Sony Pictures Technologies – FY13 Three Year Plan
Technology Development Group (1 of 2)
Core Functions
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Center of excellence for a broad range of
technology relevant to SPE’s business.
Provide business units with technology to
improve processes from camera to screen.
Provide hands-on expertise in new
technology to feature and TV productions.
Develop new production workflows
Provide and review content protection and
usage rule schedules for licensing deals.
Technical expertise for anti-piracy,
government affairs and litigation.
Participate in the development of next
generation content formats.
Financial Summary
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FY13 Budget: $X.XM
FY13 Headcount: XX
Key Facts & Achievements
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Developing new workflows for feature production using digital cameras,
provided on-set expertise on this workflow to About Last Night allowing
Screen Gems to shoot faster and without D.I.T.
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Developing and deploying Content Finishing Platform for better title version
management – PMC, WPF, SPTI.
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Content protection and usage rules for over 200 home entertainment and
television deals in partnership with Digipol.
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Content protection and usage rules schedules for over 40 IFE non-theatrical
and FilmBank deals, instituted contractual protection requirements in nontheatrical deals, and driving industry standards for IFE content protection as
industry expands from in-seat to passenger owned devices.
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Specifying and promoting next generation enhanced content protection
appropriate for high value 4k and early window offerings. (Our 4k activities
reach well beyond Sony’s F1 project).
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On-going contribution to the SPTI EMEA Media Center project.
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Developed very cost effective workflow for 3D production allowing
productions to shoot on 2D schedules and with small increment in budget in
conjunction with 3DTC.
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Provided on-set expertise in 3D workflow for productions including Screen
Gems Battle of the Year and SPT’s newly acquired Left Bank’s production
Little Crackers to great success. Done in conjunction with 3DTC.
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Sony Pictures Technologies – FY13 Three Year Plan
Technology Development Group (2 of 2)
Core Functions (cont’d)
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Pursuing SPE interests in Ultraviolet
technical group, Common File Format
completed.
Further the development of systems and
standards for content protection, delivery
and consumer offerings.
Participate in studio activities to improve the
consumer experience and maximize value of
SPE content to the consumer.
Engage in technology related activities with
other studios and industry bodies to further
SPE’s agenda.
Financial Summary
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FY13 Budget: $X.XM
FY13 Headcount: XX
Key Facts & Achievements (cont’d)
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Contributed to industry discussions to make 4k more attractive to consumers
enhancement of color and dynamic range (e.g. definition in dark areas of the
picture)
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Ongoing participation in Ultraviolet and other industry Interactivity WGs.
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Participation in BDA next generation Blu-ray working group.
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Conducted in-house, and participated in production, camera and lens tests
(After Earth, No Good Deed, White House Down, etc).
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Trained over 300 DPs, directors and crew on the new F65 digital camera
used on Columbia’s After Earth, and Screen Gems’ No Good Deed and
About Last Night.
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French regulatory investigation that could make content protection on Bluray discs meaningless.
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Technical consultation for Government Affairs in a variety of EU
Commission actions that could, for example, remove our ability to enter into
licenses for a particular territory within Europe
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Working with anti-piracy and litigation to drive our agenda with search
engines such as Google.
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Negotiated with Fox to ensure consistency between Crackle’s and channels’
content protection and Fox’s contractual requirements.
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Project managed the technical component of the Sony F1 project, working to
resolve differences between Sony’s approach and our expectations of
industry requirements for 4k.
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