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[Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Schubin wrote:
> The multiplication of media at the Metropolitan Opera happened.  If you're at the PBS 
> Technology Conference next week, come to my Friday presentation, subtitled "My Life 
> Since September."
>
> In brief, we are transmitting live HD cinemacasts to sold-out movie theaters around the 
> world.  How sold out?  The live transmission of "Barber of Seville" on March 24 
> ranked well within the top-20 in U.S. weekend grosses, despite the fact that it was shown 
> only once.
Kudos & props! Color me extremely and sincerely impressed!

Any opinion of the quality of the (1080i?) motion-compensating HD 
frame-rate converters?
This all sounds like very interesting and challenging stuff though I do 
 miss your Monday Memo's.  I didn't care as much about the ad's but 
always followed the rest religiously.
- Tom


> Why is it taking so much of my time?  Here are a few highlights from "Barber" 
> (just one of the series):
> - 16 transponders on 13 satellites as well as three transoceanic fiber cables
> - multiple motion-compensating HD frame-rate converters
> - one-hour HD delays to compensate for the different starts of Summer Time in 
> North America and Europe
> - 14 HD cameras and 30 recorders
> - five robotic mounts, including two extendable towers and a track, all of 
> which had to be deployed in minutes
> - a 600-foot live, backwards Steadicam move (ending at a live burro)
> - shooting multicamera live in the control room itself (one intermission was 
> shot live in five different venues)
> - live subtitling in multiple languages
> - stereo, 5.1, and LT/RT sound, discrete and encoded
> - coordinating live commercial U.S. radio, non-commercial U.S. radio, global 
> radio, and the HD cinemacasts, all of which sometimes share and sometimes use 
> different production elements
> - coordinating the parking of production vehicles on three Manhattan blocks 
> with the fire department, the police, and local security
>
> Wheeee!
>
> But I'll try to get something out.
>
> Sorry.
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
>
>
> John Shutt wrote:
>
> > Mark's Monday Memo, Twang's Tuesday Tribune, Wolfsson's Wednesday Words, Those 
> > Thursday Thoughts, Free Friday Fragments, and Schubin's Saturday and Sunday 
> > Stuff?
> >
> > I don't miss the television ads, but I do miss the industry roundup!
> >
> >
> >
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