Cinema Buying Group-NATO issues Digital Cinema Request For Proposals

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The Cinema Buying Group-NATO (CBG-NATO) has issued Request For Proposals (RFP) to digital cinema equipment and service providers on behalf of the members of the CBG-NATO — small to medium-sized independent theaters in the United States and Canada.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/nationalassociationoftheatreownersNATO_08_22_07.php

Digital cinema takes front seat at IBC

The theme of IBC2007 on Monday, 10 September will be digital cinema with an emphasis on major issues such as retaining and increasing movie theater audiences and how the availability of HD broadcasts and packaged media for home viewing will impact movie attendance, as well as emerging issues such as 3-D movie production and presentation.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/IBC2007_08_22_07.php

Australian Cinemas hindered by digital cost

AUSTRALIA’S cinema industry has some momentum but no clarity around the conversion of Australia’s cinemas to digital, according to Reading Entertainment Australia managing director Wayne Smith.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/australiandigitalcinema_08_22_07.php

JPEG 2000 Digital Cinema Successes and Proposed Standardization of JPEG XR

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC, the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission, (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1) and of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T SG16), responsible for the popular JPEG, JBIG, JPEG-LS, and JPEG 2000 family of imaging standards. The WG1 group meets three times a year, in North America, Europe and Asia. The latest meeting was held July 2-6, 2007, at EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland, hosted by Swiss National Body with delegates from 14 countries.

The success of JPEG 2000 in Digital Cinema continues to grow as the Digital Cinema Initiatives has recently approved the JPEG 2000 based DCI specification 1.1 for distribution of digital movies to theatres/cinemas worldwide. The strength of Digital Cinema is apparent with nearly 4,000 JPEG 2000 compliant servers deployed and nearly 5,000 systems expected by the end of 2007. The most recent JPEG 2000 digital cinema releases include Transformers from Paramount Pictures and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix from Warner Bros.

The Digital Cinema ad hoc group within the JPEG committee remains very active and successful in seeing their work adopted by the industry. The ad hoc group is currently working on profiles for archiving motion imagery for both cinematic and broadcast content, and has also begun exploring stereoscopic image compression.

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http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/jpeg2000digitalcinemasucesses_08_08_07.php

A Look At The Future of Australian Digital Cinema

Despite talk of big-screen televisions displaying the latest in games or movies pirated from the internet, going to the movies is not a ritual that is about to fade away. Humans are social animals. We like to go out, and will continue to congregate at our local multiplex, just as we do at the shops or the pub. Teenagers still want to escape their parents, and a trip to the movies is a way of sizing up potential partners.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/theaustralian_08_08_07.php

Digital Cinema Standard Is Coming

Read an article by Carolyn Giardina on Hollywood Reporter’s recent survey showing that the proposed plans call for more than 20,000 digital-cinema screen installations in the U.S. and Canada by the end of 2010.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/hollywoodreporter_08_08_07.php

Cinema Extreme Is On The Hunt For The Next Big Name in British Filmaking

Cinema Extreme is now on the hunt for the next big name in British filmmaking.  Up to four projects will be selected and funded at the end of the call for applications which runs until 7 September 2007. For details visit: website

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/UKfilmcouncil_08_08_07.php

Short Films Get “Extreme” Exposure As Filmmaker Picks Up International Award

Soft, Simon Ellis’s critically acclaimed short film, commissioned by Film4 and the UK Film Council with The Bureau for Cinema Extreme, has put Ellis on the international film industry’s radar. It won Best Live Action Short at the Toronto Short Film Festival, as well as the Audience Award and a ‘Special Mention’ at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/UKfilmcouncil_08_08_07.php

MJR Theaters Signs Deployment And Pre-Show Programming Deal With AccessIT

Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (”AccessIT”) today announced that independent exhibitor MJR Theatres (“MJR”) (www.mjrtheatres.com) will be the twelfth chain to convert 116 megaplex screens in seven locations to Digital Cinema using AccessIT’s Theatre Command CenterTM software and pre-show programming and Christie DLP Cinema® projectors.  

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/accessIT_08_02_07.php