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Hollywood Exec Has Grand Plan to Reinvent TV
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2017  |  0 comments
Jeffrey Katzenberg, former chairman of Walt Disney Studios and co-founder of DreamWorks Animation, has a grand scheme to reinvent TV for mobile viewers.
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Hollywood Piracy Concerns Rise
Barry Willis  |  Mar 09, 2003  |  0 comments

No one who's ventured into a computer store recently could have failed to note the amount of space devoted to video capture and editing technology. Most of it is being marketed to amateur videomakers and would-be cinematographers, but there's an obvious implication that the next step is bit-for-bit copying of commercial DVDs.

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Hollywood Quality Video for Home Theaters
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 27, 2004  |  0 comments
It used to be that truly high-quality video, the pristine jaw-dropping images previously available only to the "Golden Eyes" of Hollywood post production and broadcast facilities (and anyone else with a spare $60,000 to spend), was simply beyond the bounds of the typical home theater. But Silicon Optix intends on changing all that with the introduction of their new Realta with HQV single-chip video processor.
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Hollywood Rakes It In
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 30, 2010  |  0 comments
The economy may be dead in the water but there's one industry boasting record revenues. And that's the movie industry.
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Hollywood Special-Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen RIP: 1920-2013
HT Staff  |  May 08, 2013  |  0 comments
Hollywood special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died May 7 in London. He was 92. While not a household name, Harryhausen is know for his work on such classic films as Mighty Joe Young (1949) and Clash of the Titans (1981). In his memory we present Chris Chiarella's 2008 interview with Harryhausen.
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Hollywood TV Sabotage Opposed
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 25, 2008  |  0 comments
Public Knowledge and a half-dozen other consumer groups are leading the charge against selectable output control, Hollywood's attempt to deny signals to the component video inputs on early (in fact, all) high-definition TVs.
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Hollywood vs. Chipmakers
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Aug 30, 2004  |  0 comments

For the second time, the Motion Picture Association of America (<A HREF="http://www.mpaa.org">MPAA</A>) has sued chipmakers for selling chips to makers of DVD players capable of violating industry-wide copy-protection rules.

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Hollywood Wants ISPs To be Copyright Police
SV Staff  |  Sep 26, 2008  |  0 comments
Jeez. There's so much going on in Washington these days. Elections, bailouts, natural disasters. Let's add Copyright Police to the list. A new lobbying group, called Arts + Labs, just descended on DC. Their mission, on the surface, appears to be...
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Hollywood's Digital Workflow
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 06, 2005  |  0 comments

It's no news that Hollywood has gone digital in a big way in the production, post-production, and, to a lesser extent, theatrical presentation of films. In fact, the day may yet come when the term "film" itself will be nothing more than a generic, but not entirely accurate, description like Scotch tape.

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Hollywood's Netflix Anxiety Subsiding
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 10, 2011  |  0 comments
Netflix, previously the bane of content owners, is now wearing a halo of approval. What changed? Netflix is now willing to part with more of its burgeoning revenue for content acquisition.

One notable example is Time Warner, whose CEO Jeff Bewkes once referred to Netflix as the Albanian army. As in: "Is the Albanian army going to take over the world?" Then Netflix paid Time Warner $200,000 per episode for 100 episodes of Nip/Tuck. Now Bewkes refers to Netflix with "fondness."

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Holographic Video Projection
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jan 03, 2005  |  0 comments

Here's something that won't be at CES this week, but could well appear at the show in years to come. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England are working on a new video-projection technology based on holographic techniques. Now, don't get too excited; the images are 2-dimensional, not 3-D. But the technology is plenty interesting nonetheless.

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Home Automation Is for Everyone
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 19, 2014  |  0 comments
Consumer desire for home automation is rising, with 48 percent of those surveyed by the NPD Group “extremely” or “somewhat interested” in buying home automation products. The use of smartphones and tablets to control systems is driving the interest. And it’s not just the wealthy who are interested. A whopping 37 percent of automation-happy homeowners have incomes of less than $75,000.
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Home Builder Makes Voice Automation Standard
SV Staff  |  May 15, 2018  |  0 comments
Lennar, one of the nation’s largest home builders, has announced that voice-controlled home automation is now one of several standard tech features included in its “Wi-Fi Certified” new homes.
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Home Entertainment 2001 Finds a Time and a Place
 |  Sep 10, 2000  |  0 comments

H<B>ome Entertainment 2001</B> (formerly The HI-FI Show) is heading back to the heart of New York for the first time in five years. Described as "a unique hands-on event where attendees will see and hear the newest and the best in home audio and home theater," HE 2001 will take place May 11&ndash;13 at the Hilton New York.

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Home Entertainment 2002
 |  Aug 19, 2001  |  0 comments

After the wildly successful run of the 2001 show earlier this year, <A HREF="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com">Home Entertainment 2002</A> is heading back again to the heart of New York City. HE2002 will take place May 30&ndash;June 2, 2002 at the Hilton New York.

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