Here are some audio and video trends for 2019:
The global Hi-Fi Systems market was valued at million US$ in 2018 and is expected to grow. EISA Awards has selected Hi-Fi product category winners, but I did not see anything really fancy new innovations that would excite me there. The Hi-Fi speaker market has seen considerable consolidation over the years but is expected to grow. The global Hi-Fi speaker system market is highly competitive. Various established international brands, domestic brands and as well as new entrants form a competitive landscape. The market is expected to have higher growth rate as compared to the previous years due to the booming electronic industry globally. It is due to the rising income of individuals globally and increasing affordability of technology products globally. Due to technological adoption and smart gadgets, North America region is showing steady growth in the Hi-Fi speaker system market. On technology standpoint the Hi-Fi market is mainly based on pretty much stabilized technology as class D amplifiers have been on mainstream for many years.
Smart TVs are everywhere. The vast majority of televisions available today are “smart” TVs, with internet connections, ad placement, and streaming services built in. Despite the added functionality, TV prices are lower than ever. Your new smart TV was so affordable because it is collecting and selling your data. It is clear that TV companies are in a cutthroat business, and that companies like Vizio would have to charge higher prices for hardware if they didn’t run content, advertising, and data businesses. Google wants sensors and cameras in every room of your home to watch, analyze, you, patents show.
Streaming services competition stays high. Apple’s embracing the TV industry for the first time: Vizio and LG TVs will support AirPlay 2 and HomeKit, while Samsung TVs will get an iTunes Movies & TV app, as well as AirPlay 2 support. Google and Amazon are playing are important players on smart speaker markets.
4K video resolution is still as hot as in 2019 – it us becoming mainstream and getting cheaper. Peraso showcases 4K wireless video at CES 2019. LG has produced a market-ready rollable OLED TV. The new 75-inch 4K Micro LED TV announced at CES 2019 proves Samsung is serious about scaling the technology to do battle with OLED. But it seems that even in 1029 “4K” trend remains woefully deficient from a compelling-content-availability standpoint. CES 2019 is already full of weird and wonderful monitors.
But new higher 8K resolution is being pushed to market. The “8K” (resolution) tagline was apparently everywhere at CES this year. Samsung announced a 98-inch 8K TV because why not. LG has come strong to CES 2019 with an 88-inch 8K OLED TV, a 75-inch 8K LED/LCD TV, HDMI 2.1, new auto calibration features, Alexa built in, and many more features. It seems that this ongoing evolution is occurring out of necessity: as a given-size (and -pixel-dense) display becomes a low profit margin commodity, manufacturers need to continually “up-rev” one or both key consumer-attention-grabbing parameters (along with less quantifiable attributes like image quality) in order to remain profitable … assuming they can continue to stimulate sufficient-sized consumer demand in the process. I am not sure if they can stimulate 8K to mass market in next few years.
Wall size TVs are coming. Samsung announced a modular TV at CES. Samsung first showcased this MicroLED TV technology at CES 2018, showcasing how the screens were composed of millions of individual LEDs. Individuals screens could be combined to create massive displays, which the company calls The Wall TV. The wall-sized displays shown in recent years at CES are, in my opinion, quite ridiculous, at least for the masses.
HDMI updates are coming. At present, the HDMI equipment uses the 2.0 standard (adopted in 2013) tht provides support for example for 4K video. HDMI Forum announced a new 2.1 standard already in November 2017, but it just starter showing in CES in January 2019. 8K fiber-optic HDMI cables seen at CES 2019. The 2.1 standard is a big change in technology at the bus bandwidth increases from 18 gigabit to 48 gigabits per second. This enables up to 10K video transmission and up to 120 frames per second.
Bendable displays are really coming to PCs and smart phones. LG’s “rollable” display shown this year neatly showcased the technology’s inherent flexibility while also addressing the question of how to hide a gargantuan display when it’s not in use. Several foldable smart phones have been shown. Chinese company Royole was showing off the FlexPai at CES in Las Vegas.
