Sony unveils launch plan for flagship F35 digital film camera

Sony Europe today officially revealed the design of its newest member of the professional CineAlta™ range, the F35 digital cinematography camera, which will launch globally towards the end of 2008.

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3D and Digital Movies Arrive in Calgary Theatres

Cineplex Entertainment is about to change the movie going experience in Calgary forever. As of March 14th, 2008, Calgarians will be able to experience the best in digital cinema including 3D movies, with the installation of two digital projection systems, one to be located at Cineplex Odeon Sunridge Spectrum and the second to be installed at Scotiabank Theatre Chinook. Additionally, we are very pleased to announce in association with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada, the first 3D movie to premiere using these new digital systems will be Hanna Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert.

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RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM ENCORE SCREENING NATIONWIDE MARCH 3

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers announced today that they will bring Peter Bogdanovich’s Runnin’ Down a Dream to theatre screens across the country for an exclusive, one night-only encore engagement on Monday, March 3, courtesy of The Bigger Picture, the alternative content distribution division of Access Integrated Technologies, Inc.

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Doremi’s Cinema Server Provides 3D Playback On 80% of Hannah Montana Screens

Doremi’s DCP-2000 cinema server provides 3D playback on 80% of the screens for Disney’s record breaking 3D film; Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert. As the playback source for the majority of 3D capable theaters worldwide, the DCP-2000 is a proven and integral component of 3D cinema’s spectacular growth and success.

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Dolby Audio Technologies Surround Oscar Nominations for Achievement in Sound Editing and Mixing

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced today that all Oscar®-nominated films in the Achievement in Sound Editing and Achievement in Sound Mixing categories were released with Dolby® audio technologies.

This marks the 30th consecutive year that films released with Dolby audio technologies have earned Academy Award®nominations for outstanding sound quality. Recognized as the de facto standard for high-quality audio in cinema, Dolby’s audio technologies, including Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Surround EXTM, have dramatically enhanced the cinema-going experience.

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LOTTERY BOOST FOR REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORTING UK RELEASE OF U2 3D

The UK Film Council’s Prints & Advertising Fund is backing U2 3D, the first-ever feature length live action film shot and exhibited in breakthrough digital 3D. Released on Friday 22 February by Revolver Entertainment, the film documents the band’s 2006 Buenos Aires concert in the Vertigo tour and is an exciting and immersive cinema-going experience unlike anything seen in cinema before.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/ukfilmcouncil_02_25_08.php

JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community

The Digital Preservation Coalition has examined JPEG 2000 in a report published today. The report concludes that JPEG 2000 represents a great stride forward for the archival community. The format now allows for greater compression rates and a recompression rate that is visually lossless.

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Ballantyne’s Cinema Screen Subsidiary Enters Long-Term Supply Agreement with IMAX for Large Scale Cinema Screens

Ballantyne of Omaha, Inc., a motion picture projection, digital cinema and specialty lighting equipment and services provider, announced today that its Marcel Desrochers Inc. (MDI) subsidiary, doing business as Strong Screen Systems, has entered into a long-term supply agreement with IMAX Corp. Under the agreement Strong Screen Systems/MDI will provide coated cinema screen sheets and structural screen frames (the key components of a cinema screen system) for use with IMAX’s proprietary large format digital, analog and 3-D projection systems. The agreement expands upon the two companies’ long-standing collaboration. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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Barco official digital projector supplier at 58th Berlinale

Barco, a global leader in digital cinema, is proud to announce it is the official supplier of digital cinema projectors at the 58th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.

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The Makeup of Digital Cinema Server Systems

Digital Cinema server systems, in production for several years now, are reaching hundreds of placements in cinemas around the world. Digital Cinema harnesses disk based post-production, compilation, transport, distribution, and play-out technologies into an end-to-end solution.

The operational and workflow requirements for these disk based systems require specific parameters be met which are outlined in the Digital Cinema System Specification (Version 1.1), as presented by the Digital Cinema Initiatives LLC to the Member Representatives Committee in April 2007. This month we’ll explore those server technologies and workflows applicable to cinema systems, while introducing the reader to some of the terminologies relevant to Digital Cinema. The exhaustive fine details of the entire specification (from post production to projection) can be found in the 146 page DCI specification.

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