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In a previous article, Richard Riley said:
This is the best piece of corporate communication I've seen in a long while. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz6XjXu-oT8 I'd find this a lot funnier if they hadn't laid off two of my Digital Cinema Management System developers yesterday. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ I assume HR did send out the ad I wanted, not "apply for a cool job if you're a clueless ****". -- The Flying Hamster, on the receiving end of too many CVs |
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In a previous article, Richard Riley said:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:51:32 +0000 (UTC), (Paul Tomblin) wrote: I'd find this a lot funnier if they hadn't laid off two of my Digital Cinema Management System developers yesterday. Is that the former Boeing Digital Cinema? No, Kodak has had their own system a lot longer than Boeing has. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ When I hear the history of some of the more ugly European cities, with "... destroyed in 14xx, burnt in 16xx ..." I get the urge to ask why they keep rebuilding it and if they can't get the hint. |
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In a previous article, Richard Riley said:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:18:24 +0000 (UTC), (Paul Tomblin) wrote: No, Kodak has had their own system a lot longer than Boeing has. Ah. Boeing sold theirs off last year for about $1.98. I worked with it for a while a few years ago. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/pr...al/index.jhtml It's a pretty good system. Too bad it's underfunded and we're all over-stressed and over-worked. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ The problem with this country is that half of the population is below median intelligence |
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In a previous article, Richard Riley said:
Have they figured out how to get the theater owners to pay for it, when the distributors get the savings on prints? The industry seems to be going to a model where the distributor pays for the system, and then the theatre owner pays "virtual print fees" to the distributor. What they're trying to avoid is a throwback to the days where a studio controlled a theatre, and it would only show movies from that studio. The biggest hassle is that the studios are crazy about piracy and want digital to be way less piratable than film. But that also means that each print comes with a license key that only allows it to be played on a certain player - which means an added hassle when the theatre owner decides a movie is really popular and so needs to be played on the big house instead of the small house, or in two houses at once. That's easy in the days of film, you just haul the film platter over to the other projector, or set up a gang-play, but in the digital world it means they have to go back to the distributor and get a new key delivery that invalidates the key for the one player and validates it for the other player. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ If netcat is compiled with -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE, the -e argument specifies a program to exec after making or receiving a successful connection. -- netcat README file |
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Paul Tomblin wrote: ... But that also means that each print comes with a license key that only allows it to be played on a certain player - which means an added hassle when the theatre owner decides a movie is really popular and so needs to be played on the big house instead of the small house, or in two houses at once. ...in the digital world it means they have to go back to the distributor and get a new key delivery that invalidates the key for the one player and validates it for the other player. In the digital world can' t that be done over the internet in less time than it takes to walk a platter of film from one projection booth to another? -- FF |
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In a previous article, Richard Riley said:
Getting the theater manager to call the regional manager, getting him to call the distribution manager, get 3 signatures, file it, get approval from the guy down the hall, and THEN send the new key takes 2 days. Exactly. I've already seen the theatre managers complaining about all this anti-piracy bull**** getting in their way, and it will only get worse. Sooner or later, they're going to tell the studios to **** off with this anti-piracy crap or they're going back to film. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. |
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, Richard Riley said: Getting the theater manager to call the regional manager, getting him to call the distribution manager, get 3 signatures, file it, get approval from the guy down the hall, and THEN send the new key takes 2 days. Exactly. I've already seen the theatre managers complaining about all this anti-piracy bull**** getting in their way, and it will only get worse. Sooner or later, they're going to tell the studios to **** off with this anti-piracy crap or they're going back to film. The theater owners don't have the power in the relation ship. A distributor can but a theater out of business should they desire to. |
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