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Dolby and Philips Announce Dolby 3D Format Specification for Delivering High-Quality, Glasses-Free 3

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Dolby and Philips Announce Dolby 3D Format Specification for Delivering High-Quality, Glasses-Free 3D Video Content to Broad Range of Devices


Dolby demonstrates how creative professionals can use industry-leading tools like The Foundry’s NUKE and OCULA to create Dolby 3D content

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYS: DLB) and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG; AEX:PHI) today announced the Dolby® 3D format, a new content delivery specification for Dolby 3D. The Dolby 3D format ensures that 3D content delivered to TVs, smartphones, PCs, and tablets enabled with Dolby 3D looks its very best, and accurately reflects what the content creator originally intended.

The Dolby 3D format, which attaches essential playback information to content, will be available through a licensing program. Leading postproduction tool provider The Foundry will be demonstrating the future integration of the Dolby 3D format into its popular NUKE and OCULA postproduction products.

Dolby 3D is a comprehensive suite of technologies for the creation, delivery, and playback of glasses-free 3D content, producing auto-stereoscopic images with lifelike realism. In addition to eliminating the need for glasses, Dolby 3D has no narrow “sweet spot,” so viewers can enjoy the sharpest images regardless of where they sit.

Roland Vlaicu, Senior Director, Broadcast Imaging, Dolby Laboratories explained, “The Foundry’s award-winning products and tools are behind the groundbreaking 3D visual effects in such films as Avatar, Tron: Legacy, and Hugo. By providing powerful tools to create Dolby 3D content, Dolby and Philips will make it easier than ever for Hollywood to create content for glasses-free 3D TVs and other devices.”

“The professionals using our postproduction tools want to know that whatever they create is going to look great, no matter where or how viewers choose to watch,” said Simon Robinson, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of The Foundry. “The Dolby 3D format will ensure that creative professionals’ artistic vision is recreated intact in the home.”

According to Guido Voltolina, manager of the joint project between Dolby and Philips, the Dolby 3D format specification is a crucial milestone in clearing the hurdles to easy and customizable 3D viewing on TVs, tablets, smartphones, and laptops. “By demonstrating a brilliant 3D experience that doesn’t require glasses using The …read more

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That Black Hole Remake Is Happening

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Disney’s remake of its sci-fi un-classic The Black Hole has pulled a new writer into its event horizon.

The Hollywood Reporter says that Prometheus co-writer Jon Spaihts — the guy who penned that Alien prequel before Damon Lindelof came aboard — has been hired to “kickstart” the film.

We’ve been hearing about this picture — a remake of the studio’s 1979 attempt at cashing in on the Star Wars phenomenon — for several years now, ever since Joseph Kosinski started talking it up while making Tron: Legacy for Disney (Travis Beacham was on script duties at the time). Kosinski is still attached to direct, with his Tron producer Justin Springer producing.

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The "Empire Strikes Back" of the Tron Series?

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Tron 3, the sequel to Tron: Legacy (and the third film in the series after the original 1982 Tron), picked up some steam last week with the announcement that screenwriter Jesse Wigutow (Peter and the Starcatchers, Eragon) had been hired to rewrite the film. And now director Joseph Kosinski, who helmed Legacy and is attached to Tron 3, is talking about his plans for the third film in the series.

“I’ve said it would have to be our Empire Strikes Back for me to come back and for me to pull the whole team back together,” he tells Collider. “I think we do have that idea. We do have the idea that feels big and really blows the doors off this franchise. It’s hinted at promises of something for two movies now, for thirty years, so it’s time to deliver on that. But the script’s got to be at a level that makes it worth going back for, because it’s a lot of work to make a movie like this and it’s a multi-year project. So we’ve got our writer Jesse Wigutow on it right now writing, and fingers crossed if it all comes together, as we hope it will, there could be another Tron in the next few years, and it’s going to be awesome.”

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Source: IGN Movies