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Game of Thrones is a well-received fantasy television drama adapted from George R. R. Martin’s A song of Ice and Fire. It was produced by HBO1 Home Entertainment and aired from 2011 to 2019. Game o...

Dolby leads the way in how consumers experience cinematic entertainment centered around high dynamic range.

With the development of society, people can also engage in recreational activities at home to achieve the effect of physical fitness. However, many traditional home entertainment projects have unreasonable design and function. Therefore, this design of small home bowling system not only uses the traditional technology of intelligent hardware, embedded and sensor, but also uses the scoring algorithm and the stable speed algorithm of brushless dc motor under fuzzy control to design and control the system. Firstly, it defines the overall structural framework of bowling ball and generalizes the overall design scheme. Then, the system is divided into different units through the design of hardware platform for specific original circuit design. Using $\mu \mathrm{C}$ /OS-II real-time operating system programming, and specific programming is carried out for each unit after grading system functions. It realizes the accurate scoring function and automatic reset function of home run under different batting position and distance. At the same time, it can carry out voice broadcasting, alert users when the power is in danger, and upgrade and maintain the system.

This chapter uses Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, Wadjda. DVD. Saudi Arabia/Germany: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2012) as a case study to show how the wilfulness of women requires dissimulation and persistence in order to obtain the same rights as men have. A phenomenological analysis of the film shows how bodies give rise to wilful forms on screen and modify the gendered power relations (the power-geometries) at play in different spaces, such as the house, the school, and the street. Through micro-instances of activism, the wilful child converts the house into a heterotopia, making space beyond patriarchy and assumptions of a certain ‘feminine’ docility.

The video game industry revolutionized the game market from the 1970s onwards. Stationary video game machines, such as “coin-ops” and, later, consoles for home entertainment made it possible to experience and interact with new virtual environments. Based on technical innovations, early video games already included different graphic and auditory effects that were used to present and emphasize the spatial dimension of game stories. One of the most famous and successful video game series that “told” spatial stories and included many visualizations of virtual topographies was Nintendo's Super Mario series. Nintendo developed diverse video game topographies including different interactive and animated cartographic media throughout the Super Mario series. These maps were early and fundamental examples that were user-friendly and suitable for children. Moreover, they established a basis for future video game spaces, and the techniques used to create, animate, and visualize these maps have also found their ways into other applications of cartography and geomatics. It seems that the early worlds of Super Mario animated cartographers to animate cartographic visualizations. This article presents the characteristic spatial structures and cartographic techniques found in early Super Mario games, from the arcade classic Donkey Kong (1981) to the Super Nintendo classic Super Mario Kart (1992). The meaning of these structures and techniques for other cartographic applications is discussed.

The UHD Alliance (UHDA) is comprised of the world’s leading consumer electronics manufacturers, film and television studios, content distributors, and technology companies. It was established to provide consumers a premium user experience for next-generation content. This experience includes performance requirements for resolution, high dynamic range (HDR), wide color gamut (WCG), and other video and audio attributes with an eye toward giving consumers the best possible UHD with HDR experience. Home entertainment products, mobile devices, and content meeting these certification requirements can bear the Ultra HD Premium or Mobile HDR Premium logo marks.

A key challenge for managing interorganizational relationships in high-tech sectors is to design information sharing practices for supporting cooperative activities without leaking competitive proprietary information. In this paper, we use a qualitative multi-case study to explore the role of communication in supporting cooperative information sharing while keeping competitive information concerns at bay. We study two contrasting dyads of a Taiwanese buyer and Korean supplier in the digital home entertainment industry --- one which was a successful interorganizational relationship and led to further collaboration and the other which was unsuccessful and thus terminated. Drawing insights from Media Synchronicity Theory (MST), we develop a process model that explores the combination of communication media with communication content and processes for effective (ineffective) communication that promotes trust, information sharing and open communication in successful (unsuccessful) interorganizational relationships.

Brand placements in movies are common throughout the world. Within the last few years, 3D movie technology has experienced substantial growth in both cinemas and home entertainment. Furthermore, advanced cinemas also offer 4D experiences by adding scent, airflow or tactile stimuli to the 3D film. Based on the limited capacity model of information processing and the levels of processing effect theory, we conduct two studies to investigate how delivery modes of a 2D movie clip, compared to a 3D and a 4D (3D + scent) movie clip, influence recall and recognition of brands that are placed in either prominent or subtle ways. With regard to subtle placements, results from both studies demonstrate that the memory of subtle brand placements is negatively affected by the enhancement offered by 3D or 4D, as compared to 2D movies. With regard to prominent placements, results indicate that the memory of a highly prominent brand placement benefits from 3D, but not from 4D technology. This article addresses implications...

No post-war change in the entertainment industry was as profound as the change that occurred when television was introduced. Not only did television provide a home entertainment option for the audience, thereby eroding the traditional audience for film, it also broadcast motion pictures by the 1960s. By presenting live drama, weekly series, variety shows, news, and sports, television revolutionized viewing patterns, subject matter, the talent pool, 1 and, eventually, how films were edited.

