One of the key issues for a successful roll out of digital cinema is in the quality it offers. The most practical and least expensive way of measuring quality of multimedia content is through the use of objective metrics. In addition to the widely used objective quality metric peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), recently other metrics such as single scale structural similarity (SS-SSIM) and mult...

The digital cinema is very challenging because it represents tomorrow way of capturing, post-producing and projecting movies. Specifications on this media are provided by DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) founded by the Hollywood Majors. Among the specifications we can find issues about resolution, bitrate, JPEG2000 compression Moreover, the market assumes that 3D could raise the turnover of cin...

3D television (TV) and cinema have experienced a recent surge in popularity aided in part by the success of films such as "Toy Story 3" and "Avatar". In parallel with this trend there have been increasing concerns about the safety of 3D TV and cinema for patients with photosensitive epilepsy. General practitioners, paediatricians and neurologists are being consulted about their opinions on the ...

This article presents a holistic approach to the study of genres in book publishing that includes formal aspects literary texts, marketing strategies and categorisations used by producers, perspectives on how these labels are perceived readers critics, as well temporal spatial understanding evolve. The empirical point departure is recent boom Nordic Noir, exemplified following three Swedish aut...