film – Gadget Teaser https://www.gadgetteaser.com Tracking the gadget and tech revolution Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:06:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Theaters Hope Tech Can Foil Pirates https://www.gadgetteaser.com/2009/09/22/theaters-hope-tech-can-foil-pirates/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:30:09 +0000 https://www.gadgetteaser.com/?p=1937 Movie theaters are looking into IR light as a way to help combat piracy from movie-goers with cameras. Japan’s National Institute of Informatics has requested help from Sharp, which came up with the following method. By projecting IR from behind the movie screen, movie theaters can wash out a camcorder’s image by flooding the sensor […]

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]]> Movie theater.Movie theaters are looking into IR light as a way to help combat piracy from movie-goers with cameras. Japan’s National Institute of Informatics has requested help from Sharp, which came up with the following method.

By projecting IR from behind the movie screen, movie theaters can wash out a camcorder’s image by flooding the sensor with light that is undetectable to the human eye. The light passes through the screen through small holes designed for sound. The resulting effect is a grid of light over the image, rendering the cam unusable.

There is, of course, the problem of getting every theater to install these things, which will likely further increase ticket prices in a declining market. It was a nice thought guys. Really, it was.

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