usually behind-the-screen setups. In a room with very limited reflections, you can use a line array like speaker setup to focus certain channels at certain parts of the auditorium. It should be achievable to put those speakers alongside the screen. If it sounds realistic, remains to be seen though.
quote: Lyle Romer
Didn't Sony or Samsung patent something about using the screen as a transducer? It "might" work if it was just for HF and then the less directional LF could be below the screen.
Making it work in combination with the LED infrastructure needed will be a major challenge. This is not just a foil, but multiple layers of plastics or glass and electronics. Getting them to vibrate in a meaningful way is rather challenging.
quote: Bobby Henderson
These LED walls aren't going to make it for professional movie screen use until the cost per pixel and total cost of ownership can come down to price levels that allow the theater to make a profit. That includes the replacement cost after several years.
The market is huge, so there is quite some competition. One big problem though, is not just the cost for the technology, it's material cost too. Quite a lot of expensive material goes into a large LED screen, that's why this technology will probably never get real cheap.
quote: Bobby Henderson
LED displays offer far more versatility in how they can be configured than any traditional movie projector or TV display. These boards are modular. The tiles can be arranged into any aspect ratio, even extreme ratios like the 58' X 1075' video ring going into the new Atlanta Falcons football stadium.
For DCI content, you really want a screen that has a native resolution that matches 2K or 4K. As most content you show is provided by you and practically immutable, it will be best to show it with a minimum of scaling and if so, only by factors of two. Even with considerable amount of pixel pitches to choose from, it will not be as flexible as a conventional projection screen where you zoom the image to fit to your needs.
quote: Bobby Henderson
It's not difficult at all to remove and replace a driver board that has gone bad. If the board is made by a reputable company it's not difficult or time consuming to adjust the color on the replacement board so it looks consistent with the existing boards. The theater would need something like a scissor lift to access each board.
The scissor lift thing is the thing I'm refering too. Some auditoria are already built for easy access and if you design a new auditorium you can account for it. But many rooms lack proper, easy access. That's why I only see limited use as a retrofit in existing builds or smaller screens where a ladder is sufficient.
quote: Bobby Henderson
All of these LED boards have plenty of black between the pixels. To me the amazing thing is how they can shrink the size of the actual LEDs down to such small sizes for the high resolution boards yet maintain intense color and brightness.
I don't think it is realistic to expect those customers to buy a screen in a resolution that eliminates the visible black space between the pixels. In most DCI theaters, you can easily spot pixels in content with hard edges, some claim it should be invisible for 4K screens, but on many of those oversized PLF screens, even that's not true.
Luckily, you almost never see the grid itself, so you can see the hard edges but not te space between the pixels. If this would be a LED screen with tiny pixels and lots of black space in between, you would see the pixel grid itself, especially in darker scenes. That's why I think it is important to install some kind of "diffuser" in front of those pixels, in order to spread the light in such way, that the dark space between the pixels will be minimized. The front rows will still be able to see pixels in certain content, but at least they won't be bothered by the screen door effect.
quote: Bobby Henderson
An LED board is not a smooth surface. I don't think sound would reflect off it as badly. A LED screen configured in common height rather than taller common width would bring speakers above and below the display closer together.
Getting back to the light diffuser idea, you might even use this as a sound diffuser. Just like many of those sound diffusers using "random" lengths of rods, sometimes with randomly angled edges, you could do the same by varying the thickness of the "diffuser" in front of each pixel. The downside is that you would create a surface that's particularly hard to clean though.
quote: Bobby Henderson
For giant screen use, driver boards would have to be designed to allow sound to travel through them. Ultimately I think that's what's going to be needed anyway, whether the boards are flat, curved or even made to build up a dome screen.
It's just something that comes to mind, without spending too much thought on the actual implementation, but maybe you could make the speakers part of the design of the panels themselves. This way, you would have one big LED and speaker wall.
quote: Bobby Henderson
Every driver board has its own cooling fans, ventilation ports, etc. The newest systems don't produce nearly as much heat and noise as LED panels did 10 or so years ago.
