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* Posts by SimonB

6 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2008

Sorry, chaps! We didn't mean to steamroller legit No-IP users – Microsoft

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Re: Everything OK now, you say?

Yup, still busted for me too.

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Microsoft's anti-malware crusade knackers '4 MILLION' No-IP users

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Re: Fucked

You need to make sure you email the author of one of the blogs too (link on the right hand side) asking when service will be restored:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/06/30/microsoft-takes-on-global-cybercrime-epidemic-in-tenth-malware-disruption.aspx

And also send feedback to this blog:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2014/06/30/microsoft-takes-legal-action-to-fight-malware-bladabindi-and-jenxcus.aspx

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Kodak heading to Chapter 11

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"Kodak could be making light-sensing chippery"

They already do. They make a very fine range of CCDs.

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WTF is... 4K x 2K?

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4K 3D

But of course there isn't a digital cinema standard for 4K 3D. All 3D titles are 2K.

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James Cameron to amp up Avatar frame rate

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Digital projectors

All digital cinema class projectors will do a minimum of 120fps at full frame and 144fps in a reduced picture size (with the lens zooming up to full frame). Some models with newer boards will do 144fps full frame. The issue is that there is no standardised way of feeding them more than 24fps in 3D stereoscopic 2k resolution. The DCI forum are working on it, but right now no server supports decoding of JPEG 2000 at more than 48fps (24fps x 2).

Looks like another round of server upgrades for cinemas (~$15k per screen). And very likely there will also be a 24fps deliverable for those who don't upgrade.

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DRM in latest QuickTime cripples Adobe video editing code

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@David T

The problem in this case isn't Quicktime *player* but the problems *creating* Quicktime files.

In the Mac world it is very common to use Quicktime as the file format when digitising and laying off to tape. In fact there isn't any choice in the matter, and until now has been rock solid. We've handled entire 2 hour feature films as uncompressed HD (1920x1080) Quicktimes this way with no issues whatsoever, and Quicktime player can be amazingly responsive on the right hardware. Also remember that Quicktime isn't itself a single format but instead a wrapper for many different formats.

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