Don’t know how many of you were on the Dolby product update webinar this morning, but for those that weren’t, there were, IMHO, two actual pieces of news.
News item 1: Dolby have just launched a standalone docking station for the IMS1000, 2000 and 3000. It enables you to power up an IMS without putting it in a projector. This enables you to do three things: charge up the certificate battery, connect to its web UI in order to configure, ingest etc. – so having one of these things would enable you to preconfigure an IMS before shipping it onward to a customer, for whom it would be plug and play, without needing to put it in a projector to do so – and check it for faults. Basically all the docking station does it to give the IMS power, which will charge the cert battery and give you access to its web UI and the contents of its onboard RAID. The docking station will accept an IMS with any faceplate on it, or none. I think that this will be a very valuable tool to enable us to catch IMS problems and issues before we get it to a site.
News item 2 was about putting an IMS3000 in a Barco SP4K. There is a significant gotcha. If you put a non-Barco IMS in an SP4K, the projector will let you run it for 200 “grace hours,” and then lock it up. To unlock it, you need a KDM from Barco/Cinionic that is specific to that serial number of IMS, and projector. You need to ask Dolby for this KDM, giving them the serial number of both the projector and the IMS. So when we do such an installation (e.g. an IMS3000 with ICP-D in an SP4K), it’ll be important to not just see that “the damn thing works” (with apologies to Philo Farnsworth) and then walk away, because it won’t stay working for very long unless we get the KDM and then upload it. The same thing applies if we swap out an IMS that has gone bad in such an installation.
The rest of it was essentially a briefing on the withdrawal of the IMS2000 and its replacement with the IMS3000 “server mode,” plus a roundup of the bug fixes and new features in the current round of software and firmware updates.
News item 1: Dolby have just launched a standalone docking station for the IMS1000, 2000 and 3000. It enables you to power up an IMS without putting it in a projector. This enables you to do three things: charge up the certificate battery, connect to its web UI in order to configure, ingest etc. – so having one of these things would enable you to preconfigure an IMS before shipping it onward to a customer, for whom it would be plug and play, without needing to put it in a projector to do so – and check it for faults. Basically all the docking station does it to give the IMS power, which will charge the cert battery and give you access to its web UI and the contents of its onboard RAID. The docking station will accept an IMS with any faceplate on it, or none. I think that this will be a very valuable tool to enable us to catch IMS problems and issues before we get it to a site.
News item 2 was about putting an IMS3000 in a Barco SP4K. There is a significant gotcha. If you put a non-Barco IMS in an SP4K, the projector will let you run it for 200 “grace hours,” and then lock it up. To unlock it, you need a KDM from Barco/Cinionic that is specific to that serial number of IMS, and projector. You need to ask Dolby for this KDM, giving them the serial number of both the projector and the IMS. So when we do such an installation (e.g. an IMS3000 with ICP-D in an SP4K), it’ll be important to not just see that “the damn thing works” (with apologies to Philo Farnsworth) and then walk away, because it won’t stay working for very long unless we get the KDM and then upload it. The same thing applies if we swap out an IMS that has gone bad in such an installation.
The rest of it was essentially a briefing on the withdrawal of the IMS2000 and its replacement with the IMS3000 “server mode,” plus a roundup of the bug fixes and new features in the current round of software and firmware updates.
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