Virtual reality is becoming more prominent than ever. The improved performance of mobile devices, along with the growing interest in more immersive user experiences, have allowed virtual reality to gain solid standing in this regard: nowadays, a smartphone and a pair of VR goggles are all that is needed for a full VR experience. The uses of VR systems extend beyond home entertainment: in particular, we are tackling the possibility that VR can be used by therapists to aid patients suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) [1,2]. To that, an adaptive system that can change different aspects of the VR environment, using machine learning techniques, can go a long way in increasing the efficiency of NDD treatments.

The advertising industry has shifted from paper and home entertainment to the daily live location of the target customers. With the demand for linear handling advertising for fast performance and low cost, organizations need to shift from traditional media management architecture to a lightweight architecture. The proposed architecture can help advertisers or organizations to save on hardware costs, manage their content, and to be able to format their impressions in real time, and the number of displays can be expanded indefinitely. The architecture also offers low-cost hardware and software development methods, including real-time management and control. After installing the system developed with the proposed architecture, the system is evaluated by gathering feedback from developers, system administrators, and users. The results demonstrate superiority to the traditional architectural design and the proposed architecture is expected to be ready to expand into commercial services.

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Educação (área de especialização em Educação de Adultos e Intervenção Comunitária), A população portuguesa está a envelhecer significativamente. Dada esta evolução, é preponderante criar meios para que esta faixa etária viva na plenitude a velhice. O presente projeto “Envelhecer Ativamente: um projeto de promoção da qualidade”, foi desenvolvido numa instituição da cidade de Braga, e pretendeu promover a qualidade de vida através da dinamização de atividades de caráter social, informativo, cultural, lúdico e cognitivo. O projeto abrangeu dois públicos, ambos do serviço de apoio ao domicílio, os utentes independentes e os dependentes, usando a animação ao domicílio para os dependentes. Desta forma, as atividades de animação sociocultural realizadas permitiram concluir que educar na terceira idade não é apenas ocupar o dia-a-dia dos idosos, mas criar oportunidades para que estes envelheçam ativamente., The Portuguese population is aging significantly. Given this, it is a priority to create means for the elderly to live fully. This project "Active ageing: promoting the quality of life", was developed at an institution, in the city of Braga, and aimed to improve the quality of life through the promotion of social, informative, cultural and cognitive activities. The project covered two publics, both from the home care service, the independent users and the dependents, using home entertainment for the dependents. In the light of this, socio-cultural activities carried out, allowed us to conclude that education is not only useful for occupying the daily life of the elderly, it is also a way to create opportunities for them to live actively.

This paper discusses the implementation of high dynamic range in the coming generation of studio home entertainment video formats and the technical considerations that led to the adoption of a perceptually-tuned electro-optical transfer function for high dynamic range mastering and distribution. It also covers the value of display-referred systems based on a reference rendering versus historical scene-referred systems based on relative luminance and camera characteristics.

Engagement in leisure activities during retirement and its relationship to retirement adjustment were investigated. Psychosocial mediators included mastery, self-efficacy for retirement (SE-R) and activities (SE-A), positive (PA) and negative affect (NA). Resources investigated included physical health and finances. Leisure activities examined were social, home entertainment, chores, light exercise, vigorous exercise, and education. Data were gathered from a sample consisting of 243 retirees. Direct predictors of retirement adjustment included finances, health, mastery, SE-R and SE-A. Social activities were the best predictor of a wide range of positive outcomes, including PA, mastery, SE-R and SE-A. Educational activities improved SE-R. Being involved in a broader range of activities was associated with PA, mastery and SE-A. Familiarity and enjoyment of activities were implicated in the maintenance and continuation of activities at post-retirement. Research findings have implications for aged-care and ot...

Multimedia (Images) are being generated at an enormous rate by sources such as defense and civilian satellites, biomedical imaging, military reconnaissance and surveillance flights and home entertainment systems, scientific experiments, fingerprinting and mug-shot-capturing devices. For example, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System will produce about 1 TB of image data per day when completely operational. A content- based image retrieval (CBIR) system is required to efficiently and competently use information from these image data sets. Such a system that helps users who is unfamiliar with the database can retrieve relevant images based on their contents.

After the first time I saw the Academy Award's “Best Picture” feature film Spotlight, I needed a few minutes to calm down. A gentleman sitting near me in the otherwise-empty weeknight theater asked...

This paper presents our experiences in developing and evaluating a low cost videogame controller that exploits RFID backscattering for battery-free operation. Specifically, we develop a system to gather data from a paper-made device, named JoyPaper, while it interacts with a videogame console. JoyPaper is home-made device that can be built by everyone and enables consumers to playing at every moment without caring about power charging: the device is ready to work as soon as the console is on. Our experiments show that JoyPaper's performance is comparable to that of a commercial controller in terms of latency and it is able to transfer up to 1 kbps.