Micro displays for VR and AR glasses have developed. MicroLED is better looking, more efficient and more versatile than any previous display tech. Now all Samsung, Sony, LG and others have to do is figure out how to manufacture it affordably.Nanoco Technologies and Plessey Semiconductors have partnered to shrink the pixel size of monolithic microLED displays using Nanoco’s cadmium-free quantum-dot (CFQD quantum dots) semiconductor nanoparticle technology. Microchips and organic LEDs that deliver 4K-like high resolution displays a quarter of the size and half the weight of existing virtual reality (VR) headsets have been developed under a European Union project. Marc Andreessen says VR will be “1,000” times bigger than AR even though VR seems to be the popular whipping boy amongst the tech community.
There seems to be no shortage of angst with the current (and unfortunately burgeoning) popularity of usage of the term artificial intelligence (AI). Intelligence has been defined in many ways which makes it hard to get good picture on what is going on. I am still waiting for sensible intelligent AI to do something useful. But the ability for a sufficiently trained deep learning system to pattern-match images, sound samples, computer viruses, network hacking attempts, and the like is both impressive and effective.
Potential problems related to the coming of self-driving car technologies and cameras are expected. A man at CES in Las Vegas says that a car-mounted lidar permanently damaged the sensor in his new $1,998 Sony a7R II mirrorless camera. Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his $1,998 camera because the LIDAR laser power rules ensure lasers are safe for human eyes—but not necessarily for cameras. Is this something that camera and car manufacturers need to figure out together?
2019 Will Be the Year of Open Source from software and even hardware. Open source video player app VLC has now reached 3 billions downloads.
When almost all AV products are pushing more and more features, it seems that almost Everything is too complicated for an average Joe.
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Stop motion film making example
“Missing Link”. Chris Butler (2019)
Stop Motion by @laikastudios
Via @behind_the_cameras
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Far out: Vangelis on the science and power of music
By Mark Powell (Prog) December 05, 2016
https://www.loudersound.com/features/far-out-vangelis-on-the-science-and-power-of-music
In a rare interview, Prog joins the notoriously reclusive Vangelis in Paris for an in-depth discussion on his five decades in music
Vangelis Solo Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWB7KWS9CA
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Fotogalerie: Jak operátoři pokrývají pražské metro LTE signálem
https://www.lupa.cz/galerie/jak-operatori-pokryvaji-metro-lte-signalem/
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Tässä ovat maailman parhaat valokuvat viime vuodelta
18.04.2020 klo 6:02
World Photography Awards 2020 -kisan voittajat valittiin kaikkiaan kymmenessä kategoriassa.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/853b54dc-2429-468b-a367-1b5521f6eb4a
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8D tunes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRpYEytIHGyDgNWO6VbHlQ
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https://www.thomann.de/blog/fi/top-5-melunvastaiset-kuulokkeet-2020/
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Mini record cutter lets music lovers cut their own vinyl in minutes
https://newatlas.com/music/yuri-suzuki-gakken-mini-record-cutter/
Musician and designer Yuri Suzuki has collaborated with Japanese education company Gakken to create a cute little record cutting machine that gets music-making consumers cutting their own five-inch vinyl records in a few short minutes.
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Asumisen synnyttämälle melulle ei voida asettaa desibelirajoja, mutta huoneistoja erottaville rakenteille voidaan. Lue Mikko Kylliäisen blogisarjasta, mitä määräykset sanovat ääneneristyksestä.
https://www.ains.fi/blogit/aaniymparistoa-koskevat-maaraykset-kayttajalahtoisiksi/
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Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
Roc Nation files copyright claim over deepfake YouTube videos which use AI to impersonate Jay-Z’s voice, raising new copyright and fair use questions — On Friday, I linked to several videos by Vocal Synthesis, a new YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes — AI-generated speech …
With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake audio parodies off YouTube
https://waxy.org/2020/04/jay-z-orders-deepfake-audio-parodies-off-youtube/
On Friday, I linked to several videos by Vocal Synthesis, a new YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes — AI-generated speech that mimics human voices, synthesized from text by training a state-of-the-art neural network on a large corpus of audio.
