“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Digital Cinema” [Message from the Editorial Vice President]

There is said to be an ancient Chinese curse, which loosely translates: “May you live in interesting times.” For engineers involved in moving imaging technology, our times are remarkably “interesting.” In the U S., most analog television broadcast transmitters will signoff for the final time in less than a year from now After more than a half-century, digital terrestrial broadcast technology will replace the incumbent NTSC analog systems Music CD's have been largely displaced by digital downloads Television viewing is migrating from a living room experience to a mobile activity And in cinemas around the world, 35mm film projectors are being replaced with new digital cinema projection systems.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2008-03

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J15992