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Digital puppetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Digital puppetry is the manipulation and performance of digitally animated 2D or 3D figures and objects in a virtual environment that are rendered in real-time by computers. The exact definition of what is and is not digital puppetry is subject to debate within the puppetry and computer graphics communities, but it is generally agreed that digital puppetry differs from conventional computer animation in that it involves performing characters in real time, rather than animating them frame by frame. Digital puppetry is closely associated with motion capture technologies and 3D animation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digital_puppetry   (645 words)

Station identification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A common worldwide practice, which was later popularized in the United States by the Viacom cable television music station VH1, is to use a small overlay graphic known as a "bug" or a "DOG" (Digital Onscreen Graphic) or watermark in the corner of the screen, showing the logo of the channel. Use of the DOG is common in Europe and much of the rest of the world, and it is now widely used by U.S. network and local broadcast television. The advent of digital television originally made it necessary for stations simulcasting both their analog and digital on the same channel to include both call signs in all identifications. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Station_identification   (1732 words)

Glossary Search Results Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) - A controversial reform of the U.S. copyright laws that is the first attempt to update those laws for the age of digital technology. Digital Signal level 5 (DS-5) - Synonym for T5 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) - A DSP is a microprocessor designed to work with analog signals such as video or audio that have been digitally encoded. Digital Television refers to the standard of transmitting and receiving television signals using purely digital transmission. www.geek.com /glossary/glossary_search.cgi?d   (11196 words)

TechnoFILE Reviews "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace" on DVD Sound and graphics are good, though the picture looked very soft and somewhat digitized on an extremely high end digital projection TV on which I tried it. You're prompted by a little onscreen graphic, and a yellow glow appears in the animation as well to give you a hint on what your action should be. Digital Leisure sent us the DVD version, which plays in ordinary home theater DVD players and is controlled via the cursor control and enter keys on the player’s remote. www.technofile.com /dvds/dragonslair.html   (1322 words)

Pro AV Magazine When a new medium such as digital signage and its advocates are fighting to break into a world long dominated by broadcast, print, and other traditional media vehicles, metrics really come into play. Giacalone says Macy’s is using digital signs to replace the hanging posters typically found in such departments as cosmetics as a way of cleaning up the look of the area. Theater owners nationwide are increasingly turning to digital signage networks to help customers choose their snacks — and in some cases the theaters are seeing a distinct boost in concession sales as a result. proav.pubdyn.com /2005_June/June20527200533945PM.htm   (2445 words)

Digital "cheese" - evaluations of digital cameras - Hardware Review - Evaluation Home Office Computing - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) And though professional-quality digital cameras used by newspaper and magazine photographers still sell in the $10,000 to $20,000 range, there's now a nice selection of cameras for less than $1,000 on the street that makes a lot of sense for anyone who needs to add a photo to a presentation, report, or Web page. If desktop publishing or onscreen presentations are tools in your business arsenal, digital cameras provide powerful graphic ammunition with minimal fuss and bother. Digital cameras take the photo development company out of the loop, ensuring the bored Fotomat guy won't go poring through your prints. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1563/is_n1_v14/ai_17963864   (437 words)

KODAK PROFESSIONAL Lab Digitization: Q Fotolab Testimonial Kodak modular digital lab equipment, which now handles 60 percent of Q Fotolab's volume, is helping improve its image quality and expand its portfolio of photographic products. Two more Digital Multiprinters were added in the second year, as creative layouts and other new products were incorporated into the lab's print package options. Onscreen review of images allows individual attention to be paid to each picture, giving prints a more hand-crafted look, Wallin says. www.kodak.com /global/en/professional/hub/labDig/testimonials/qFotolab.jhtml?id=0.1.16.18.50&lc=en   (592 words)

The Vacuum - Issue 14 - Media - Beware the Dog by Richard Youlden Digital Television was to herald a new era of quality broadcast viewing for all. But sadly this is also the most common excuse broadcasters use to explain away their insatiable desire to spread DOG mess and sully every show and this despite the excellent navigation facilities on digital boxes, and opportunity for 'virtual' DOGs viewers can kennel. DOGs not only interfere with viewing enjoyment, but they can cause considerable damage to Plasma TV Panels, which are susceptible to 'Screen Burn'. www.thevacuum.org.uk /issues/issues0120/issue14/is14artmybeef.html   (696 words)

I am begging you - Topic Powered by eve community I am referring oto the More4 DOG (Digital Onscreen Graphic) in the corner of the screen, a badly coloured very distracting logo. I'm not going to go on about it but I'll simply say I will never watch another film on More4 again until the onscreen logo is removed for the duration of the film. Dog or not, it was a good film though community.channel4.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8510081423/m/1460074163   (273 words)

Soul In Code: Acts of Art Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) When a graphic novel is a reprint of stories from a periodical publication, it is referred to as a trade paperback. Graphic novel panels and subpanels can be fractured, overlaid, the "frame" or "window" expanding and contracting to fit the flow and scenes. Graphic novels, comics and Japanese manga/anime represent a significant contribution to the postmodern conception of hero and myth. www.soulincode.com /archives/cat_acts_of_art.html   (9865 words)