I've never seen it being employed for a LED screen and it will probably also increase costs quite significantly, but you could possibly avoid fans in the screen itself entirely by using some liquid cooling solution, which could be connected to a bus system, that would reduce noise to an absolute minimum. The heat collected is probably not sufficient to use in any meaningful way but if it is, you could potentially hook it up to an heat exchanger and use it to heat the room itself for example.
quote: Bobby Henderson
Allowing people to disrupt the movie is a bad idea. Considering the fact some theaters are selling beer and mixed drinks any efforts to enable disruptive behavior in a theater creates a bad combination and potentially violent situations.
We're getting way off-topic here, but I don't think that any theater sells alcohol with the intention to enable bad behavior. Beer and other alcoholic beverages are an interesting revenue stream, since you can sell them with even more margin than the average soft drink.
The problem here is oversight, which might be a general problem but can be aggravated by selling alcohol.
quote: Frank Angel
I still say the FCC should get in step with Europe, eskew the pressure of Big Telecom and allow jamming of cell phones within the theatre proper.
While I hate people using their phone inside a theater for random texting, facebooking and what not as much as you do, I'm no friend of jamming cellphones. The reason is that you might also block legitimate calls, like calls to emergency services or very important calls or texts for people on an organ donor list, etc. Furthermore, it is very hard to jam just the thing you want to jam and you could also be inadvertently jamming your neighbors.
Also, it will be increasingly hard to do so, since modern 4G cell phones already operate on a large array of frequencies.
quote: Bobby Henderson
The problem with OLED is cost. That type of display technology is affordable at small size levels, like that of mobile phones. When it scales to the size of current big screen TV sets the price gets very harshly high. Scaling the technology to the size of a commercial theater screen would be absolutely cost prohibitive. On top of that other issues would be present, like the solid screen blocking sound from speakers behind the screen or trying to build a tile-based system that appeared seamless.
About a year or 12 ago, I first spoke to some guys told me they had invented "printable electronics", using essentially something like a modified commercial inkjet printer. They didn't really have anything to show yet, but they claimed to be on track to print OLEDs too. I guess they underestimated the precision needed for high density electronics like OLED screens, especially since you would need to print multiple layers.
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 04-02-2017 11:33 AM
quote: Marcel Birgelen
About a year or 12 ago, I first spoke to some guys told me they had invented "printable electronics", using essentially something like a modified commercial inkjet printer. They didn't really have anything to show yet, but they claimed to be on track to print OLEDs too. I guess they underestimated the precision needed for high density electronics like OLED screens, especially since you would need to print multiple layers.
Also veering OT, and with apologies, but I've often wondered if and when someone will come up with a way to inkjet-print dye transfer film prints. You'd start with clear, processed 5302 or 2302 print stock, just like the original dye transfer process did, and instead of putting the dyes into the absorbent gelatin layer using the matrix and screen printing approach, you'd simply squirt them on with an inkjet.
I'm guessing that it would probably be theoretically possible now, but that the printing time would make it totally uneconomic, like the 1990s 4K film scanners (e.g. Cineon) that took around a week to scan a 2,000 foot reel.
As for rowdy behavior by film audiences - nothing new. I've read accounts of drunkenness, fighting, you name it, by theater audiences going back to the 19-teens. One of my favorites is a report of a 1917 screening in a theater in The Bronx of a WWI propaganda movie charmingly titled The Kaiser: The Beast of Berlin, in which a gun battle between German and Russian immigrants broke out (all of whom had reportedly been drinking heavily), and eventually resulted in the theater being burnt down.
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Bobby Henderson
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posted 04-02-2017 02:45 PM
quote: Marcel Birgelen
The market is huge, so there is quite some competition. One big problem though, is not just the cost for the technology, it's material cost too. Quite a lot of expensive material goes into a large LED screen, that's why this technology will probably never get real cheap.
Raw materials, like plastics, aren't very cheap. Every LED tile has a bunch of computer-based components in it. This kind of thing won't get to levels affordable to home theater enthusiasts. What I'm hoping will happen is continued breakthroughs on driver board design and capability. More powerful chips can reduce the amount of components going into each tile, simplifying the design and hopefully reducing cost. The better boards will eliminate less capable product lines. Right now a LED display company like Daktronics has many different product lines, all costing quite a lot of money to maintain. If the higher resolution systems can eliminate the more coarse product lines it might allow further price reductions due to increased scale of sales.
