Re: First Film To Be Sent Via Satellite
Ted, et al,
I want to apologize in advance if this is inappropriate for this
reflector, but I just wanted to clarify for those interested, FYI:
With respect to;
Ted > "... I'm pretty sure that the commercial projectors
Ted > don't use the DLP..."
Apparently they do. See below ...
...
Subject: 102 Dalmatians starts today on DLP Cinema
TO: US TIers
New Disney film starts today on DLP Cinema(tm) projectors
Disney's feature film "102 Dalmatians" will be released on DLP
Cinema(tm) projectors Nov. 22 at the following theater locations:
Boston, Mass: General Cinema Framingham 16
Chicago, Ill: AMC South Barrington 30
Cleveland, Ohio: Cinemark at Valley View
Dallas, Texas: Cinemark at Legacy (Plano)
Kansas City, Kan: AMC Studio 30 (Olathe)
Hollywood, Calif: El Capitan Theatre
Irvine, Calif: Edwards, Irvine Spectrum 21 Megaplex (Irvine)
Los Angeles, Calif: AMC Media Center North 6 (Burbank)
Orlando, Fla: AMC Pleasure Island 24 (Lake Buena Vista)
Phoenix, Ariz.: Harkins, Arizona Mills 24 (Tempe)
San Diego, Calif: AMC Mission Valley 20
Toronto, Canada: Famous Players Paramount
Vancouver, Canada: Famous Players SilverCity Riverport (Richmond,
B.C.)
The digital release of "102 Dalmatians" offers another great opportunity
to see a first-run movie at theaters equipped with digital projectors
powered by DLP Cinema(tm) technology. Also, please forward this message
to your friends and family so they can also experience TI's cool cinema
technology.
"102 Dalmatians" is expected to run at least two weeks. Please check
with your local theater for DLP Cinema(tm) show times. Addresses, phone
numbers and links to Web sites of all 31 worldwide DLP Cinema(tm)
equipped theaters can be found at
http://www.dlp.com/dlp/cinema/where.asp.
More information is available at http://www.dlpcinema.com/.
Thanks for your support and enjoy the show!
Regards,
TI DLP Cinema(tm) Team
Just thought it might help ... (-:
Regards,
Julio C. Hernandez
MGTS / Principal Engineer
Texas Instruments
(An "802.3ae Listener/Viewer")
From: Ted Schroeder <ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 11/28/2000 10:46:20 PM
To: Jugnu Ojha <jojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: "'802.3ae'" <stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: First Film To Be Sent Via Satellite
Not to take this off the subject, but I'm pretty sure that the
commercial
projectors don't use the DLP (digital light processing) chips, but are
D-ILA
projectors built by Hughes-JVC. These projectors use LCDs with a direct
radiating lamp that reflects off the LCD. The DLP is a very good
technology for
home theaters, but doesn't provide the resolution for a theater size
presentation (limited to about 1024x768 grids at this point).
Ted Schroeder
Alteon WebSystems, Inc.
a Nortel Company
and sometime Home Theater nut
Jugnu Ojha wrote:
> Cool stuff, all this. But the REALLY cool part is the TI projection
> technology used to display these movies - large arrays of MEMS mirrors
that
> are binary toggled to achieve intensity variations. 3 arrays are used
- one
> for each primary color. The images are combined optically. The
mirrors are
> reliable enough to project for something like 20 years nonstop before
> expected failure.
>
> Neat-o!!!
>
> Jugnu J. Ojha, Ph.D.
> Technical Advisor, Optical Networking
> Caspian Networks Inc.
> (408) 382-5213
> fax: (408) 382-5588
> jojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Nowicki [mailto:BNowicki@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 9:07 AM
> To: 'Rogers, Shawn'; '802.3ae'
> Subject: RE: First Film To Be Sent Via Satellite
>
> Been lurking for some time, now something we know about:
>
> The press release mentions that this used the QuVIS products, which
use a
> proprietary wavelet encoding. So speculations about the MPEG-2 used on
DVDs
> or miniDV underestimate the compression ratio (a modern proprietary
scheme
> should do much better than venerable old MPEG-2). On the other hand,
they
> start with 24 frames per second at over a thosand lines and more than
twice
> that many horizontal samples, at twelve bits per component sample.
>
> Now sending this uncompressed stream would use 10 Gbps links as noted.
But
> after the compression, my guess is that the rate is a few hundred
megabits
> per second. A similar encoding our products handle is HDCAM, which is
> intra-frame compressed high definition down to about the rate of an
> uncompressed Standard Definition. Encryption would not expand but of
course
> error correcting codes for the sattelite links would. And no reason
for the
> transfer to be real time (the press release says it is about four
times
> slower than real time). The QuVIS people have estimated a movie in
their
> format would take about 8 DVD-ROMS (using their encoding of course,
NOT DVD
> MPEG-2!) or a few tens of gigabytes.
>
> Bill Nowicki, Omneon Video Networks