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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/
.
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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