{"id":266,"date":"2006-05-07T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=266"},"modified":"2006-05-07T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T22:06:55","slug":"everything-about-digital-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/everything-about-digital-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Want To Know About Digital Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading my post last week regarding emerging digital theater technology<\/a>, Baptiste Coudurier did some legwork and located the — quite public — v1 specs for the Digital Cinema System. You can download the exhaustively-detailed PDF here<\/a>. The 2 general supported video resolutions are dubbed 2K and 4K which refer to 2048×1080 and 4096×2160, respectively. Section 7.5.3 specifies exactly how much storage a compliant unit is expected to have ready (a lot), and why. Video in fact is compressed, with JPEG 2000 and uses a 36 bit\/pixel XYZ colorspace. Audio is uncompressed and subtitles are PNG. How did all of these open formats make it into the mix? Strange. Also, the container format is specified as MXF. Encryption is, of course, handled by AES (that thing sure caught on in a hurry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You wanted the details? Here they are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t