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Sony Hackers Crossed A Line By Threatening Movie Theatres

Though most of the entertainment industry and business world has been riveted to every breaking development of the Sony Pictures hack, we have purposely refrained from writing anything about it. That was until the perpetrators of the cybercrime threatened movie theatres showing an upcoming Sony film…

Interstellar Unlimited Ticket Meme

Answering A Few Hypothetical Questions About the “Interstellar” Unlimited Ticket

Two weeks ago AMC Theatres and Paramount Pictures announced they’d be teaming up to provide members of the cinema chain’s loyalty program, AMC Stubs, an opportunity to see “Interstellar” as many times as they’d like. The Interstellar Unlimited Ticket, as the offering ha…

Star Wars Force Awakens Teaser Release

Regal Cinemas Causes A Disturbance In The Force

A few days ago you may have felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of PR managers suddenly cried out in terror, and a theatre chain was suddenly silenced. Translation: Regal Cinemas learned the hard (and often harmless) lesson so many online retailers have already experienced on count…

YouTube Now Supports High Frame Rate Playback (Sort Of)

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L562H8a2Fs[/youtube] Back in 2010, as debate raged over whether 4K was really necessary in movie theatres (it depends) and if consumers would ever adopt 4K television sets (they’re starting to), YouTube…

New MPAA and NATO Wearables Policy Is As Much About Social Norms As It Is About Piracy

In his classic 1835 treatise on American society, Democracy In America, french historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.” This passage sprang to min…

AMC Big Hero 6 Pin Giveaway

AMC Scores Promotional Hat Trick With “Big Hero 6” Giveaway

I awoke on Monday morning to a notification on my iPhone related to “Big Hero 6“. The latest animated release from Walt Disney Pictures had just topped the box office in North America during its debut weekend, fending off Warner Bros. “Interstellar” by taking in over USD $56…

Marvel Plays It Smart After “Avengers” Trailer Leak

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do[/youtube] When Marvel Entertainment learned the teaser trailer for their highly anticipated super hero movie “Avengers: Age of Ultron” had leaked online they had a number of options in how to respon…

CJ@SMPTE Conference – Bringing It Home: The Future of More Delivery

In an effort to provide updates on the proceedings of the 2014 SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition presently taking place in Los Angeles, CA, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the event’s panel discussions. Comments attributed to panel members are paraph…

CJ@SMPTE Conference – Listen Up: Immersive Sound

In an effort to provide updates on the proceedings of the 2014 SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition presently taking place in Los Angeles, CA, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the event’s panel discussions. Comments attributed to panel members are paraph…

Emma Preview at SMPTE 2014

CJ@SMPTE Conference – Howard Lukk Presents HDR Footage From “Emma”

In an effort to provide updates on the proceedings of the 2014 SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition presently taking place in Los Angeles, CA, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the event’s panel discussions. Comments attributed to panel members are paraphrased…