ABSTRACT
No textbook on media is complete without emphasis on technology. Dan Ochiva, Founder and President of NYC Production and Post News (nycppnews.com), provides an authoritative tour of media technology’s past, present and future, including the Lumière brothers, Thomas Edison, W. K. L. Dickson, William Friese-Greene, kinetograph, kinetoscope, Charles Francis Jenkins, Thomas Armat, Vitascope, Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, D. W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Abel Gance, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Mitchell NC, CinemaScope, Panavision, anamorphic lenses, aspect ratios, 70mm, Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean, Bach Auricon, Éclair, Arri, Nagra, Bolex, cinema verité, Jean Rouch, Frederick Wiseman, D. A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock, David Maysles, Primary, Robert L. Drew, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Eastman Kodak, analog vs. digital, Don Juan, The Jazz Singer, Lee DeForest, Ampex, Bing Crosby, Stefan Kudelski, Dolby, digital audio tape (DAT), compact disc (CD), mise en scène, Home Box Office (HBO), community antenna television (CATV), satellite technology, “KU” band satellites, high-definition television (HDTV), NHK, National Television System Committee (NTSC), Phase Alternating Line (PAL), Sequential Color and Memory (SECAM), pixels, resolution, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), Dolby AC-3 audio, interlaced vs. progressive, 2K, 4K, 24p, 25p, 30p, 50p, 60p, 60i, 1080p, 1080i, 720p.
CineAlta, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Red camera, Ultra HD (UHD), high-efficiency video coding (HEVC), Netflix, Aaton, digital video (DV), Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, sampling, scan line, discrete cosine transform (DCT), MPEG-2, H.264, Sony’s DVCAM, Panasonic’s DVCPRO, solid state disk, solid state drive (SSD), USB, sensors, charge couple device (CCD), complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), Thomas Vinterberg, The Celebration, Danny Boyle, 28 Days Later, digital single lens reflex (DSLR), Nikon D1, Canon, Olympus, Pentax, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Iron Man 2, Captain America, depth of field (DOF), bit rate, Mbit/s, Mbps, bytes, MB/s, MBps, digital signal processing (DSP), codec, algorithm, MPEG-4, advanced video coding high definition (AVCHD), high efficiency video coding (HEVC), multicasting, gelatin, non-linear editing (NLE), Google Glass, iMovie, Pinnacle Studio, CBS, CMX-600, Avid, Macintosh, PC, digital intermediate (DI), central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU).
Singin’ in the Rain, Oklahoma, The Ten Commandments, 70mm film, Ben-Hur, This is Cinerama, Cinerama, VistaVision, Technirama, Superscope, 2.35:1, 1.85:1, 3-D, Avatar, Imax, D-Box, 4DX, digital micromirror device (DMD), liquid-crystal display (LCD), digital light processing (DLP), Texas Instruments, xenon lamp, solid state drives (SSDs), Barco, Christie, Technicolor, trailers, commercials, Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC), Regal Theatres, Warner Bros., AMC theatres, Universal, NEC, Sony, value added resellers (VAR), Kodak, Deluxe, Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI), 2K, 4K, 6K, National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Strand Theatre, Rialto Theatre, Fox Village Theatre, Walter Murch, Vitaphone, Fantasia, Star Wars, John Williams, George Lucas, Tomlinson Holman, Dolby Atmos, videocassette recorder (VCR), Sony Betamax, Japan Victor Company (JVC), VHS, time shift, digital virtual disc, digital video disc, DVD, Sun, Dell, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R/RW, DVD-Video, DVD-Video Recording, DVD-Audio, DVD-Audio Recording, DVD Stream Recording, Super Audio CD (SACD).
1080p/60, Blu-ray, Toshiba, Sony Playstation, 4K Ultra HD video, UltraViolet, standard definition (SD), iTunes Store, digital video recorder (DVR), personal video recorder (PVR), TiVo, Replay, video on demand (VOD), interactive television (ITV), Qube, pay-per-view (PPV), multiple system operators (MSO), SeaChange, Open TV, Nagravision, Xbox, Roku, Internet protocol television (IPTV), Ethernet, Wifi, Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5, Xbox One, Playstation 4, high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), Kinect, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), iOS, Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), PLex, Google Chromecast, LG, Panasonic, Phillips, Toshiba, Spotify, Skype, PlayJam Games, Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, MLB.TV, AirPlay, iPad, iPod, Amazon Fire TV, Twitter, Facebook, Crackle, Yahoo, House of Cards, Alpha House, Jerry Seinfeld, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, YouTube, Freddie Wong, Jenna Marbles, Machinima, Maker Studios.
Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer 3 (MP3), Windows Media, QuickTime, Real Media, rip, burn, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Internet service provider (ISP), Napster, digital rights management (DRM), Steve Jobs, over-the-top content (OTT), TV Everywhere, Star Tours, Disneyland, virtual reality (VR), Oculus Rift, Sony’s Project Morpheus headset, Microsoft’s HoloLens, Samsung’s GameFace, Avegant Glyph, Razer OSVR, Android, Linux, Windows, Oculus VR, Rift headset, RakNet, big data, “the Internet of things.”
