Friday, December 19th, 2008
Science in motion
“When we turned it on…” Hear what happened and get all the inside information about the design, build and testing of the BRAVIA-drome from the people involved.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
See the BRAVIA-drome appear before
See the BRAVIA-drome appear before
your eyes
It took six weeks to build the BRAVIA-drome for the first time. You can see it happen in less than 30 seconds.
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
The Sony BRAVIA-drome sets a new world record
It’s official: the BRAVIA-drome is the world’s largest zoetrope. Measuring 10 metres across and weighing 10 tonnes, the massive motion machine has been declared a world first by Guinness World Records.
The BRAVIA-drome is all about world firsts. It’s a modern take on the world’s first moving pictures device, the zoetrope, a 19th-century invention that creates motion from a series of still images. And it’s a celebration of the world’s first Motionflow technology, which with 200 frames a second provides the smoothest on-screen action ever.
Get breaking BRAVIA-drome news here.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Designing a modern-day zoetrope
What’s 10 metres across, spins at 44km/h and could break records? It’s the BRAVIA-drome shown here at Venaria, in Northern Italy. We’ll be unveiling more photos and videos soon. Stay posted.
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
21st-century technology creates the ultimate moving image
It’s 1834 and William Horner has just invented the zoetrope. Its rotating drum transforms still images into a single moving picture. As the Greek name suggests, it’s the ‘wheel of life’ (zoe ‘life’, trope ‘turn’).
Fast forward to today and Sony’s Motionflow technology, which intelligently adds new frames to action scenes to make them appear smoother than ever. At 200 frames a second, Motionflow 200Hz is like a fast, fluid 21st-century zoetrope.
What better way to celebrate this technology than through the creation of the BRAVIA-drome, the most technologically advanced zoetrope in the world. We’ll bring you breaking news of our Motionflow 200Hz event, as it happens. Stay tuned.
