If you’re a geek — Hollywood Wants You! All six of the major movie studios have initiated the MovieLabs Technology Open Challenge.
The purpose for this little challenge is to find the best of the best of the techno-geeks to help solve long running problems like Internet security, conversion of digital data to be played on multi-platform formats for the everyday consumer of Hollywoods’s product and creating a universal movie screen that can play 2-D and 3-D movies and can be easily installed in every cinema throughout the world without huge cost overhead to theater owners.
It would seem that the amount of eager young minds with this kind of know-how is dwindling down to a precious few and the studio system, in partnership with MovieLabs (a Palo Alto R&D development group) want to find and sign up the most talented.
“There were some problems we were thinking about where we said, ‘Why not get the industry thinking about some of these things?'” Steven Weinstein, a hired gun from MovieLabs, said in an interview with Variety. For instance, “Why, if you’re in a hotel, shouldn’t you be able to access your movies on the TV in your room?” asked Weinstein.
The MovieLabs Technology Open Challenge offers grants of up to $100,000 for all techo-geeks who qualify and are chosen. The challenge search goes on until the end of September 2007.
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