The videos are remarkable, pairing famous voices with unlikely dialogue: Bob Dylan singing Britney Spears, Ayn Rand and Slavoj Žižek dueting Sonny and Cher, Tucker Carlson reading the Unabomber Manifesto, Bill Clinton reciting “Baby Got Back,” or JFK touting the intellectual merits of Rick and Morty.
Many of the videos have been remixed by fans, adding music to create hilarious and surreal musical mashups.
Over the weekend, for the first time, the anonymous creator of Vocal Synthesis received a copyright claim on YouTube, taking two of his videos offline with deepfaked audio of Jay-Z reciting the “To Be or Not To Be” soliloquy from Hamlet and Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRt-fquxnij9wDnFJnpPS2Q
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AMC Theaters Will No Longer Play Universal Movies After Trolls World Tour’s On-Demand Success
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/20/04/29/2140211/amc-theaters-will-no-longer-play-universal-movies-after-trolls-world-tours-on-demand-success?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29
AMC Theaters will no longer play Universal movies after Trolls World Tour’s on-demand success
The decision came after recent comments from NBCUniversal’s chief exec
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21240637/amc-theaters-universal-trolls-world-tour-disney-warnermedia-digital-streaming
AMC Theatres will no longer play Universal films effective immediately after “unacceptable” comments were made from NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell on its decision to bypass a traditional theatrical release for Trolls World Tour and make it a digital exclusive, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jeff Shell noted that Trolls World Tour succeeded their expectations, pulling in nearly $100 million in revenue through digital sales alone and more than five million copies sold.
As a result, Shell noted that as “soon as theaters reopen, we expect to release movies on both formats,” meaning some movies would continue with theatrical releases while others would go directly to digital retailers or possibly land on NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, Peacock. The move led to a lengthy statement from AMC Theatres chair-CEO Adam Aron, who claimed that Shell’s comments were “unacceptable.”
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How TV commercial magic is filmed
https://www.facebook.com/195610820484477/posts/2924214294290769/
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2020/04/29/taskukoossa-360-asteen-videokuvaa-8k-tarkkuudella/
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https://www.thomann.de/blog/fi/ohjekirja-hiljaisuuden-kuuntelijoille/
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How to View the Spectrum in Audacity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbZa99ocPU
How to Use Frequency Analysis In Audacity During the Mixing Process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x78d-1l_edY
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AWS launches the $995 Elemental Link for streaming video to its cloud
https://tcrn.ch/3c3UJkV
AWS today announced the launch of the Elemental Link, a small hardware device that makes it easy to connect a live video source to the AWS Elemental Media Live service for broadcast-grade live video processing in the cloud. The $995 Link, which weighs in at less than a pound, is meant to allow Media Live users to connect a camera or video production setup to the AWS cloud.
The fanless Link has an Ethernet port and inputs for either an HD-SDI or HDMI cable. In the AWS Management Console, it’ll show up as a media source for MediaLive and it’ll automatically adapt the streaming video based on available bandwidth.
“In sophisticated environments, dedicated hardware and an associated A/V team can capture, encode, and stream or store video that meets these expectations,” explains AWS’s Jeff Barr in today’s announcement. “However, cost and operational complexity have prevented others from delivering a similar experience. Classrooms, local sporting events, enterprise events, and small performance spaces do not have the budget or the specialized expertise needed to install, configure, and run the hardware and software needed to reliably deliver video to the cloud for processing, storage, and on-demand delivery or live streaming.”
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CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??? “This technique allowed them to transmit sound to a person more than 8.2 feet away at a volume of 60 decibels — about the loudness of background music or a conversation in a restaurant — without anyone between the source of the sound and the target hearing it.”
