At the Dolby House at SXSW today (Weds 15 March), our friends at Draw & Code combined Dolby.io’s real-time streaming technology and Move.ai’s motion capture system to stream a technology demo of a future performance capture pipeline for the music industry. The experiment, which was conducted in conjunction with KOKO in London’s Camden Town, involved […]
This Thanksgiving, HBO Max’s US audience is getting a new action comedy, Superintelligence, about what happens when an all-pervasive AI (voiced by James Corden) focuses on Ms Average (Melissa McCarthy) to help her to get her life in order, and into the bargain, maybe sort out some of the planet’s and society’s problems in the […]
Cinema projector maker Christie has been granted a patent in the U.S. and Europe for a hardware and software package that allows cinemas to stream films directly into viewers’ homes. The system supports delivery options from compressed H.265 streams at 4Mbps to uncompressed 8K at 120Hz at 100Gbps, all at low latency. “This technology enables […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is already known that Cineworld has responded negatively to Universal’s decision to release the Trolls World Tour sequel directly into homes rather than delay its release until after the lockdown has been lifted.. “Our policy with respect to the window is clear, well known in the industry and is part of our commercial deal […]