GLG News by Dolby Digital Technology Experts (North America)

Soon, there will a paradigm shift in storage.  This shift is as much driven by economics as by technological developments.  The uses of large storage in some devices will become prevalent and change our view of memory forever.

* There will be 11 3-D titles released to cinemas in 2009.  * Exhibitors have a choice of 3-D technologies, all of which are acceptable to studios, but each has a different business model. * 3-D is the driver for the adoption of digital cinema technology.

Anticipating rapid adoption of Blu-ray, now that the confusion of a format war has been brought to a close, Microsoft will need to find ways to work with the technology. It will be some years before on-line distribution of High Def content into living rooms becomes common place owing to bandwidth and...

Lots of us considered IMAX down and out in recent years as the institutional theater market (museums, etc.) began to dry up and as IMAX and others failed to provide sufficient appropriate content to the commercial theater circuits to which the Company was selling systems. Now with 3D being one of the...

Even though DivX has a very strong position in video technology, it has been challenged by competitors in the area of webpage embedded video, particularly by Flash of Adobe. The recent acquisition of MainConcept by DivX will greatly strengthen DivX's position, and may potentially change...

DirecTV has added 21 new HD Channels to their existing tier of 31 toward a goal of 100 by year end. This is great news for their subscribers and for those who understand and appreciate the big difference that viewing in HD can make. However, the question becomes whether this will add a significant number...

While the format wars in the next generation DVD systems continue to confuse customers clearly indicating that there is not going to be an obvious winner for some time, if at all, VOD may be sneaking under the radar. This is still a very nascent business. The studios in making their content available...

How does this impact Access IT and Screenvision?

• A 3-D renaissance is taking place in the cinema due to the introduction of DLP digital projection in theatres. • 3-D to the home has its challenges: no standards, difficult to produce, only DLP can display 3-D out-of-the-box. • TI's push to use 3-D to increase DLP sales in the home...

I can hardly wait until tomorrow to find out what is the next news release in the next generation DVD format battle. The stats are nice in this nascent industry, but it is still lying with statistics, so to speak. Earlier this week, there was a story that Sony was in the lead and today this article...