Oma Cinema is hoping to cause a stir by replacing the traditional stalls and circle auditorium configuration with a decidedly space-age room featuring vertically arranged pods each with 15 seats. The design’s elevated platforms will not only ensure excellent sound and picture for all audience members, it will also allow for a more upmarket movie-going […]
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NVIDIA A100 benchmarks as world’s fastest GPU
NVIDIA’s Ampere A100 GPU has been named the fastest graphics processor in the world after returning some impressive results in OctaneRender’s OctaneBench tests. The A100 posted an Octanebench score of 446 (standard Linux OB4 benchmark, RTX off, recompiled for CUDA11, ref. 980=102 OB), which is roughly 43% faster than #Turing, even with/ #RTX off! To […]
And the 2020 Best VFX Emmy nominees are …
Congratulations are in order to the 2020 Prime Time Emmy Awards: nominees for Outstanding Special Visual Effects: Lost In Space (Netflix) The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm) Stranger Things (Netflix) Watchmen (HBO) Westworld (HBO) Click here for a full list of all this year’s Emmy nominations. We wish those who worked on all the nominated shows in all categories […]
AMC and Universal break PVOD deal deadlock
In an historic move, the time a Universal or Focus Features movie can be seen only at a cinema has been reduced from nearly three months to a skinny three weeks In the US, AMC Theatres and Universal have signed a deal that will allow Universal and Focus Features releases to be made available on […]
Rethink Creativity with AWS and NVIDIA
AWS and NVIDIA are collaborating to provide media and entertainment businesses with virtual workstations running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4 instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs in an initiative they call Rethink Creativity. Users also have access to Quadro vWS at no additional cost Target markets Visual effects, animation and real-time, interactive rendering […]
Releases delayed again as US cinemas stay shut
As Covid-19 continues to rage in the US, forcing studios to continually revise their plans, cinema owners hope Europe holds the key to reopening The Los Angeles Times reports that AMC, the world’s largest cinema owner, will remain closed for business while it waits for new films to be released.. In the UK, the doors […]
