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Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) V 2.0

DIGITAL IMMERSIVE GIANT SCREEN SPECIFICATIONS (DIGSS) V 2.0 Work is currently underway for DIGSS 3.0. If you are interested in participating in this update, please contact Tammy Barrett Giant Screen Cinema Association Executive Director. Introduction This is the third formal revision of the DIGSS 1.0 document that was the result of the Digital Immersive Screen Colloquium for Unified Standards and Specifications (DISCUSS), a three-day meeting organized by the White Oak Institute in Marblehead, MA, in June 2010. DISCUSS brought together a panel [...]

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) V 2.02025-10-28T18:46:54+00:00

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.2

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.2 September 22, 2015—GSCA is pleased to announce the release of the Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.2, the second formal revision of the DIGSS 1.0 document that was the result of the Digital Immersive Screen Colloquium for Unified Standards and Specifications (DISCUSS). In DIGSS version 1.2, the GSCA technical committee made relatively modest changes to the values of several specifications in Section 1 to reflect the latest advances in technology (e.g., laser‐illuminated projection and object‐based sound [...]

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.22024-11-22T22:34:49+00:00

LED Technology for Digital Domes

Dome theaters have consistently faced the historic challenges of 1) low contrast due to light bounce across the dome surface, 2) the need for multiple projectors to create acceptable resolution, 3) low brightness due to low reflectivity of the dome surface to minimize light bounce and scatter, and 4) the maintenance of a complex projection system and cost of lamps and other consumables. Enter the LED dome. This breakthrough, game-changing technology addresses all of the historic concerns: 1) LED offers nearly unlimited contrast, 2) the [...]

LED Technology for Digital Domes2023-12-06T17:53:49+00:00

Aspect Ratios: The Shape of Cinema

Nothing could be as boring as aspect ratios, right? Well, you haven’t seen Jonathan Bird’s exciting and fascinating look at aspect ratios and how we got to where we are today. This short presentation looks at the history of aspect ratio in cinema, how it affected lens design, film evolution, projector design and culminated in the unique (some would say odd) 1.43:1 aspect ratio of IMAX. And while something as mundane as aspect ratio might not seem very exciting, it is in fact the very [...]

Aspect Ratios: The Shape of Cinema2023-12-06T19:27:05+00:00