{"id":79710,"date":"2013-09-29T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=79710"},"modified":"2013-09-29T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:00:28","slug":"ibc-wrap-up-we-would-be-fools-if-we-didnt-learn-from-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/09\/29\/79710-ibc-wrap-up-we-would-be-fools-if-we-didnt-learn-from-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"IBC wrap-up: &#8216;We would be fools if we didn&#8217;t learn from The Hobbit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"bilbo on gold\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70564 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Audience reaction to Hollywood\u2019s first high frame rate movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was decidedly mixed, but frame rates\u2014along with higher resolution, laser light, immersive sound and second screen experiences were very much on the minds of digital cinema leaders last week at the International Broadcasters Convention.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, this community debated how to respond to the advancements taking place in home entertainment. \u201cTV [technology] is moving faster,\u201d admitted Disney\u2019s vp production technology Howard Lukk during a panel discussion. \u201cWhat keeps us up at night is how [cinema] stays the premium experience.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While a move to 4K resolution is a big topic, numerous leaders said that more pixels alone isn&#8217;t the answer. They also want to see higher frame rates, a wider color gamut and expanded dynamic range.<\/p>\n<p>Offering the theater owners perspective, Phil Clapp, president of the International Union of Cinemas warned that ultimately theater owners will adopt new technologies based on the business model. \u201cWill it make a difference and can I monetize it? Or can I market it as the gold standard?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clapp added that attention needs to be placed on marketing, noting that the industry as a whole didn\u2019t effectively introduce last December\u2019s release of The Hobbit in high frame rates and &#8220;left the audience to find its way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/behind-screen\/ibc-wrap-we-would-be-634758?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fcolumns+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Columns%29\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audience reaction to Hollywood\u2019s first high frame rate movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was decidedly mixed, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":65667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[497,14,4,91,74,148,1636,1911,1912],"tags":[873,1784,1794],"class_list":["post-79710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-production-directors","category-events","category-hobbit-movie","category-events-other","category-jackson","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","category-the-hobbit-there-and-back-again","tag-3d","tag-hfr","tag-high-frame-rate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/F1-Bagend.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-kJE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79712,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79710\/revisions\/79712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}