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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…

SMPTE Symposium 2014 - What We Want To Do With More

CJ@SMPTE Conference – What We Want To Do With More

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…

Good Dose of Reality Is the Perfect Antidote For All the Netflix Fear Mongering

It’s been a week since streaming media giant Netflix announced two big agreements which signal the company is aggressively moving into a space once occupied exclusively by motion picture distributors and exhibitors. One calls for a sequel to the martial arts classic “Crouching Tiger, Hid…