[opendtv] Re: What about ***The Tech Retreat*** ?
- From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:23:28 -0500
Jeroen Stessen wrote:
Is it true that Mark Schubin has not posted any Monday Memos for
weeks now?
Yes. It's true.
As I pointed out in the last memo to come out long ago, I've been
swamped by my work at the Metropolitan Opera. We're in the midst of a
series of global live HD cinemacasts, serving theaters in the U.S.,
Canada, Europe, and Asia (so far) with feeds in different formats
(including motion-compensating HD frame-rate conversion), with and
without subtitles, at different data rates, and with different types of
sounds. Simultaneously, the shows are being broadcast globally live on
radio, sometimes with joint content with the cinemacasts, sometimes not,
sometimes with different content for U.S. commercial stations, U.S.
non-commercial stations, and international stations. They're also going
out on satellite radio and being streamed. The intercom requirements,
alone, are mind boggling. We're also recording on 50 different devices
(from hard drives to HDCAM SR) in different formats and doing immediate
dubbing to provide material for other cinema groups and for rapid
editing turnaround for television broadcasting (which will have
different picture and sound mixes from the cinemacasts and radio
broadcasts).
Tomorrow's show, the third in three weeks (a brand new opera, "The First
Emperor"), will begin with actress Zhang Ziyi as host at 1:30 pm EST and
will run until about 5 pm. At 5:30 pm, we'll be doing a live satellite
press conference for the TV-critics press tour, delaying our wrap. Wheee!
Normally around this time of year he would talk only
not "only" surely
about the coming HPA Tech Retreat. It's fully booked,
Yes. It sells out earlier each year. This year, it sold out by
mid-December.
and it looks
like an interesting program again:
http://www.hpaonline.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=40946
If you scroll down in the program you'll see my name, just below
Dr. Naoya Katoh of Sony. We will talk about xvYCC transmissions
and wide color gamut receivers, how we expect to receive the full
glory of the Digital Cinema color gamut in our living rooms.
Charles Poynton will kick off the subject of wide color gamut in
his pre-Retreat Seminar on Tuesday PM. We (Katoh and I) suspect
that Charles will predict that broadcasters and producers hesitate
to open up the gamut, because then the final results will depend
on the actual display gamut and on properties of the signal
processing in the receiver. And they hate that. We (Katoh and I)
intend to demonstrate that this is only a minor nuisance, well
worth getting over it, and let's all enjoy a wider color gamut.
I could go on and on, but if you want to know more then you must
come to ***The Tech Retreat*** in Palm Springs. Oops, it's full!
There are still a few spaces left for the ATSC, Poynton, and
future-of-the-home sessions, I think.
Thanks!
TTFN,
Mark
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