Digitalthread : Web design companies, professional web design pages, web site design firms, graphic design links and ... TypeCon2006 is the eighth annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts. Underware is a graphic design studio which specializes in designing and producing quality typefaces. Village is a type co-op founded in 2005 as a distribution agent for a group of small digital type foundries from around the world. digitalthread.com   (1231 words)

Apple - Power Mac G5 - Graphics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The PCI Express architecture means you can install up to four graphics cards in your Power Mac G5 — for connecting up to eight Apple Cinema Displays. Choose a standard configuration equipped with a card for general graphics applications, or upgrade to a high-performance card for ultraresponsive graphics and true onscreen stereo 3D — perfect for scientific visualization. The optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card features a stereo 3D graphics port, enabling scientists to use 3D goggles, such as those from StereoGraphics Corporation, to view an added dimension on their CRT. www.apple.com /powermac/graphics.html   (793 words)

Apple - Mac OS X - Overview - Graphics and Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) And with Colorsync, Mac OS X Tiger gives you complete control over your color, allowing you to manage it at every stage of your workflow — from capture to edit to output. Mac OS X also includes Image Capture, an image acquisition application that automatically embeds a profile into every image you download from a digital camera or capture with a scanner, so you have a rich starting point for every image you work with. No matter what your digital media specialty, Mac OS X Tiger delivers technologies that enable you to create audio, video and print as fast as you can imagine it. www.apple.com /macosx/overview/graphicsandmedia.html   (845 words)

creativepro.com - dot-font: Zapfs on Paper and Onscreen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The material seems to be binding cloth for the covers of hand-bound books; at least, its textures suggest this, whatever the actual source may have been. It provides a rich but unobtrusive frame for the graphic work, giving an illusion of tactile feel to the glossy computer screen. In a similar kind of low-key enrichment, simple fades take the viewer from one image to another, punctuated by occasional motion effects, and each section is accompanied by quiet classical music played by a skilled German consort. www.creativepro.com /printerfriendly/story/15932.html   (1005 words)

Digital Video Essentials (DVE) Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Digital Video Essentials does not explain how to use the advanced test patterns or how to enter your service menu and perform a more advanced calibration. There are many improvements with this DVD version of Digital Video Essentials and one of the biggest is navigation of the DVD itself. The onscreen graphic representations of your speaker system, combined with the pink noise tests makes for a slick way to see if your system is placing sounds in the correct space. www.audioholics.com /techtips/setup/avhardware/DigitalVideoEssentialsDVDr.php   (1107 words)

Wired 11.08: PLAY There's no DV input, the translucent onscreen menu is hard to read, and you have to mail away for the TV tuner. Multiplexes across the country are upgrading to digital laser-projection equipment. Water-resistant CD players are now de rigueur, along with digital tuners and external antennas for the ultimate in aquatic audio. www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.08/play.html?pg=13   (1919 words)

Digital Praise Digital Praise is currently offering fundraiser packages to Christian organizations, schools, churches, and other groups, providing high-quality Christian video games at substantially discounted prices. Digital Praise Inc, was named an EdNET 2005 HERO Award Finalist at the 17th Annual EdNET Conference in San Diego. Digital Praise, recognized in the Rookie of the Year portion of the competition, was declared by the show's judges to be a start-up organization with the potential to become a key player in the technology industry in the coming years. www.digitalpraise.com   (8310 words)

TidBITS#408/08-Dec-97 Digital camera resolution will only improve and today's "high" will be tomorrow's "normal" or even "low," so you may as well not start behind the curve. An innovative camera manufacturer for generations, Olympus always comes through with the right stuff at the right time, from half-frame cameras to autofocus point-and-shoot 35s, and now to digital cameras that, in my opinion, are the best in their class. If you think you need to buy a digital camera in the near future, by all means consider jumping into the foray now. www.tidbits.com /tb-issues/TidBITS-408.html   (4011 words)

Digital Spy Forums - DOG award winner Usually I don't give two hoots about DOGs and the constant moaning on here about them bemuses me and just makes me think people have too much time on their hands if that's all they have to complain about. When widescreen movies were on Disney Channel, the DOG they used was tiny with no text in it, so I was surprised they didn't use a similar size and style DOG for widescreen films on Cinemagic too. Excuse me? Americans are the worst with their big dogs reminding you to watch something else, and what's coming next, and what season it is, while the program is running! forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=356001   (655 words)

Digital Spy Forums - Are Music Channels Getting Worse? i can't believe emap have changed their on screen graphics (again!) the box and smash hits now have their logos at the bottom-right which i thinks awful and the selection numbers are squeezed right next to them. wait a minute, alot of ppl were always moaning about the old graphics and kept saying stuff like why can they be more like american tv and move the DOG to the lower corners, now they have done that and reduced most of the clutter, and ppl still complain, FFS give em a break. I've taken a quick picture with my digital camera (it's a bit of a rubbish picture, but you get the idea of what it is showing). forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=194333   (1605 words)

