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Part 1: DTS Digital Images Leading the Charge
Part 2:
SpeedGrade in the Lowry Pipeline
Part 3: Working Together to Make it
Better
Part 4:
The Story of John Lowry and DTS Digital Images |
Mike Inchalik is VP of Strategy and Marketing with DTS Digital Images.
Prior to joining DTS Digital Images (then Lowry Digital Images) in 2003,
he held a number of positions at Eastman Kodak. Among other things, Mike
was responsible for the design and development of Kodak's very first
digital film scanner in the 1970's. He also led Kodak's Cineon team
which defined most of the standards for digital film that are still in
use today.
We spoke with Mike about the story of DTS/Lowry and the role of
SpeedGrade DI in one of the most advanced pipelines in the world.
IRIDAS: How did Lowry Digital get started?
Mike: John Lowry started DTS Digital Images (formerly Lowry Digital
Images) based on a vision of change. He saw a rapidly escalating demand
for higher image quality fueled by DVD, advances in display
technologies, and the imminent adoption of High Definition. Moreover,
John was convinced that the traditional video postproduction tools
available would be unable to deliver this quality.
IRIDAS: So he needed to create new tools for
this?
Mike: Remember, John has been on the forefront of many of the major
technology changes in this industry; ranging from time base correctors,
to digital video noise reducers, to non-linear electronic editing, to
high end film scanners and recorders.
John reasoned that video hardware
would continue to be hampered by the constraint that it has to do all of
its "reasoning" and all of its computing in the 1/30th of a second
available to deliver real-time video performance. That just wasn't
enough time to do the complex math he knew was necessary to deliver
images at the ever-increasing quality levels we were aiming for.
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Mike Inchalik behind the scenes at DTS Digital Images
(formerly Lowry Digital Images).
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