Compression of Moving Pictures for Digital Cinema Using the MPEG-2 Toolkit

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 110, No. 6, pp. 359–364
Abstract: The scope of compression techniques provided in the MPEG-2 toolkit is brood enough to meet today's expectations of the picture quality of digital cinema theatrical presentations with enhancements in rate control, 4:4:4 chroma format color space, and greater color precision than the profiles that are defined for television. This optimization for the unique requirements of digital cinema, while beyond currently defined MPEG profiles, is enabled by the wide range of the MPEG-2 toolkit and can be implemented using standard off-the-shelf silicon devices.
Publication Date: 2001-06-01
DOI: 10.5594/J11603
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J11603
Author(s): Michael W. BrunsGrass Valley Group, Beaverton, OR 97006.
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Michael Bruns is a principal engineer with the Grass Valley Group, working on development for the company's Profile XP media server. He was responsible for the first MPEG decoder based on standard silicon at Tektronix in 1995 and has followed developments across three product lines up to the present. Before joining the media server development group, he led the architecture and hardware design of a high-definition serial video to OC-48 SONET/ATM interface. — Bruns is the author of several technical papers and one patent. A member of SMPTE, he participates in the study group on digital cinema.
James T. WhittleseyGrass Valley Group, Beaverton, OR 97006.
bio
James Whittlesey is senior hardware engineer at the Beaverton Design Center for the Grass Valley Group. A member of GVG since the company acquired Tektronix Inc.' s Video and Networking Division (VND), he was instrumental in designing the standard definition, 2-channel MPEG encoder board for the company's Profile XP media platform. As part of VND, he worked on the original Profile videodisk server prototype, designing the MPEG codec, SCSI disk interface, and realtime processor. — Whittlesey is a member of SMPTE and participates in the three study groups on digital cinema: audio, projection, and theater systems.
Copyright: © 2001 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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SMPTE Technology Committee on Digital Cinema—DC28: A Status Report [Active]
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2. D-ILA is another projector technology used for digital cinema presentation of Star Wars, Episode I The Phantom Menace (summer 1999 ). Manufactured by JVC Visual System Division , Carlsbad, CA . EXTERNAL
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10. ISO/IRC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N3542. Draft Call for Proposals for Digital Cinema v0.1, Beijing, July 2000. EXTERNAL

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