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World's First All-digital Film Makes Debut
News The world's first film to be made from beginning to end using high-definition digital technology premieres on Wednesday to great media fanfare -- and it isn't the work of George Lucas. Like Lucas' upcoming Star Wars Episode II, Vidocq was filmed...
[September 19, 2001, 17:02]
Ho! Ho! Ho! Here Comes Gadget Claus
News Suddenly, we are making a very popular camera-as-toy proposition, which never really happened with the film variety," notes Gerard. You can go up to an 8-by-10 print and you won't know the difference (from analogue film).
[December 6, 1999, 8:58]
Gates To Help @Home And Intel Portal
News Called 'Making Pictures', the portal has, according to a joint statement from Corbis and @Home, been created to be a one-stop shop for users to develop and digitise film, create and distribute digital images, and learn about the latest imaging...
[February 11, 1999, 15:45]
Sony Brings Screenblast To Shops
News Sony launched the Screenblast products in September 2001, offering film and animation makers publishing tools to create video, animation and music and to share their work online. The film-editing software lets people pull up movie footage and...
[October 30, 2002, 8:19]
Six Big Trends Of Comdex '01
News No wonder so many people are trading in their film classics for digital cameras. The other attraction is strictly bottom-line: Companies are looking for big telephone service savings by making VoIP part of their digital infrastructure.
[November 8, 2001, 10:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As a brand with interests in film making, distribution and broadcasting, Film Four is exactly the sort of beast for which DRM is designed to help. The free DVD is courtesy of Film Four, which has presumably paid good money to get me this minor...
[October 7, 2005, 19:30]
Net Focuses On Free Film Development
News In addition, for new customers, the costs to develop the first roll of film are on the house. Snapfish.com plans to take every roll of film sent into their service, develop it, send the prints and negatives to the customer, and then post the images...
[January 13, 2000, 9:36]
US Judge Weighs DVD Copying Arguments
News During the hearing, 321's attorney argued that declaring the company's products illicit would amount to "a ban on the digital printing press", because it would ban acts of copying and excerpting film that traditionally have been legal in the non...
[May 16, 2003, 7:47]
Comdex: Pioneer Shows Off DVD-RW
News Parsons says the Copyright Protection Working Group -- made up of engineering, technology and film companies -- is working toward a Copy Protection Scheme that will protect the rights of film makers and ensure that users can use digital quality...
[November 17, 1998, 8:06]
Entertainment Execs: Learning To Live With Piracy
News But this town, long a trendsetter in music and film, is still struggling how best to respond to the challenge posed by new Internet technologies that facilitate illegal digital downloads of CDs and movies.
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
'Spider-Man' Allowed To Alter Times Square
News The judge also struck down the companies' claims that Sony trespassed by using lasers to digitally film the buildings. Cingular said it has a marketing deal with Sony tied to the film. Upholding the rights of filmmakers to superimpose digital...
[August 6, 2002, 8:36]
High-tech Morphing Indie Films
News Jonathan Wells, founder and director of ResFest Digital Film Festival, sees such movies as experiments that break through the artificial constraints of the mainstream movie business. Miller's film project, under the aegis of his film production...
[May 20, 1999, 9:54]
Star Wars Lawyers Get Tough
News At least, that's the theory that has led companies such as Lucasfilm Ltd.producer of the hugely hyped upcoming film "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace," to work furiously to eliminate pirated online versions of their work.
[May 5, 1999, 11:10]
Tesco.com Launches Music Service
News The site itself, tescodownloads.com, gives a hint at its future direction, according to Higgins - with the generically-named Tesco offshoot aiming to move into offering music videos and eventually full-length feature film downloads.
[November 8, 2004, 13:08]
Sight To The Blind Via Silicon?
News Japan's Epson will show how it has created thin film transistors (TFTs), found in flat panels, with ink-jet printers. Papers that first described digital signal processors, or DSP (Bell Labs, 1980), RISC chips (UC Berkeley, Stanford, 1984), 100MHz...
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
Major Animation Studio Speeds To Finish Line On Latest Feature Film With IBRIX
White Papers Digital effects houses and film studios have leveraged the computational power of high performance clusters for rendering and other complex jobs. This case study discusses the challenges a California animation Studio had in making the summer 2006...
[May 15, 2008, 0:00]
NHS Completes Rollout Of Digital X-ray Tech
News The Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (Pacs) technology replaces the traditional method of using film and paper by allowing X-rays and scans to be stored digitally and accessed by health professionals on computers and laptops.
[December 28, 2007, 8:18]
Sony's Digital Cameras 'infringe Patents' - Kodak
News It has announced plans to rapidly scale back its traditional film business and is trying to build up efforts in new digital areas, such as inkjet printing. Chute said Kodak appeared to be making progress in shifting its business and mind-set toward...
[March 10, 2004, 8:45]
.Net And XP Hit By Patent Suit
News Microsoft has been making aggressive efforts to attract the interest of the film and music industries by embedding anti-piracy technology in its media player and Windows operating system. A digital rights management company has expanded its patent...
[October 19, 2001, 9:31]
Users 'will Pay' For Wireless Video Streaming
News The most popular content proved to be video news clips, updated three times a day by BSkyB; sports and film trailers were also popular, Emblaze said. The telco is also making progress on a separate service that will allow consumers to download...
[July 7, 2003, 11:43]
