{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}} Doremi Laboratories, Inc., often shortened to Doremi Labs, was established in 1985 in Burbank, CA, USA. Doremi Labs is a leading{{#invoke:Namespace detect|main}}{{#invoke:Namespace detect|main}}[citation needed] developer and manufacturer of digital servers and format converters for the digital cinema, broadcast, post production and professional A/V markets.
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History [link]
Doremi Labs was founded by Camille Rizko in Los Angeles in 1985. Shortly after, he was joined by fellow engineers, Emil Rizko and Safar Ghazal. The first product, the DAWN (Digital Audio Workstation Nucleus),[1][2] was an editing device for dialog replacement and effects/ADR Foley. The product used a Macintosh Plus computer as its user interface. One of the features that set Doremi's DAWN apart is its ability to play 8 high quality audio tracks from a single hard disk. The product built a faithful following owing to its friendly user interface which emulates existing paper based workflow.[3]
In 1994, the company foresaw the need to replace VCRs used heavily in post production studios, with a new tapeless model. Doremi decided that rather than change customers habits, it will design a tapeless disk recorder which will emulate as close as possible existing VCRs in use. The only major difference would be instant locate to any point within the recorded video clip. The V1 digital video recorder/player (DVR) was introduced to the public in 1996, and became an instance success. Doremi soon introduced models of the recorder that supports MPEG-2, Uncompressed, High Definition and JPEG2000. The success of the V1 led to Doremi’s worldwide expansion, opening facilities in France and Japan.
During that same time period, to support its own internal need for a large number of high quality, high resolution displays, Doremi built the first HDSDI to DVI converter, which allow users to have a low cost high definition monitoring system using computer displays. This innovative product was soon followed by a pattern generator. This product line was soon copied by several other manufacturers and created a whole new line of converter/generator products, which Doremi continues to pursue in the high end of the market.
In 2003, Doremi introduced the Nugget,[4] a high quality high definition player for applications such as theme parks, museums, or anywhere where a high end HD player is needed. The product captured the high end portion of the playback market, and was adopted by major entertainment corporations as the product of choice for their loop playback applications.
In 2004, Doremi and Texas Instruments (TI), manufacturer of DLP digital micro-mirror imaging devices (DMDs), demonstrated cinema quality digital playback using TI's new 2K DMDs and a V1 DVR at IBC. Soon after, TI asked Doremi if they can build a server for the emerging digital cinema market. Doremi saw the opportunity and decided it was time to enter that market. Doremi started 2 simultaneous JPEG2000 compression based projects, one for a Digital Cinema Player called the DCP-2000, and the other for a Digital Mastering Station called the DMS-2000.
In April 2005, Doremi demonstrated for the first time to Disney Studios, a clip of National Treasure and a clip of Chicken Little, that were mastered on the DMS-2000 and played on the DCP-2000. The success of the experiment convinced the studio that the technology is now readily available to migrate the movie playback from 35mm film to digital.
In June 2005, at CinemaExpo, Doremi showed for the first time a playback of a Digital Cinema Package (DCP). The package was prepared by the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI). Shortly after, Doremi looked to master a complete movie in digital. Universal Studios gave Doremi and Fotokem the authorization to master the upcoming movie Serenity in digital and have it ready by opening day. Doremi and Fotokem rose to the challenge despite many hurdles and showed the movie mastered on the DMS-2000, played on the DCP-2000 in September 2005, at Fotokem screening room. Shortly after, the movie was shown at the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) on a 75-foot screen, to rave reviews.
During 2005, Christie-AIX, a joint venture between Christie Digital and Access IT (Now Cinedigm), signed a Virtual Print Fee (VPF) contract with the studios to outfit 4000 screens with digital playback systems. Following the Serenity demonstration, the Doremi server was selected for the rollout, and 150 screens were installed in 2005. The rollout continued with Doremi exclusively during 2006 and 2007.
In 2008, Doremi looked for other opportunities for products in the cinema market, and saw a need to design cost effective hearing aid and viewing aid devices for the physically impaired. Doremi saw a moral obligation to innovate in this field and come up with products that the exhibitors would buy, not to avoid lawsuits, but to increase the captive audience. The Captiview hearing impaired system was introduced in 2010,[5] and the Fidelio viewing impaired system was introduced in June 2011.[6]
In 2009, Doremi introduced the first 4K integrated media block for TI's series-2 projectors, over 2 years ahead of its closest competitor.