There's lots of different markets where these LED displays can be used. They're popular for signs and billboards in areas where they're allowed (quite a few affluent big city suburbs have very restrictive sign ordinance, even banning street signs completely). They're great for stadiums, busy shopping/tourism districts, airports, train stations, concert stages, large sports bars and overhead highway signs. Right now so many of these different markets use different kinds of LED boards.
quote: Marcel Birgelen
For DCI content, you really want a screen that has a native resolution that matches 2K or 4K. As most content you show is provided by you and practically immutable, it will be best to show it with a minimum of scaling and if so, only by factors of two. Even with considerable amount of pixel pitches to choose from, it will not be as flexible as a conventional projection screen where you zoom the image to fit to your needs.
Matching native resolution of 2K or 4K is not a problem for LED displays. There's already a lot of products available that can match 2048x1080 or 4096x2160 exactly. There's no need for scaling or zooming the image at all with these boards, as long as the customer installs a display that matches those pixel layouts. Repeating what I said earlier, focus is perfect with these displays, unlike that of many projection setups.
quote: Marcel Birgelen
I don't think it is realistic to expect those customers to buy a screen in a resolution that eliminates the visible black space between the pixels. In most DCI theaters, you can easily spot pixels in content with hard edges, some claim it should be invisible for 4K screens, but on many of those oversized PLF screens, even that's not true.
I've seen a lot more in the way of projection drifted just out of focus. You're not going to see any visible pixel grid very easily. But you're also not going to see any benefit of 4K versus 2K projection either.
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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 04-02-2017 05:47 PM
quote: Carsten Kurz
It looks as if this is not for demonstration only. Samsung actually applied for CTP/DCI compliance I heard.
Wouldn't they need it anyway, even for a broader demo with actual content? Their content selection would be rather limited, without DCI compliance. I doubt studios are forthcoming in giving a lot of unencrypted premium/first run content away, even if it's just for demo purposes.
quote: Leo Enticknap
Also veering OT, and with apologies, but I've often wondered if and when someone will come up with a way to inkjet-print dye transfer film prints. You'd start with clear, processed 5302 or 2302 print stock, just like the original dye transfer process did, and instead of putting the dyes into the absorbent gelatin layer using the matrix and screen printing approach, you'd simply squirt them on with an inkjet.
Sorry for my broken English back there, it was a long night. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I think the challenge would be creating a printing head with the resolution required. I've been following some 3D printing start-ups lately and some of them are trying to use inkjet-based technologies. It seems to be rather challenging to get right and we're not talking about any resolution near that required for printing 35mm film.
Thinking about it, if it would be possible to couple toner to film stock in any meaningful way, it would probably be a more promising approach to a "fast universal film printer", than an inkjet based solution.
The reason is that there has been an awful lot of research and investment into extreme-precision and super-fast laser scanning techniques for stuff like LIDAR (think self-driving cars). Also, modulating a laser at multi-GHz frequencies is both cheap and reliable, thanks to years of intensive research into fiber-optic transmission. You can get a multi-GHz laser modulator in the form of a switch and an SFP+ fiber optics module for a few bucks nowadays. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
quote: Bobby Henderson
Right now a LED display company like Daktronics has many different product lines, all costing quite a lot of money to maintain. If the higher resolution systems can eliminate the more coarse product lines it might allow further price reductions due to increased scale of sales.
Cinema will always be a niche market. Although the technology being used is often nothing more than a derivative of a mainstream solution, the adaptations needed will almost always make it pretty expensive. I'm pretty sure that a DCI compliant LED screen will be more expensive than any other LED screen with the same specifications.
quote: Bobby Henderson
Matching native resolution of 2K or 4K is not a problem for LED displays. There's already a lot of products available that can match 2048x1080 or 4096x2160 exactly. There's no need for scaling or zooming the image at all with these boards, as long as the customer installs a display that matches those pixel layouts. Repeating what I said earlier, focus is perfect with these displays, unlike that of many projection setups.
For now, it's only Samsung that is planning to offer DCI certified LED walls. Just like you cannot just choose whatever digital projector you please, you cannot just choose Daktronics as your supplier, if they do not offer a DCI compliant solution.
