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Click on Image to Watch Video in QuickTime Player CBS's Hattie Kaufman shows us Empire High School in Tuscon Arizona with no text books - all Apple iBook G4's. Featuring Calvin Baker, Superintendent, Vail Unified School District. Amanda & Andy Shea students. Cindy Lee, Principal Empire High School. Jeremy Gypton, Teacher. Wayne Gritis, Site Tech. Melinda Jensen, Teacher. From a 9.20.05 CBS Early Morning broadcast segment.

Click on Image to Watch Video in QuickTime Player Joshua Kinberg tells of his development of the Video Blog Culture and FireANT since last year to date and predicts the future of it. At 26, the youngest of the founding fathers of the video blogging culture and technology describes how he came to help create the means for everyone to become webcasters of video to everyone else. Exclusive interview to FutureMedia 9.16.05 at the Digital Media Factory, Santa Cruz CA Cinemar Schmoozefest.

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Click on Image to Watch Video in QuickTime Player. Please wait. This encode doesn't fast start (bug in 3ivx) so you have to wait for the full 54mb download before autoplay does begin. Thank you for your patience. Click Here to Download and Listen to the 52.5 minute 12 MB mp3 Presentation Audio on your iPod Cornerstone Technology for Diffusion of Digital Cinema Sony SXRD 4K Projectors Presentation to the IEEE SCV Monterey Bay Subsection Bob Lofland, Support Engineer Sony Broadcast Division, San Jose CA 8.24.05 Digital Media Factory, Santa Cruz CA The technology and future deployment strategy of these new quad HD resolution Digital Cinema projectors for commercial motion picture theatrical houses. A dozen are already sold in the Northern California Bay Area already. These projectors will be going into a theatre near you within the next few months as Sony deploys them into movie houses this fall 2005 throughout the United States. They are known as the 4K projector because they project at a pixel width and height of more than twice that of HDTV - 4096 wide x 2160 high. This technology quadruples the resolution of modern HDTV projectors and provides a contrast ration of 2000 to 1 with up to 10,000 ANSI lumens. With such impressive specifications, these projectors are expected to provide the cornerstone enabling digital cinema to replace the presently ubiquitous 35mm theater movie projector. The talk goes beyond describing the enabling technology - Silicon Crystal Reflexive Displays. It also deals with Sony's strategy for digital cinema deployment and reviews infrastructure issues to put these projectors to use. They are shipping this month. This lecture with technical diagrams explains in depth how this new technology works. These projectors are in the $100k price range. A smaller home theatre Qualia C-340- projector from Sony is available using the same technology for only about $12k. Sony Press Release Sony Broadcast Large Venue/Digital Cinema page Engadget.com's post with comments