No longer a conspiracy theory: MIT scientists confirm they possess technology to beam voices into your head
https://www.newstarget.com/2019-02-06-mit-scientists-confirm-technology-to-beam-voices-into-your-head.html
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Photoacoustic communications: delivering audible signals via absorption of light by atmospheric H2O
https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-44-3-622
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I’m Back® 35 – An 50′s camera that takes digital photos?
Are you analog and have a roll already? I am not jealous. I’m Back®35.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/im-back-35-new-version-with-manual-priority-function
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You’re not the only one being annoyed by bad audio at work
Bad audio is bad business
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/epos-audio-sound
Did you know that office workers lose 29 minutes of productivity every week because of poor sound quality?
That figure adds up – it’s almost two hours a month. That’s a huge amount of time – which means reduced output and lowered employee satisfaction. It’s a large amount of money, too: that 29 minutes of lost productivity means £389.48 of wasted expenditure annually per employee. If you’ve got ten members of staff, that’s nearly £4,000 lost per year – and it’s nearly £40,000 if your company has 100 staff. It’s a sum that can further spiral as more people spend increasing amounts of time on video and conference calls.
These startling findings emerged from a survey commissioned by global market research firm IPSOS and high-end audio brand EPOS. When it comes to bad audio causing workplace disruption, it’s just the start.
The survey found that 87 per cent of respondents had experienced issues due to poor sound, with background noise, repetition and interference all being cited as big irritations – and that 69 per cent had spent more time on tasks due to audio problems.
Astoundingly, 95 per cent of workers admitted that their concentration and efficiency has suffered due to persistent audio problems, with noisy offices and loud colleagues the biggest issues. It’s undeniable: stressed, annoyed and embarrassed workers won’t be at their best.
Those interruptions, irritations and disruptions all mean that an exasperated “what?” is the most expensive word in business – and one of the most familiar.
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Baidu’s AI Produces Short Videos in One Click
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/baidus-ai-produces-short-videos-in-one-click
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”Ylen strategiapaperi onnistuukin tavoitteissaan: kertomaan siitä, millainen Yle on. Se on pelokas, hidas, latteuteensa ihastunut ja niin hukassa sekä sisällön että ilmaisun kanssa, että pitää merkittävänä aikaansaannoksena turhaa strategiapaperia, josta kukaan ei välittänyt.”
Jyrki Lehtolan kolumni: Et koskaan nukahda yksin, Yleisradio nukkuu jo kanssasi https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006514899.html
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https://brightside.me/wonder-people/100-year-old-photos-of-the-most-beautiful-women-of-the-last-century-606110/
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Ääniversumi
Helsingin reitit 2010-2020
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How I Podcast: Articles of Interest’s Avery Trufelman
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/21/how-i-podcast-articles-of-interests-avery-trufelman/
The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hardware and software solutions open to potential podcasters, so setups run the gamut from NPR studios to USB Skype rigs (the latter of which has become a kind of default during the current pandemic).
We’ve asked some of our favorite podcast hosts and producers to highlight their workflows — the equipment and software they use to get the job done.
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A new artificial eye mimics and may outperform human eyes
The high-tech device boasts a field of view and reaction time similar to that of real eyes
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-artificial-eye-mimics-may-outperform-human-eyes
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How to make the most of your at-home videoconference setup: Microphone edition
Sound makes the remote world go ’round
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/22/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-at-home-videoconference-setup-microphone-edition/
Working from home isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and a slew of companies just announced longer-term initiatives to make their remote work practices either extend or permanent. That means for some it’s the perfect time to take their at-home videoconferencing setup even further, so we’re going to take a closer look at various core elements to build on our initial exploration of what can help you improve your video call or live broadcasting game. Today, it’s all about audio.