So, if Samsung offers, for example, just two pixel pitches, there are just two different sizes of screens that offer the exact 4K resolution. As you certainly know, there are cinema auditoria in all sizes.
quote: Bobby Henderson
I've seen a lot more in the way of projection drifted just out of focus. You're not going to see any visible pixel grid very easily. But you're also not going to see any benefit of 4K versus 2K projection either.
There's a way to cheap out on anything and technology is seemingly not going to fix it. When we switched from good ol' 35mm to DCI we said... well, all in all it might be a step down, a lot of us are going to loose their job, but at least, movies will not end up looking like shit after only a few shows.
And for a time, when everybody got their new projectors and took some time to readjust things, the projection standard might have been higher on average than ever before.
But then they "forgot" that even those digital systems need some TLC. Focus will drift, convergence will drift, stuff will get dirty, audio systems will slowly drift. Only now they fired the one guy that actually still cared, or somewhat cared.
If this technology ever becomes one of importance, the same thing will happen to this. LED walls also need maintenance. What good is an in-focus picture when you have one of the modules freaking out?
"Oh, it's just in the lower right corner... you can still watch the movie, right?" That's what the popcorn guy said to you after you tried and failed to locate the manager.
So, there will always be slackers, no matter how good the technology may be.
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posted 04-02-2017 06:25 PM
quote: Marcel Birgelen
So, if Samsung offers, for example, just two pixel pitches, there are just two different sizes of screens that offer the exact 4K resolution. As you certainly know, there are cinema auditoria in all sizes.
If these things ever take off, I'm expecting DCI specs to include variable, higher-than-4K screen resolutions.
At this point there is no reason to be stuck with pixel quadrupling anymore, especially when it comes to LED panels: I personally think that having perfect focus can easily compensate for every detail lost with nonlinear scaling, if any.
I know we're on a completely different scale, but 1080p content on a 1440p screen is just fine.
That would also - finally - allow us to install true native >5K Scope projectors or displays.
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Bobby Henderson
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posted 04-03-2017 01:49 PM
quote: Marcel Birgelen
Cinema will always be a niche market. Although the technology being used is often nothing more than a derivative of a mainstream solution, the adaptations needed will almost always make it pretty expensive. I'm pretty sure that a DCI compliant LED screen will be more expensive than any other LED screen with the same specifications.
There is nothing fundamentally different from the prototype Samsung showed versus that of other LED boards. These controllers for these boards can be made to accept a wide variety of video and image sources. Modifying a LED board controller to be DCI compliant -which in this case primarily means keeping the video source secure is a very minor part of the cost equation. Overwhelmingly the main cost driver is the LED tiles themselves, how many tiles and how many pixels per tile are needed. The other stuff, proportionately speaking, is pretty minor.
quote: Marcel Birgelen
For now, it's only Samsung that is planning to offer DCI certified LED walls. Just like you cannot just choose whatever digital projector you please, you cannot just choose Daktronics as your supplier, if they do not offer a DCI compliant solution.
Considering the kinds of massive custom projects Daktronics has engineered and the wide range of product lines they develop, believe me they would have zero problem bringing a DCI-compliant 4K LED screen to market if the commercial movie theater market wanted it. Making LED boards that are better and have longer life spans is the bigger challenge.
quote: Marcel Birgelen
If this technology ever becomes one of importance, the same thing will happen to this. LED walls also need maintenance. What good is an in-focus picture when you have one of the modules freaking out?
Driver boards are fairly easy to replace and color calibrate, especially the ones from better companies like Daktronics. If these kinds of displays were to be used in a movie theater environment spare driver boards would need to be on hand there at the site or in the hands of a service person tasked with swapping the parts ASAP.
quote: Pietro Clarici
If these things ever take off, I'm expecting DCI specs to include variable, higher-than-4K screen resolutions.
At this point there is no reason to be stuck with pixel quadrupling anymore, especially when it comes to LED panels: I personally think that having perfect focus can easily compensate for every detail lost with nonlinear scaling, if any.
