Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Life, Technology tagged 1080i, 2k, 3k, 4k, 720p, Apple, blu-ray, content, downloadable, expensive, hd, independent, RED, sony
As a follow up on my last post on the costs of licensing Blu-Ray, I sent a little e-mail to Larry Jordan to confirm that small production runs of Blu-Ray discs are prohibitively expensive. Larry replied that it seems indeed that Sony does not want independent producers to embrace this delivery format.So, most ...
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Posted in Film, Technology tagged blu-ray, cost, costs, distribution, duplication, expensive, fee, independent, production, replication
Mike Flynn has a very interesting post on the costs associated with producing content on Blu-Ray:
[P]roducers of industrial and non-broadcast content are required to pay a $2,500 licensing fee to author and distribute Blu-Ray. Then, each producer is required to pay a $3,000 one-time AACS license fee, plus a per-title ...
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In my past two choices of films-to-see I have been a bit unfortunate. Both films were critically highly acclaimed, had great acting, great direction, superb photography, flawless editing. But I disliked, no: hated, no: loathed the stories.
The Departed features an unusual cruel gangster, played by Jack Nicholson, who, after killing ...
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This weekend will again host the very popular, and looked-forward to, Academy Awards, better knows as the Oscar. Movieposteraddict has put up a great collection of all the posters of the Best Picture award winners of the past 79 years.
My favourite poster would be The Godfather. Simple in style, and ...
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As a blogger, one soon attracts unwanted attention. Fortunately, there are tools that automatically block spam comments. Askimet and SpamKarma are the two I am employing on this blog.But of late, there have been coming in new types of comments (and not just here). Genuine comments, but with a link ...
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