Sony Pictures Technologies – FY13 Three Year Plan 1 Core FunctionsKey Facts & Achievements Financial Summary Technology Development Group (1 of 2) 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. 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. Developing and deploying Content Finishing Platform for better title version management – PMC, WPF, SPTI. Content protection and usage rules for over 200 home entertainment and television deals in partnership with Digipol. Content protection and usage rules schedules for over 40 IFE non-theatrical and FilmBank deals, instituted contractual protection requirements in non- theatrical deals, and driving industry standards for IFE content protection as industry expands from in-seat to passenger owned devices. 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). On-going contribution to the SPTI EMEA Media Center project. 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. 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. FY13 Budget: $X.XM FY13 Headcount: XX
Sony Pictures Technologies – FY13 Three Year Plan 2 Core Functions (cont’d)Key Facts & Achievements (cont’d) Financial Summary Technology Development Group (2 of 2) 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. 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) Ongoing participation in Ultraviolet and other industry Interactivity WGs. Participation in BDA next generation Blu-ray working group. Conducted in-house, and participated in production, camera and lens tests (After Earth, No Good Deed, White House Down, etc). 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. French regulatory investigation that could make content protection on Blu- ray discs meaningless. 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 Working with anti-piracy and litigation to drive our agenda with search engines such as Google. Negotiated with Fox to ensure consistency between Crackle’s and channels’ content protection and Fox’s contractual requirements. 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. FY13 Budget: $X.XM FY13 Headcount: XX