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Film-to-Tape Goes Digital: Tackling Telecine Issues for DTV and HDTV (Part II)

This is the second part of a two-part series on film-to-tape trends and technologies. Part I (February 1998) encapsulated the historical developments in film-to-tape that brought production and postproduction industries to the threshold of HDTV and DTV. This article analyzes the issues surrounding the shift to digital TV. The author, D.W. Leitner, a contributing editor to Millimeter, is also an editor, DP and director, with credits in film, TV, and documentaries. In a nutshell, both the Philips Spirit DataCine and the Cintel C-Reality high-rez telecine seek to make possible what Philips cutely calls "film-2-data." The idea is simple ...

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