Whois & Analysis for earthcam.net

EarthCam, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, provides webcam content, technology and services.

Founded in 1996, the privately held company delivers millions of images daily and develops technology to manage camera networks worldwide.

They were integral to the webcast on New Year's Eve 1999 that broadcast the turn of the new millennium.

The website, EarthCam.com, was a People's Voice Webby Award winner in 2006.

Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence.

When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.

For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent 30 times speed increase.

Time-lapse photography can be considered the opposite of high speed photography or slow motion.

A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.

The images may be individual still photographs or sequences of images constituting videos or movies.

The camera is a remote sensing device as it senses subjects without physical contact.

The word camera comes from camera obscura, which means "dark chamber" and is the Latin name of the original device for projecting an image of external reality onto a flat surface.

The modern photographic camera evolved from the camera obscura.

The functioning of the camera is very similar to the functioning of the human eye.

A gigapixel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion (109) pixels (picture elements), 1000 times the information captured by a 1 megapixel digital camera.

Current technology for creating such very high-resolution images usually involves either making mosaics of a large number of high-resolution digital photographs or using a film negative as large as 12" × 9" (30 cm × 23 cm) up to 18" × 9" (46 cm × 23 cm), which is then scanned with a high-end large-format film scanner with at least 3000 dpi resolution.

Only a few cameras are capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene, such as the Pan-STARRS PS1 and the Gigapxl Camera.

4K resolution, also called 4K, refers to a horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels and vertical resolution on the order of 2,000 pixels.

Several 4K resolutions exist in the fields of digital television and digital cinematography.

In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) is the dominant 4K standard.

In television and consumer media, 4K UHD or UHD-1 is the dominant 4K standard.

By 2015, 4K television market share had increased greatly as prices fell dramatically during 2014 and 2015.

By 2025, more than half of U.S. households are expected to have a 4K-capable TV (2160p), which would be a much faster adoption rate than that of Full HD (1080p).