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Glendale,
AZ -- The Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV, an
IPTV station owned by Ed Sharpe of CouryGraph
Productions in Glendale, Arizona, unveiled the
latest technology initiative to be deployed by the
station. “3D,” according to Sharpe, “Has
been around for since before the Civil War. The
public first experienced it in the parlors of
Victorian era homes as a form of entertainment and
education with cards that had two images on them.
Viewer consisted of either handheld devices or
elaborate table top cabinet style viewers ”
Sharpe
continued, " When you would place the card
into a special 2 lens viewer you would be able to
see a resulting three dimensional image of the
scene. How did this get on the card? Easy! It was
done with a camera with two lenses separated
roughly the intraocular distance of your
eyes."
The
KKAT-IPTV 3-D
NEWSCAM
made its debut at the Country Inn & Suites at
20221 North 29th Ave on January 15,
2008 during a Glendale Chamber Of Commerce Mixer.
Regarded with high amounts of curiosity by party
goes due to it's off two lens look, Sharpe was
besieged with questions about it.
Sharpe
states" If you are just going to shoot a line
up of people or a city council meeting, the
advantage to 3D is not as apparent as if you are
videoing cars coming towards you, fists flying
towards the lens or parts moving towards the
camera in a conveyor belt. In other words…
extreme movement is good!”
The
version of this technology deployed by the
Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV was developed
keeping in mind that it was desirable for footage
shot in this system of 3-D could be re-mastered
for any future 3-D methodology. Sharpe elaborates
”If you have
footage shot with two cameras, it can be
used in a 2 color Anaglyph image 3-D system, or
later chopped and sequenced into a field
sequential viewing system format, or even run to
two separate projectors that utilize polarizing
technologies to produce the 3-D imagery.”
Anaglyph
images are the
most popular presentation of 3-D and the one most
commonly associated with stereoscopy by the public
at large. It is largely popular because of their
ease in producing.
In
an anaglyph, the two images are either
superimposed in an additive light setting through
two filters, one red and one cyan, or this process
can be done electronically within the video
editor. Glasses with colored filters in either eye
separate the appropriate images and give you a
‘near real’ color scheme.
The
use of this technology from the viewer’s
perspective, according to Sharpe, couldn't be
simpler. “The viewer just puts on the glasses
and looks at the window on the webpage.”
Always
willing to share innovative endeavors he is
involved in, Sharpe enjoys collaboration and
educating others on the technology at hand.
Contact Ed and Glendale Daily Planet at http://www.glendaledailyplanet.com for
information and resource links on 3D
Technology
The
future? Sharpe chuckles…” Probably like the
3-D image of Princess Leila in star wars that
R2-D2 projected for Luke to view… no screens no
glasses just… the image… but…
it is still a ways off for living room news
viewing!”
To
learn more on the fascinating history of 3-d still
and moving imagery give Google a workout!
You will be entertained for days with the
amount of information out there. In is fun to read
about the ‘early’ 3-D movies that Hollywood
turned out…
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The
cool KKAT is wearing a new set of shades
these days!
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Top
2 photos… Ed
Sharpe for Glendale Daily Planet /
KKAT-IPTV
records footage of the
Mock Airline Crash at Mountain Ridge
High School in Glendale Arizona for a 3-D
News special on Glendale Fire
Department Community Training Involvement
Photos by Daniel
Valenzuela Glendale Fire Department
Photo
above - Ed Sharpe
for Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV records
footage of an
interview with Glendale Fire Department PIO Daniel
T. Valenzuela
at the Mock
Airline Crash at Mountain Ridge High School in
Glendale Arizona for a 3-D
News special on Glendale Fire
Department Community Training Involvement
Photo
by Glendale Fire Captain John
Walter II.
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About
CouryGraph Productions / Glendale Daily Planet /
KKAT-IPTV in Glendale, AZ
Glendale
Daily Planet, the parent organization of KKAT-IPTV
was started in 2004 as the first community
journalism news site in Glendale and perhaps all
of Arizona... Serving The Metro West Side of the
Valley of the Sun, Glendale Daily Planet has
witnessed, participated in and recorded the
further rejuvenation of the downtown core, the
meteoric rise of the 'Glendale Sports Empire' and
the restoration of historic sections of the town.
One aspect Sharpe is most proud of is the ability
to have a continuous 24/7 stream of archived
footage in the player but yet, when a special
event arises, have the ability to go live
interrupting the pre-programmed content to cover
the event. With the advent of higher speed EVDO
radio cards and compact portable satellite
terminals the options are limitless.
Residents can now catch stories of interest on
their schedule, taking advantage of the on-demand
character of Internet media. No more waiting for 5
or 10pm and no need to program the TiVo. Important
stories remain available, a mouse click away, for
years in the online archives..
Sharpe
is a member of the National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Society of Broadcast
Engineers (SBE), Independent Feature Project (IFP)
(IFP/PHX), Investigative Reporters and Editors
(IRE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), Society of Professional
Journalists (SPJ), National Press Photographers
Association (NPPA), Southwest Museum of
Engineering, Communications and Computation
(SMECC), Association for Educational
Communications and Technology (AECT) and other
associations.
The work of Ed Sharpe from CouryGraph Productions
and other participative community journalists and
engineering staff may be viewed, 24-hours a day,
seven days a week at http://www.glendaledailyplanet.com/
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Interested in having your work seen by the world?
Contact the Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV to
schedule airing! Use the email link on the site.
Ed appears as a Wall-E look-alike!
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