Christie, Dolby, Lianzhong and Ace To Spur Digital Cinema in China

Christie, Dolby Laboratories (Dolby), Lianzhong (LZ) and Advanced Communication Equipment (ACE) International Co., Ltd. have joined forces to contribute to the growth of China’s digital cinema industry. 100 Christie DLP Cinema® projectors will be installed in Wuhan-based theatres located in Hubei, Henan, Jiangsu, Shanghai and a number of other Chinese cities. The partnership marks another major milestone in the local cinema industry after the digital cinema roll-out by state-owned China Film Group Corp. and Shanghai Film Group Corp.

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The Berlinale Film Festival Goes Digital – E-Cinema Server at the Festival 2009

The Berlinale first went digital in 2004. Now, in 2009, it is about to take the next big step: 29 of its total 49 screens are being equipped with digital cinema servers for the upcoming festival. This creates a standardized system for screening the films of the festival and European Film Market that are available in a digital format. The Competition will, however, continue to use d-cinema systems for its digital presentations.

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Starkville Mississippi Movie Theater Enters Digital Age

Silence. It’s a subtle – though noticeable – clue that times are changing for Starkville moviegoers. The distinctive, familiar sound of a film projector at work is giving way to the quiet of the digital era. In comparing the two machines in the projection room at Hollywood Premier Cinemas, the film projector gives off an audible sensation akin to that emitted from a small piece of lawn equipment. The slight whirring of an exhaust fan is the only auditory clue a digital projector is running.
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SIM2 Digital Cinema Projectors Deliver Opera From La Scala

SIM2, the Italian manufacturer whose striking high-performance projectors are known worldwide for their pristine video quality, has partnered with Emerging Pictures to bring opera live from the famed La Scala Operahouse, in Milan, Italy, to enthusiasts in Beverly Hills and New York. SIM2 will provide models from its Digital Cinema projector range for these high quality broadcasts of the La Scala Opera season at the Beverly Hills Laemmle Theater and Miller Theater at Columbia University in New York.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/SIM2-multimedia_12_19_08.php

SENSIO Rolls Out Its Live 3D Technology in the United States – Sells 50 New Cinema Decoding Licenses

SENSIO Technologies Inc., creator of the SENSIO 3D technology, announced the sale of 50 new licenses for its SENSIO 3D cinema decoding technology for use by Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. The Live 3D technology, which enables the live broadcasting of stereoscopic events, will be implemented in 100 digital movie theatres in the United States. An initial 50 licenses were already sold last July.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/sensiotechnologies_12_18_08.php

How will the recession affect Europe’s media markets?

Media analyst firm Screen Digest today releases its forecasts for key media markets in 2009. The company’s specialists in the TV, Video, Games, Mobile and Cinema teams forecast how the current hard economic times will impact their markets next year and in particular if it is myth or reality that in a recession ‘staying in’ really does become the new ‘going out’. http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/screendigest_12_17_08.php

Cinedigm Brings a Second Major Live Sports Event in 3-D to Movie Theatres, Fans Nationwide

Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp.(formerly AccessIT) today announced that it had struck a deal with Sony, FOX Sports and 3ality Digital to bring a second major sporting event in 3-D to its national network of digitally-enabled movie theatres.

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Barco trains and certifies over 200 digital cinema engineers

As part of Barco’s industry-leading digital cinema certification program, over 200 technicians have successfully completed the rigorous training courses held at Barco’s North American facilities in Rancho Cordova, CA.

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Projectors to use Laser beams

Digital cinema projectors get around this problem, but purists complain that the gamut is not as rich as film. That may soon change, though, thanks to a new digital cinema projector that uses lasers. It has been designed by a group of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, led by Bi Yong, in collaboration with a firm called Phoebus Vision OptoElectronics Technology, and it can produce an eye-popping 166% of the gamut of the NTSC television standard used in the United States—about 80% of the range of colours that the human eye can see.

http://www.digitalcinemainfo.com/economistdigitaltechnologyischangingcinema_12_11_08.php

Arts Alliance Media Secures 43 Million Euro Financing and Partnership With Arqiva for Conversion of European Cinemas to Digital, Satellite and 3D

Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading provider of digital cinema technology, deployment and content today announced that it has signed agreements for 43 million euros of funding from pan-European services company Econocom and various private investors, together with a long term strategic partnership agreement with Arqiva Satellite & Media for the satellite distribution of films and alternative content live events into European cinemas.

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