I am happy to announce that today I am launching www.cinetechgeek.com, a VIDEO blog on the tech side of the cinema industry. As a DCI cinema tech and developer, there is a large problem developing in that projectionists are not well informed of the changing technology in their field. I have produced these videos in a hope to help them transition to the new future of digital cinema. But at the same time I like covering the older tech to show where we have come from and why we must move forward.
This has been a lot of work and is the main reason my personal blog has gotten less attention over the past few months.
Please do give it a look. I still need to get it into iTunes. Tho it is all ready and primed. Just a few loose ends.
Also, can anyone tell me if its worth using feed burner?
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1 Davis Freeberg // Feb 11, 2009 at 12:31 am
It looks like a great site. It’s the perfect idea for a blog. I don’t know of any other projectionist related sites, so it fills an important niche. I can’t say that I’m a big fan of feed burner myself mostly because it’s hard to leave them and keep your RSS subs, but I don’t know of any other RSS advertising solution. When it comes to the projectionist news, the two stories that I’d like t see is 1.) Whether or not television is making it to these digital projectors and what impact it’s having. When I was a kid my local theater would have bingo games before the movie for free popcorn and what not. I imagine a world, where you can one day go into a theater on a weeknight and watch event television. We’ve seen this a little with some of the 3D basketball and NFL, but I want to see theater dating nights where they show The Bachelor and singles can mingle or a Survivor themed game where you can vote people out of the tribe at the theater. I think if someone did it right, they could re-energize weekday theater attendance.
The second thing that I’m interested in is all of the competing sound certifications. It used to be everything was in DTS and/or THX, but then Sony introduced SDDI and a lot of theaters went in that direction. I’d love to know where sound technology has evolved over the last decade.
Good luck with the new site, I’m looking forward to future posts.
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