CineForm Selected by Cinemeta for Digital Cinema Rollout to 300 Theatres in India

CineForm®, Inc. today announced that HD and 2K versions of its CineForm Intermediate™ compression technologies have been selected by Cinemeta, Ltd, for source acquisition, storage, and digital projection for Cinemeta’s 300-theater digital cinema rollout that begins in India in 4Q07.  CineForm is also announcing that it has developed a secure version of its compression technology called CineForm Secure™ based on 128-bit AES security encryption which Cinemeta is using for an additional layer of content protection.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/cineform_09_20_07.php

Christie Celebrates A Decade As Exclusive Digital Projector Sponsor For The Manhattan Short Film Festival

Christie, a global leader in visual solutions for entertainment, business and industry, is the exclusive digital projection sponsor of the 10th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival (MSFF), September 23 - 30, 2007.  As a founding sponsor of the international festival, it will provide the powerful Christie Roadster HD18K one of the world’s first native 1920×1080 HD 3-Chip DLP(r) projectors.  The projector will screen the 12 festival finalists in New York City’s Union Square Park on Sunday, September 30, where the winners will be announced.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/christiedigitalcinema_09_19_07.php

DTS Europe Announces Involvement With 2020 3D Media Consortium

DTS Digital Cinema today announced its participation in the 2020 3D Media Consortium awarded as an EU project under Framework 7.

This project has been formed to address the development of 3D media production, management and distribution. The project will draw on existing work completed by other media projects (e.g. IP-RACINE) as well as developing further know-how and understanding across a spectrum of activities and has Digital Cinema as a primary market application. The project will use semantic web technologies and will run for four years.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/dtsdigitalcinema_09_17_07.php

3D Biz Expo - stereoscopic 3D industry as well as other 3D visualization technologies.

This 2-day conference, exhibition and networking event explores markets, products and relationships across the stereoscopic 3D industry as well as other 3D visualization technologies.

Sessions include:

     ·      3D Markets and Outlook
     ·      3D Public Displays
     ·      3D Gaming
     ·      3D Cinema
     ·      Other 3D Displays and Technology
     ·      3D TV
     ·      3D Visualization

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/3Dbizexpo2007.php

Dolby SCC2000 Secure Content Creator Streamlines JPEG 2000 Digital Cinema Mastering in Europe

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced today at IBC that its Dolby(R) SCC2000 Secure Content Creator has been installed in a number of mastering facilities across Europe.
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International Datacasting (IDC) And Sensio Technologies Join Forces To Offer Integrated 3D Digital Cinema Broadcast Solutions

International Datacasting Corporation, and SENSIO Technologies Inc. announced today that they have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop and offer complete end-to-end integrated broadcast solutions for 3D digital and e-cinema. The announcement is being made on the occasion of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) being held in Amsterdam September 07 to 11.  IBC is the leading international event for professionals involved in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content world-wide. 

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/sensiotechnologies_09_10_07.php

Dolby Use Philips Watermark on Digital Cinema

At the IBC2007 Conference in Amsterdam today, Dolby Laboratories unveiled plans to allow users of its technology to incorporate Philips CineFence advanced anti-piracy technology to protect its digital content. The CineFence system protects storing, managing and playback of digital movies and new cinema releases shown via Dolby’s digital cinema solution can now be embedded with Philips CineFence forensic watermark, thus allowing the content to be traced and protected.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/dolby_09_09_07.php

DVidea Introduces Innovative Theater Management System For Digital Cinema Exhibitors At IBC2007

DVidea, the company focused on developing tools to meet the challenges of digital asset management for theater owners, today unveiled its state-of-the-art Theater Management System (TMS) at IBC 2007, currently underway in Amsterdam from September 7-11. Designed to meet the needs of digital cinema exhibitors, the TMS was developed with the cooperation of industry partners and end-users to provide the most comprehensive tools for media management and automation. Appointments for private demonstrations can be reserved by contacting William Sully at wsully@dvidea.com or by phone at +33 6 82 61 51 56.

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Xilinx and Barco announce single-chip JPEG2000 implementation

At the International Broadcasters Convention (IBC), Xilinx, Inc., the world’s leading supplier of programmable solutions, and Barco Silex, the leading center of micro-electronics of Barco, announced the joint development of single chip JPEG2000 encoder and decoder solutions. Based on the successful implementation of Barco Silex JPEG2000 cores on Xilinx® Virtex™-5 FPGAs, the solutions significantly reduce the cost of broadcast and Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) archiving, post-production, distribution and server systems. The JPEG2000 solutions will be demonstrated at this week’s IBC, Xilinx Stand 10.421 and Barco Silex Stand 10.620, in the RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/barcodigitalcinema_09_10_07.php

Movie downloads: Digital will generate valuable incremental revenue for the movie business, but fragmented Studio strategies will hamper market potential

The latest report from Screen Digest released today examines how the individual Hollywood Studios are adapting their businesses to online movie distribution. Notably, the report finds that a viable business will emerge in the US and W Europe for movie downloading, but warns that the Studios are following a fragmented path to digital distribution, with each major following a different strategy

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/screendigest-digital-cinema-report_09_09_07.php