In a perfect world all the content being played would match the pixel layout of the display. Many of the controllers for these LED displays can already resample/scale content up or down in size. If someone wanted to spend the fortune it would cost he could build a 8K or even higher resolution LED display now. There is very little native 8K content, so just about everything played on the board would have to be scaled to fill the display and synchronized across multiple controllers. DCI specs would need to specify the kinds of resampling used to blow up content (like resampling 2K to 4K).
quote: Scott Norwood
Also, I may have missed it in this thread, but this is an LED panel of the type used in sports facilities or on digital billboards, correct? As opposed to a "video wall" of LED-illuminated LCD panels.
It's exposed, direct emitting LED like the jumbotrons in stadiums or digital billboards. The difference is the LED clusters are spaced in far tighter pitches between pixels than you see on things like outdoor billboards.
I wish I was going to the International Sign Association world expo in Las Vegas this month. I'm sure various LED display vendors will be showing lots of new LED video boards.
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posted 04-03-2017 02:41 PM
One of the things that they said at their 'display' of the Samsung panel (GDC, who was 'promoting' it, not Samsung, who had the installation in Orleans) was that replacement of the panels are an insignificant task, and that calibration of them after to match the rest was equally simple.
I will confess, it all sounded interesting, I guess. The thing was, the GDC room was pretty sparse, had some repeating content on the one screen that was running, which might have been one or four panels (I'll give them that - if it was multiple panels, I couldn't tell), at least one panel sitting opposite the operating one, and no audio.
Additionally, they were very circumspect about price, availability, and just generally, we left the room not much more knowledgeable about the product than before we went in.
It was interesting, and no mistake. It was just that I imagine that there are logistical issues that need to be surmounted, and I think that perhaps the unveiling of it at CinemaCon was a bit early for them.
Had we had more time, I would have liked to take a look at the Orleans installation, but that was something that fell by the wayside, much like checking out a demonstration of the laser retrofit for existing machines that a company had going on (it concentrated the laser power modules in a single rack, and ran fiber optic to the machines, and was connected straight onto the integrator rod. If one power module failed, the others would take over, meaning that all the screens dimmed a bit, but none of them went dark. Seemed neat. Sad not to see it.)
Anyway, my main concern about the LED cinema screen is the customers, who can be prone to throwing things. Gummie bears are for eating, people. Also, putting the speakers above the LED screen seems weird to me (that is what they explained was done at Orleans, and would be done with any installation. Sound everywhere but at the screen kinda makes DTS-X, etc a bit problematic, I think.
That's my thoughts on it, anyway.
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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 04-03-2017 06:06 PM
quote: Pietro Clarici
That would also - finally - allow us to install true native >5K Scope projectors or displays.
The problem here is the compatibility with existing equipment. A lot of equipment which is currently perfectly DCI complaint will simply not handle anything above 4K. It won't be able to rescale it, because either software and/or hardware limitations.
Once DCI goes beyond the current specs, there will be an instantaneous demand for dual inventory distributions.
quote: Bobby Henderson
There is nothing fundamentally different from the prototype Samsung showed versus that of other LED boards. These controllers for these boards can be made to accept a wide variety of video and image sources. Modifying a LED board controller to be DCI compliant -which in this case primarily means keeping the video source secure is a very minor part of the cost equation. Overwhelmingly the main cost driver is the LED tiles themselves, how many tiles and how many pixels per tile are needed. The other stuff, proportionately speaking, is pretty minor.
It's the major Hollywood Studios that control the DCI specs, so it depends on what they put into the specs how difficult it will be to create a product that conforms to those specifications.
Let's not forget that the primary intention of those specifications is content security, then comes a whole lot of nothing and finally everything else...
So, we don't know how medieval they will get on Samsung's *ss and other manufacturers with similar products in the pipeline. They might as well demand encryption up to the LED drivers themselves, which will certainly add up to the costs.
quote: Bobby Henderson
Considering the kinds of massive custom projects Daktronics has engineered and the wide range of product lines they develop, believe me they would have zero problem bringing a DCI-compliant 4K LED screen to market if the commercial movie theater market wanted it. Making LED boards that are better and have longer life spans is the bigger challenge.
I have no doubts a company like Daktronics would be up to the challenge, especially compared to other manufacturers that haven't been in this market for that long. But there's more to it than just building a LED wall. Like I mentioned before, the DCI security thing could be a major speed bump, depending on what kind of security implementation the studios will demand.
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