In 2011, Doremi achieves DCI Compliance for IMB / ShowVault, DCP-2000, DCP-2K4[7][8] and receives 4K technology patent US 7,868,879 B2 relating to decoding technologies within the 4K standard.[9] Additionally, all digital viewings at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival were delivered in 4K resolution with Doremi servers.[10]
In 2012, Doremi achieves DCI Compliance for IMS1000.[11]
Products [link]
Digital Cinema [link]
DCI Compliant Digital Cinema Players and 4K Solutions [link]
- IMS1000, 4K and 3D HFR Integrated Media Server
- ShowVault / IMB (Integrated Media Block)
- DCP-2000, Digital Cinema playback server
- DCP-2K4, Digital Cinema playback server
Access Products [link]
- Captiview, transmitter and handheld device for the hearing impaired
- Fidelio, transmitter and receiver for the visually impaired
Alternative Content [link]
- LE100, 1RU video streaming and playback device
- StreamIt, broadcast MPEG2 video streamer
Converters [link]
- AUD-DA, digital to analog audio converter
Post Production / Mastering [link]
- DC-Post, Digital Cinema playback server
- Rapid, DCI-JPEG2000 mastering server
Pro A/V [link]
Video Disk Recorders [link]
- V1-HD-2K, high definition video disk recorder
- V1-UHD, high definition video disk recorder
- MCS-HD, HD video recorder and player
Play back devices [link]
- Nugget Pro, high definition video playback solution
- DSV-J2, high quality 2D, 3D, and Stereoscopic digital playback device
Converters [link]
- S2H-30, SD/HD/3G-SDI video signal to HDMI converter
- H2S-30, HDMI video signal to SD/HD/3G-SDI converter
- XDVI-20s, cross-converter for DVI, HD-SDI and SD-SDI video
- GHX-10, any input to any output format converter
- DSDI-20s, DVI to high definition or standard definition SDI video converter
- HDVI-20s, SDI to DVI converter
- Dimension-3D, 3D format converter
Generators [link]
- GENeration-3D, 3D test pattern generator
- HDG-20, portable video test pattern generator
Software [link]
The software produced by Doremi Labs include:
- CineAsset, mastering software for creating encrypted and unencrypted DCI compliant packages
- CineExport, plug-in for Apple’s Compressor used to convert Final Cut Pro sequences and popular media formats to DCI compliant Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs)
- CinePlayer, media player used to review Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) without the need for a digital cinema server
- TMS, Theatre management software
- Asset Manager, video file transfer software
- Final Cut Pro plug-in, plugin for creating DCP for Final Cut Pro
See also [link]
External links [link]
References [link]
https://wn.com/Doremi_Labs
Labs
Labs, labs, or LABS may carry the following meanings:
labs, a function that calculates the absolute value of a long integer in the C programming languageSee also
C mathematical functions
C mathematical operations are a group of functions in the standard library of the C programming language implementing basic mathematical functions. All functions use floating point numbers in one manner or another. Different C standards provide different, albeit backwards-compatible, sets of functions. Most of these functions are also available in the C++ standard library, though in different headers (the C headers are included as well, but only as a deprecated compatibility feature).
Overview of functions
Most of the mathematical functions are defined in math.h (cmath header in C++). The functions that operate on integers, such as abs, labs, div, and ldiv, are instead defined in the stdlib.h header (cstdlib header in C++).
Any functions that operate on angles use radians as the unit of angle.
Not all of these functions are available in the C89 version of the standard. For those that are, the functions accept only type double for the floating-point arguments, leading to expensive type conversions in code that otherwise used single-precision float values. In C99, this shortcoming was fixed by introducing new sets of functions that work on float and long double arguments. Those functions are identified by f and l suffixes respectively.
Labëria
Labëria is a historic region that is roughly situated in Southern Albania. Its inhabitants are known as Labs (referred to as Albanian: sing: Lab, pl. Lebër, also dial. sing.: Lap in Albanian and Greek: Λιάπης, Liapis in Greek) and its boundaries reach from Vlorë to Himara in the south, to the Greek border near Sarandë, incorporating the Kurvelesh region of Gjirokastër District and extending east to the city of Tepelenë.
Labëria is culturally distinguishable from the rest of Albania in its traditions and folklore. The Labs were warlike pastoral people who lived mainly in the mountains of Kurvelesh, Progonat and Vlorë during the Ottoman invasion of Albania. However, due to mass migrations to urban areas following World War II, the population is now concentrated in the cities of Vlorë, Tepelenë, Gjirokastër and Sarandë.
Historically the Labs were followers of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity but many converted to Islam during Ottomon rule, with the bulk of conversion occurring in the 18th century. Conversions were especially intense during years of conflict between Orthodox Russia and the Ottoman Empire, during which some pressure was applied on Orthodox Christians by Ottoman rulers, including even low-scale forced conversion of villages, contradicting the official Ottoman tolerance for Christians. Additional reasons for conversion included discrimination and exploitation of Christians by Ottoman rulers, the previous patterns of conversion between different Christian sects and the diverse pre-Ottoman distribution of Christian faiths in the region (including Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Bogomolism and even Arianism), the poll tax which only Christians had to pay, the poverty of the church, the mass illiteracy of priests and the fact that the language of worship was not the Albanian vernacular. Tradition holds that a mass conversion of Labs occurred during a famine in which the bishops of Himara and Delvina refused to let the Labs break fast and drink milk.