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https://www.thomann.de/blog/fi/10-historiaa-tehnytta-studiota/
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What Would Movies Look Like Without Special Effects?
https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/what-would-movies-look-like-without-special-effects-120855/?utm_source=fb_brightside&utm_medium=fb_organic&utm_campaign=fb_gr_gorgeous_side
As moviemaking technologies get more and more advanced, we see more and more fantastic worlds come to life on the big screen.
Bright Side gives you the opportunity to compare the filming process with the final result we see in the movie theaters!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_system_measurements
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20+ Movie Details Most Viewers Didn’t Notice at All
https://brightside.me/wonder-films/22-movie-details-most-viewers-dont-notice-at-all-584160/?utm_source=fb_7secondriddles&utm_medium=fb_organic&utm_campaign=fb_gr_7secondriddles
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12 Myths We Believe in Thanks to Hollywood
https://brightside.me/wonder-films/12-myths-we-believe-in-thanks-to-hollywood-639510/
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When we think of a speaker, we are likely to imagine a paper cone with a coil of wire somewhere at the bottom of it suspended in a magnetic field. It’s a hundred-plus-year-old technology that has been nearly perfected. The moving coil is not however the only means of turning an electrical current into a sound. A number of components will make a sound when exposed to audio, including to the surprise of , the humble incandescent light bulb. [ 145 more words ]
https://hackaday.com/2020/06/08/a-50w-speaker-made-of-light-bulbs/
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Miniature set Cinematic Car B ROLL by @sebastianjern
Cam : a7riii with probelens
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How to set up your nice camera as a high-quality webcam in 5 minutes
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/10/how-to-get-your-nice-camera-set-up-as-a-high-quality-webcam/
Our guide to setting up a professional-looking home webcam solution with lighting, audio and all the other fixins is here, but getting your DSLR or mirrorless camera hooked up to your computer isn’t as simple as it ought to be.
Now, you could spend $100 or so to get a capture card or dongle that converts your camera’s signal to HDMI, and be done with it. But if you want to be up and running a few minutes from now, here are the software-only solutions for your camera and OS — if any.
Surprisingly, you can’t just take a camera released in the last couple years and plug it into your computer and expect it to work. So far only Canon, Fujifilm and Panasonic provide free webcam functionality to at least one desktop OS. For Nikon, Sony and Olympus, you may have to pay or put up with a watermark.
Here are the easiest ways to put each brand of camera to work.
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How to create the best at-home videoconferencing setup, for every budget
This is the stuff you need to make the most of our brave new remote world
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/how-to-create-the-best-at-home-videoconferencing-setup-for-every-budget/
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Upgrading to a 4K UHDTV
https://www.edn.com/upgrading-to-a-4k-uhdtv/
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“Now it’s officially number one on IMDb, which is crazy. It was number one for 10 June.”
By exploiting a loophole, this is how two friends managed to hit the top of the US box office charts with a film made entirely on Zoom.
Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’
https://bbc.in/3eift9M
In normal times, blockbuster movies usually dominate the box office charts.
But on 10 June, one box office-topping movie was watched by just two people, in one cinema.
Unsubscribe, a 29-minute horror movie shot entirely on video-conferencing app Zoom, generated $25,488 (£20,510) in ticket sales on that day.
The budget of the movie: a flat $0. How was that possible?
“I noticed that the box office figures were absurd; $9,000, $15,000 for each movie. Nothing big was coming out. Blockbuster films were on hold. I wanted to find a way to get the biggest number,” Mr Tabach told the BBC.
To reach the top of the box office, Mr Tabach and Mr Nilsson realised they had to game the system. They did so by exploiting a loophole in cinema ticket sales, known as four-walling.
“Four-walling is when distributors rent out a movie theatre and buy all the seats,” Mr Tabach, who used to work at BuzzFeed making viral videos, explained.
“Four-walling is when distributors rent out a movie theatre and buy all the seats,” Mr Tabach, who used to work at BuzzFeed making viral videos, explained.
With little more than a concept and a can-do attitude, the pair set to work on making the movie.
