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["John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow!  Congrats!  No, I won't be in Vegas, but my boss will, so I'll let him 
know to be there.  And I though we had it rough last week with a four camera 
production of "Florencia en el Amazonas" webcast for the Michigan State 
University  School of Music.
Thanks, and I hope to see a nice write-up of the Met's happenings in the 
trades.  (Unless I missed one already?)
John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Open DTV Forum" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Whatever happened to...


> 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.
> 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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