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Digital Tipping Point: Dolby Linux wizard John Gilbert gives us a look inside the movie industry 07
- Publication date
- 2004
- Topics
- John Gilbert, Gilbert, John, Movie Industry and Free Open Source Software, Modularity and Open Source, Modularity and disruptive innovations
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- DTP Crew
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments!
In this series of 21 interview segments, Dolby computer wiz John Gilbert talks about where Linux has penetrated the movie industry. And if anyone should know, it is this guy. John makes his living by using Unix and Linux to help make the magic of Dolby movie sounds and deliver those sounds to audiences. John makes a convincing case that Linux has found a home in the movie industry, and plans to continue living there for the foreseeable future. And this interview, shot in 2004, has certainly been born out in many respects by the passage of time as seen now in 2008.
In segment 07 (Tape 153~007), John says that Linux is changing and disrupting lots of industries, mostly in a positive way, but it is hurting some of the established companies in several industries. For example, lots of the old embedded operating systems and real-time operating systems are being displaced, partly because there are royalty fees and there are toolchain issues. [See Bill Huey's Digital Tipping Point interview for more info on real-time Linux]. For example, if you are making a $10 part, and you don't have to pay $3.00 for royalties for that part, you can really charge $10.00 for it, like you wanted to. A lot more people are getting into the embedded market because of Linux. Linux allows you to make cheaper products. In PCs, there is a certain price at which the cost of the Microsoft software is more expensive than the computer itself. [This interview was shot in 2004, and so John's point here has certainly proven to be true in 2008]. A manufacturer can't afford to put a $100 or $200 operating system on a cheap computer, but Linux is great for that. Switching topics, he says that SGI has been at the cutting edge of graphics technology until about 1997. There were a number of lay-offs. Shortly thereafter, competing companies started coming out with $300 components that would do the same thing as $60,000.00 SGI solutions. And of course, they sold lots of these cheap products, so SGI had to change gears, and that was due to Linux. SGI now has a good Free Software package. Linux is changing how SGI behaves. SGI can no longer just sit on its laurels. His thought on this point is continued in the next segment.
In segment 08 (Tape 153~008), John says SGI now incorporates some of its competitors' chips in its graphics computers. Linux allows you to build really cheap servers. Rather than buy Sun print servers, you can take an old discarded 486 machine and throw Linux on it and now it's a file server or a print server or a web server, and it's free (as in beer). Linux has had a toe-held in these low end servers. Linux is coming onto the desktop, but Linux's sweet spot is on the dedicated server machine. That is what Linux has done. When Linux started to become popular, Sun and HP ignored it, because they never thought that it would compete with their fancy machines. Now they are having to react, because it is eating away at their market share. At first, Sun and HP said that they had feature superiority, but the Linux community soon stepped up features to compete. Now Sun and HP have changed their strategy. Now, IBM, Sun, HP, and SGI have been forced to put marketing resources into the open source community, which often competes with previous products that they developed. The Sun Java Desktop is a Linux desktop. It's not quite Free Software, but it is open, meaning that you can develop Java for free. He continues his thought in the next segment.
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor Finnish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
All of John Gilbert's interview segments can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 10)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 11)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 12)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 13)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 14)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 15)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 16)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 17)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 18)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 19)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 20)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 21)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_153
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 007, John Gilbert
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
In this series of 21 interview segments, Dolby computer wiz John Gilbert talks about where Linux has penetrated the movie industry. And if anyone should know, it is this guy. John makes his living by using Unix and Linux to help make the magic of Dolby movie sounds and deliver those sounds to audiences. John makes a convincing case that Linux has found a home in the movie industry, and plans to continue living there for the foreseeable future. And this interview, shot in 2004, has certainly been born out in many respects by the passage of time as seen now in 2008.
In segment 07 (Tape 153~007), John says that Linux is changing and disrupting lots of industries, mostly in a positive way, but it is hurting some of the established companies in several industries. For example, lots of the old embedded operating systems and real-time operating systems are being displaced, partly because there are royalty fees and there are toolchain issues. [See Bill Huey's Digital Tipping Point interview for more info on real-time Linux]. For example, if you are making a $10 part, and you don't have to pay $3.00 for royalties for that part, you can really charge $10.00 for it, like you wanted to. A lot more people are getting into the embedded market because of Linux. Linux allows you to make cheaper products. In PCs, there is a certain price at which the cost of the Microsoft software is more expensive than the computer itself. [This interview was shot in 2004, and so John's point here has certainly proven to be true in 2008]. A manufacturer can't afford to put a $100 or $200 operating system on a cheap computer, but Linux is great for that. Switching topics, he says that SGI has been at the cutting edge of graphics technology until about 1997. There were a number of lay-offs. Shortly thereafter, competing companies started coming out with $300 components that would do the same thing as $60,000.00 SGI solutions. And of course, they sold lots of these cheap products, so SGI had to change gears, and that was due to Linux. SGI now has a good Free Software package. Linux is changing how SGI behaves. SGI can no longer just sit on its laurels. His thought on this point is continued in the next segment.
In segment 08 (Tape 153~008), John says SGI now incorporates some of its competitors' chips in its graphics computers. Linux allows you to build really cheap servers. Rather than buy Sun print servers, you can take an old discarded 486 machine and throw Linux on it and now it's a file server or a print server or a web server, and it's free (as in beer). Linux has had a toe-held in these low end servers. Linux is coming onto the desktop, but Linux's sweet spot is on the dedicated server machine. That is what Linux has done. When Linux started to become popular, Sun and HP ignored it, because they never thought that it would compete with their fancy machines. Now they are having to react, because it is eating away at their market share. At first, Sun and HP said that they had feature superiority, but the Linux community soon stepped up features to compete. Now Sun and HP have changed their strategy. Now, IBM, Sun, HP, and SGI have been forced to put marketing resources into the open source community, which often competes with previous products that they developed. The Sun Java Desktop is a Linux desktop. It's not quite Free Software, but it is open, meaning that you can develop Java for free. He continues his thought in the next segment.
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor Finnish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
All of John Gilbert's interview segments can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 10)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 11)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 12)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 13)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 14)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 15)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 16)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 17)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 18)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 19)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 20)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 21)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_153
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 007, John Gilbert
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
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For credits for this segment and all segments for the DTP main film, please go to this website:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/12
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- Christian Einfeldt, einfeldt at g mail dot com
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- 2008-11-16 08:22:17
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