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Dolby: Taking Sound and Vision to an Entirely New Level
At the CES Pepcom “Digital Experience” show online, I was fortunate to spend some considerable time at the Dolby virtual booth learning about the company's recent announcements at CES, as well as the company's rapid progress during the last few years. It was just a mere four years ago when I wrote about the launch of Dolby Cinema which dramatically changed the movie going experience with its immersive combination of Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos with their collaboration with AMC theaters wowing audiences around the world. In movie...
Voice-Over Actors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Inaugural Induction Ceremony October 10th Voice-Over Actors Hall of Fame to open at the historic Orinda It has been well over a year since the California Independent Film Festival Association conceived the notion of crafting a special public live event that would recognize the true artistry of some of the great voice-over actors of the past. Whether from animated feature films, animated TV shows, or just cartoons, the work from these voice-over actors are indelible and should truly be recognized and appreciated. Despite these...
Are movie theaters left in the dark in the age of COVID-19?
It’s 6pm on a Friday night in the East Bay at the historic landmark Orinda Theater, just 15 miles east of San Francisco. With its impressive luminous flashing neon lights on its marquee displaying a spectacular view to those who pass along Highway 24 at night, it gives pride and joy to the citizens of Orinda to have its city name in glittering lights, as not many intimate cities in the Bay Area can claim. Outside, underneath the retro ceiling before the entrance doors of the theater, newly installed neon lights bounce off...
Welcome to Omniverse – One Shared Unified World for Filmmakers
At the GTC 2019 Keynote conference in San Jose this month, Nvidia’s CEO and founder Jensen Huang announced Omniverse, an open collaboration platform to simplify studio workflows for real-time graphics. This has been in the works for nearly 25 years with the company, who have been long trying to make this happen throughout the years, worked closely with Pixar Animation Studios. With Omniverse, the production pipeline in producing a full featured animated film now has become much simpler and more efficient in the process, as...
Doug Jones receives Lifetime Achievement Award at CIFF
After pulling off an all-nighter on the set of the popular TV series “Star Trek – Discovery” in his role as Commander Saru, actor Doug Jones was scheduled to fly the next morning from Toronto to San Francisco to be honored and presented onstage with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the California Independent Film Festival. Not bad for an guy who has been unrecognizable to most of the public since he is usually behind layers and layers of prosthetic makeup in the majority of his roles, but has become a Hollywood icon for over...
National Association of Broadcasters
- NAB Show Announces Call for Proposals for 2024 BEIT Conference
- NABLF Welcomes 2024 Broadcast Leadership Training Program Class
- NAB Show New York Launches New Broadcast Content Summit Spotlighting Insights, Strategies and Networking
- NAB Leadership Foundation Names Seven New Board Members
- Curtis LeGeyt Urges Congressional Action to Ensure Continued Consumer Access to Local Broadcasting
NVIDIA
- Preventing Health Data Leaks with Federated Learning Using NVIDIA FLARE
- NVIDIA H100 System for HPC and Generative AI Sets Record for Financial Risk Calculations
- Free Course: Essentials of Developing Omniverse Kit Applications
- Enabling the World’s First GPU-Accelerated 5G Open RAN for NTT DOCOMO with NVIDIA Aerial
- Validating NVIDIA DRIVE Sim Radar Models