Mr Nilsson wrote the script in one day. The movie is about five YouTubers who join an online video-call and find themselves haunted and hunted by a mysterious internet troll.
“It was at a point in the quarantine when everyone was really bored. Absolutely nothing was going on. Everyone wanted to be a part of this fun project, for free.”
They shot the movie over five days in May, only using Zoom to capture footage. Mr Nilsson then edited the footage and asked a friend to compose a score. Within weeks, it was cinema-ready.
They decided to screen the movie at an independent theatre in Westhampton Beach, outside New York City, where Mr Nilsson used to work. To rent the theatre, they were required to pay a small fee.
In that sense, “we made a slight loss” on the movie, Mr Tabach said.
Dressed in tuxedos, with their hair neatly swept back, Mr Tabach and Mr Nilsson stood proudly outside the theatre. Above their heads, the theatre’s hoarding bore the title of their movie. Unsubscribe, it read, above the words “sold out”.
They had bought every ticket, of course, but it did not matter.
“We showed up, got some popcorn, sat down and played it. I’ve never seen an empty movie theatre, not least one playing a film I was in and made. It was a really cool experience. I watched every screening, over and over again,” Mr Tabach said.
Once the revenue results were in, the next task was to convince IMDb, the owner of Box Office Mojo, their movie was legitimate.
“They kept rejecting us, saying there was no proof,” Mr Tabach said. “So we sent them pictures of the actors, but they kept on doubting the entire thing. When media outlets started reporting about the film, it was eventually approved.
“Now it’s officially number one on IMDb, which is crazy. It was number one for 10 June.”
But Mr Tabach said the film, which can be viewed on streaming platform Vimeo, represents more than a box-office ruse.
“No matter what, you can always find creative ways to get something done. Even in difficult circumstances. It was cool to see all these people stuck at home come together and make a project,” he said.
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3 Free Photography Cheat Sheets That Will Help You Understand the Basics
https://photzy.com/3-free-photography-cheat-sheets-that-will-help-you-understand-the-basics/
As photographers, we’re always striving to create the perfect photos each time we press the shutter button. If you want to get consistent results, without relying on luck, the best thing is to know and practice, the fundamentals of photography.
This post provides you with 3 printable cheat sheets from our best-selling Snap Cards: Essentials set for free to help you on your quest to master the basics of photography- especially when you need it the most- when you’re out taking photos.
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Gold Cables Really Do Work The Best
https://hackaday.com/2020/04/01/gold-cables-really-do-work-the-best/
As a writer, I have long harboured a dream that one day an editor will buy me a top-of-the-range audio analyser, and I can set up an audio test lab and write pieces debunking the spurious claims made by audiophiles, HiFi journalists, and the high-end audio industry about the quality of their products. Does that amp really lend an incisive sibilance to the broader soundstage, and can we back that up with some measurable figures rather than purple prose?
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6 ways UVC drivers changed the video capture industry & what it means for the consumer
https://www.epiphan.com/blog/6-ways-uvc-changed-video-capture-industry-what-it-means-for-consumer/
To use a video grabber before UVC technology came along, the capture computer needed to be configured with the proper drivers and capture software. Grabbers were limited in use to their configured capture computer or other computers with the same setup.
With the introduction of UVC drivers in all major operating systems, UVC-compatible grabbers don’t need any installation or set-up and are able to immediately capture content. The video grabber shifts from being an extension of its capture computer to becoming a true accessory of its capture device (i.e. video camera, tablet, HDTV). This decoupling of the video grabber from one specific capture computer creates true portability in video grabber capture.
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BINA-VIEW: A Fascinating Mechanical Interference Display
https://hackaday.com/2020/04/07/bina-view-a-fascinating-mechanical-interference-display/
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Organic Audio: Putting Carrots As Audio Couplers To The Test
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/06/organic-audio-putting-carrots-as-audio-couplers-to-the-test/
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The Hacker History Of Music Technologies
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/06/the-hacker-history-of-music-technologies/