A team of Netflix researchers, including Paul Debevec, has created a new, faster and more accurate AI-powered form of green screen – Magenta Green Screen (MGS) – that uses magenta light and can produce realistic VFX in real-time. Actors are filmed against a background of bright green LEDs. They are lit from the front by […]
Netflix has emerged as the leading bidder to redevelop the 293 acre former US Army base at Fort Monmouth on the Jersey Shore about fifty mile from Manhattan, into an enormous film production facility. If all goes to plan, they will break ground on the site in Q1 2023 and the complex is expected to […]
The streamer has published a post on its Tech Blog that explains how it uses transfer learning, a form of machine learning, to find and analyse the connections that drive audiences to its many hundreds of original shows. This in turn drives their marketing, analytics and forward planning In transfer learning the parameters learned from […]
Internet-only channel Direct will air French, international and US films and series that are already available on the main Netflix service Netflix chose France for the experiment because the population still watches lots of traditional TV and the company is keen to maintain its advantage over Salto, the French domestic streaming platform that launched in […]
A long-awaited new Netflix feature for its browser-based interfaces as well as its Android and iOS apps now allows users to play programmes up to 1.5-times faster than realtime and 0.5-times slower Some filmmakers and stars are concerned that being able to slowly roll backwards and forwards while a film is playing will affect its […]
With the existence of cinemas as we know them under threat, news that Amazon might be considering a move for the world’s largest cinema chain, AMC, is enough to raise many an eyebrow. In a twist that could have come out of a movie, are the big tech and online streaming platforms that have arguably […]