Friday links: HPA Tech Retreat, 'An Evening with Richard Edlund,' a $6 Million Home Theater

- TVTechnology.com offers an advance look at what'll be happening later this month at the annual Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat: new cameras, new displays, new microphones.

- Variety's David Cohen reports on a talk given on Wednesday by visual effects pioneer Richard Edlund:

[Edlund] noted that George Lucas had upstaged at least one of his own best scenes by adding CG characters to the background in his "Star Wars" re-release and observed that ILM in general tends to get "carried away" and put to much in the frame.

- A 4K digital cinema in your home? CNET fills you in.