Posts by raus

Quote:these are consumer formats that are likely to occasionally fail and dump you back at a menu screen. This might be OK once in a while for home use, but it is completely unacceptable for cinema use. 2) These are the same formats that...

Quote: (SPECIAL HDMI BOX) We all love DRM

Nope : www.dpreview.com/products/nikon/slrs/nikon_d800b Quote: Resolutions 1920 x 1080 (30, 25, 24 fps), 1280 x 720 (60, 50, 30, 25 fps), 640 x 424 (24 fps) Unfortunately, we have to wait (though, 4K support is necessary only for...

Well, maybe it's going to be better with the new Nikons (D4 and D800) which output uncompressed signal for external recorders. And I think the major problem with DSLRs is that they don't support 4K (yet) so are a little unsuitable for...

Quote: With a D-cinema server is it the hardware that makes it so different from your typical CPU/GPU, the software or is it the source that results in perfect fps playback. First the source material - it's just an archive with...

Apart from color space and a few pixels (for 2K, not 4K of course), there is no great difference, DCI files are just treated as series of single frames, while on BD they are treated as a film so some frames do not contain the whole...

Quote: Look at the Security section of the DCI Spec. You'll have a better understanding. And how does it answer my (in fact practical) question - what if i generate my own pair of private and public "DCI server" keys (not necessarily...

By the way - do the studios have some kind of whitelist of trusted server providers or one can send them any server certificate/public key and they will send the key message for that one? If so, it shouldn't be a great problem to recover...

Quote: it is a private residence in the home of a Producer, whatever loks best is the standard. OK but DCI-compliant devices must have completely closed data path (and can't compromise the film key or server private key, both of which...

Quote: and the addition of DEPTH FX to the signal How do you add effects to DCI data? Doesn't the spec say that there should be no changes to DCI signal otherwise the system is not "kosher"? BTW, how is the IMB more secure than...