Diamond Multimedia-Video Card, Graphic Card, ATI Radeon , TV Tuner, modems The PVR/TV Tuner card does two things: 1) it "decodes" the TV signal coming from the wall so it can be shown onscreen, and 2) it "encodes" the signal into a form that can be stored on your PC's hard drive, known as MPEG-2. This is very slow, which results in the TV image skipping (dropping frames) and even degrading (digital static). If you are using your media center PC with a digital cable or satellite TV signal (i.e., with a set-top box), you will need to have an IR blaster. www.diamondmm.com /howtobuypvr.php   (1226 words)

Sound And Vision Magazine - Pioneer VSX-74TXVi Digital Surround Receiver Connecting an iPod mini was a simple matter of plugging one end of the supplied cable into the mini’s dock connector and the other into a jack on the receiver’s rear panel. When you hit the onscreen Go button, about 5 minutes of noise bursts and clicks cycle through your speakers as the receiver dials in speaker “sizes,” levels, distances, and crossover frequencies. There are also a couple types of equalization, including a graphic EQ adjustment for each main channel. www.soundandvisionmag.com /article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=874&page_number=1   (605 words)

PVR Tutorial Like a VCR, a Personal Video Recorder (PVR, also known as DVR, Digital Video Recorder) allows a person to record a TV signal, to be watched later. However unlike a VCR, the storage medium is a digital hard drive rather than analog magnetic tape. Digital recorders such as PVRs convert sound and/or video into a digital file. www.wave-report.com /tutorials/PVR.htm   (500 words)

The UK Campaign for LOGO FREE TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) I am a big fan of the BBC and the standards you set within the media industry for both technical and programming quality. Onscreen Graphic (DOGs) and their refusal to transmit hardly anything in The reason for writing to you is that I fear the BBC may be tempted down the logofreetv.org /content/correspondence/BBC_BBC_FOUR_Simon_Warran-Smith_19022002.htm   (388 words)

Manhunt for PlayStation 2 Review - PlayStation 2 Manhunt Review The developer of Grand Theft Auto delivers its darkest, most violent game yet in Manhunt, an original third-person perspective stealth action game that puts you in the role of a death row inmate forced to run a deadly gauntlet at the whim of a sadistic cinematographer. The game unflinchingly depicts intense graphic violence, the likes of which you might expect from a slasher movie but not from your PlayStation 2. A context-sensitive onscreen icon, shaped like a silhouette of Cash, turns blue when he's in shadows, though you'll also quickly learn to identify the dark, shadowy areas you can hide in just at a glance. www.gamespot.com /ps2/action/manhunt/review.html   (1237 words)

Pure Mac: Graphics - Software For Macintosh Finally a digital image layout program designed especially for use on the Mac that is quick and easy to use. A powerful and robust digital painting technology, gives sophisticated digital artists and professional graphic designers results that have become the creative standard for computer art. Digital photographs can be quickly imported and arranged for output on your color printer. www.eskimo.com /~pristine/graph.html   (4661 words)

[No title] The digitizer's ability to detect the pen tip is the magic that makes the pen work. Using a pen, a user can enter character data using the onscreen keyboard (see Figure 2) The Input Panel appears when a user clicks an icon in the system taskbar and can be hidden when not needed. And when the paste operation is performed to a non-ink-enabled program, a variety of alternative graphic formats, such as bitmaps and metafiles, allow the recipient to display the ink. msdn.microsoft.com /msdnmag/issues/04/12/TabletPC/default.aspx   (6834 words)

:: Visecom ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Digital television is now a reality-- but you're not going to see it the way it was meant to be seen using yesterday's TV sets. Digital music is a flexible format that can be copied, pasted, altered, and enjoyed wherever you are. It has a sharp digital zoom feature, which allows you to select one portion of the screen for emphasis and magnify it up to 7 times. www.visecom.com /faq.php   (8066 words)

Rotodesign | Art Chantry Interview He phoned me back, and we chatted for about an hour on subjects from graphic design to punk rock to technology, before he invited me to come down to his studio. As one of the few graphic designers who doesn't use a computer to put together his artwork, Art is very passionate about the hostile takeover of the design profession by digital technology. This interview was conducted May 31, 1998 while listening to rare Rolling Stones bootlegs, while a bird chirped in the background and a dog trod on a pile of rare and beautiful posters that Art tossed casually onto the floor. www.rotodesign.com /art/art.html   (2447 words)

Home Theater: SIM2 Grand Cinema HT300 XTRA DLP Projector Digital Light Processing front projection has a short but interesting history. Using the onscreen menus for initial setup was a snap. I sampled a number of DVD movies and was struck by the HT300 XTRA's freedom from a digital anomaly known as dithering (it appears as a form of video noise) in the picture's dark areas. www.hometheatermag.com /frontprojectors/504sim   (1321 words)

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