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1:00PM Joanna Stern | Wow! That’s what I’ve got to say after listening to George Lucas speak at the World Business Forum today. The legendary filmmaker discussed everything: innovation, his movies being viewed on iPhones and how amazing he thinks Steve Jobs is. More »
George Lucas Imagines the Future of Cinema
1:00PM Joanna Stern | Wow! That’s what I’ve got to say after listening to George Lucas speak at the World Business Forum today. The legendary filmmaker discussed everything: innovation, his movies being viewed on iPhones and how amazing he thinks Steve Jobs is. More » 
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Take Five Minutes To Watch 100 Years Of Visual Effects
11:30AM Rosa Golijan | Let’s take a five minute break from Food Week to watch this compilation of some incredible moments in the history of visual effects, from silent films to recent blockbusters. Oh, and pay attention to the background track. The tune’s nice. More »
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JVC Introduces Their First 8K Projector
11:20AM Andi Wang | JVC latest projectors—one at 8K (8,192×4,320pixels) and the other at 4K (3,840×2,160pixels)—come with 10,000 lumens of brightness and produce a 5500:1 contrast ratio. More »
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Video: Philips’s Crazy 56-Inch Ultra-Widescreen Cinema 21:9 LCD Is Real
2:20AM John Mahoney | Philips took the wraps off their 21:9 Cinema LCD in merry ol’ England, confirming the renderings that circulated earlier this month. It does display 2.40:1 ’scope with no letterboxing, but is that what you want? More »
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Apple Cinema Displays To Get LED Refresh?
2:31AM John Mahoney | Macrumors is reporting that new Cinema Displays are coming from Apple that will bring LED backlights to the whole line, which is in sync with the company’s plan to ditch fluorescent backlights entirely. The tipster is seeing Macworld in January as a likely time for them to pop up. They haven’t been updated in any large fashion since 2004, so this doesn’t seem that out of the question. HDMI please? [Mac Rumors] More »
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10:05AM Nick Broughall | It’s probably the beginning of the apocalypse or something, but Australia is actually starting to get things before the United States. Last week it was the iPhone 3G, and this week it’s the new Batman movie – The Dark Knight is in Australian Cinemas today, but not hitting the US until Friday. This almost makes up for Disney delaying Wall-E by 3 months in Australia. Almost.
In any case, because of the exciting Australian exclusive, Village Roadshow are cranking up the piracy paranoia prevention, and issuing staff at workers at cinemas nationwide with night-vision goggles, according to News.com.au. That’s right, the same guys that will be picking up your empty popcorn boxes will also be armed with state of the art military tech to stop you from recording a copy of the film for YouTube.
If you do decide to risk it and are caught, expect to be silently shot in the back of the head ejected from the cinema post haste.
[News.com.au]
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Sam Fisher Will Be Watching You Watching The Dark Knight
10:05AM Nick Broughall | It’s probably the beginning of the apocalypse or something, but Australia is actually starting to get things before the United States. Last week it was the iPhone 3G, and this week it’s the new Batman movie – The Dark Knight is in Australian Cinemas today, but not hitting the US until Friday. This almost makes up for Disney delaying Wall-E by 3 months in Australia. Almost.
In any case, because of the exciting Australian exclusive, Village Roadshow are cranking up the piracy paranoia prevention, and issuing staff at workers at cinemas nationwide with night-vision goggles, according to News.com.au. That’s right, the same guys that will be picking up your empty popcorn boxes will also be armed with state of the art military tech to stop you from recording a copy of the film for YouTube.
If you do decide to risk it and are caught, expect to be silently shot in the back of the head ejected from the cinema post haste.
[News.com.au]
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Sony’s New Ad Campaign Teaser: Crazy Stuff With Cameras
6:15AM Wilson Rothman | Sony’s launching a new ad campaign on April 22, following up all those other spots we’re crazy about. We got our hands on the teaser, entitled “Nothing,” and it is both very cool and totally irritating at the same time, because “Nothing” is exactly what happens. Kind of. It’s a bunch of smug film dudes talking with British accents about explosions and special effects, while doing increasingly crazy things with their cameras. If I was one of those cameras in the video, I’d be praying for a stunt double—look for the one that gets tossed off a bungee platform, and the other that gets rolled down a friggin’ mountain. But all of this build-up is for what, Sony? WHAT ARE THEY SHOOTING!!??! [Sony] More »
