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RealD Gets Serious with IPO - Update
It happened; Oversold is a bad thing on airplanes, but a good thing for RealD; Reuters reports that RealD's IPO raised 33% more than expected - 12.5 million shares are sold vs 10.75 expected, at $16 ...
Casting some light on 3-D
Laser Light Engines, a Salem, N.H., start-up, believes it has the solution: using lasers as the projector’s light source, instead of the standard xenon light bulb. And laser-lit projectors would have...
‘Avatar’ Digital Aliens Spell Doom for Independent Theaters
The Prince Charles, a London movie theater that’s more likely to screen “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” than a James Cameron blockbuster, is struggling to pay for Hollywood demands to go digital.
Movie theaters turn to live event screenings to fill seats
Theaters open new revenue streams by beaming in live events such as ultimate fighting and opera.
The return of 35mm 3D: Two competing processes add a new dimension to stereoscopic race
To add to the mix, there have been recent announcements of two competitive 35mm film 3D systems: Technicolor 3D, from one of cinema’s best-known brands, and Oculus3D™, a recent newcomer to the market...
Movie Theaters Secure Financing for Digital Upgrade
Trio of Cinema Chains to Get $660 Million to Pay for Conversions Enabling 14,000 More Screens to Catch 3-D Film Wave
France's UGC joins digital game
One of Europe's major exhibitors, UGC, has announced a pact with Paris-based digital cinema provider Ymagis for digital conversion of all its 605 screens: 373 in France, 88 in Spain, 80 in Belgium, 6...
Banking giant helps bring 3-D to movie screens
Lifting a roadblock limiting the availability of 3-D movies at the local multiplex, banking giant JP Morgan Chase & Co. has raised nearly $700 million on behalf of a group of the country's largest th...
In its current avatar, 3D vision gets a bit clouded
Said CEO of Scrabble Entertainment — sole digital deployment agency for Avatar in India — Ranjit Thakur: ‘‘We have been giving training to the staff manning projectors for 3D screenings. With digital...
Indian screens in new ‘avatar' will help better collections
An Indian company with non-exclusive right to deploy a projections system based on 2K DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) of leading Hollywood studios has already embarked on a mission to convert about 1...
A High-Tech Movie Battle: Which 3-D Glasses Are Best?
While the blue-skinned Na’vi are shooting arrows out of the screen toward the audience in the 3-D movie “Avatar,” another battle is being fought in the theater — over the goofy-looking glasses that m...
Fox Doubles Down on Cameron in $380 Million Bet on ‘Avatar’
James Cameron turned down a chance to make “Avatar” for Twentieth Century Fox more than a decade ago to wait until technology caught up with his imagination. Audiences will decide this weekend whethe...
The UK digital 3D cinema explosion
Cinemas are going through something of a renaissance of late, with a little thing called 3D bringing the public back to the big screen in their droves.
Indian multiplexes go 3-D for 'Avatar'
New Delhi: With celebrated Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron's much-anticipated three-dimensional (3D) sci-fi epic "Avatar" slated for worldwide release Dec 18, Indian multiplexes have begun setting ...
Kodak Quits Hardware Manufacture in Digital Cinema
Kodak will cease manufacture of all hardware within its Digital Cinema System and will instead focus on licensing the technology to other companies. Kodak cites an ever-increasing level of technical ...
Digital heads east: China, India and Korea lead the conversion race
Following the lead of the U.S. and European markets, in 2009 digital conversions in much of Asia continue to inch forward, propelled largely on a screen-by-screen basis as justified for specific 3D t...
Some theaters trapped in 2nd dimension by credit freeze
Hollywood executives likely will credit director James Cameron if his megabudget sci-fi film Avatar strikes gold for Fox next month.
German exhibs battle over digital cinema
German theater owners and the German Federal Film Board (FFA) are engaged in a high-stakes game of chicken with the future of digital cinema in the country hanging in the balance.
Picture sharpens for Digital Cinema rollout
The purse strings appear to be loosening for the long-delayed rollout of digital cinema.
Box office boost shows 3D is here to stay
Once regarded as a quirky fad for nerds wearing cardboard spectacles, 3D films are enjoying a mainstream renaissance and this time the medium is here to stay, entertainment industry experts say.
Technicolor rolls out 3D plan
Technicolor's 3D-on-film solution is finding some traction in the marketplace. The lab and post-production giant has announced support for Technicolor 3D from DreamWorks Animation, Lionsgate, Paramou...
Brussels plans tax on film distributors
The European Commission is considering imposing a fee on movie distributors to help fund the shift to digital cinema, which is expected to increase the EU's share of the global film market but is dee...
Feeling the heat: Latin America sees rapid growth of digital screens
Latin America has approximately 6% of the 2K DLP digital screens in the world. Almost 500 of these screens are situated in 19 territories. Nevertheless, just one year ago this region had only 0.7% of...
IDC wins new German digital cinema order
International Datacasting Corp. (TSX:IDC) has received an order from a new German customer that will be using IDC's satellite network equipment for a digital cinema service rollout in Europe, the com...
Theater Chains Seek $725 Million for Digital Upgrade
The three biggest U.S. theater chains are seeking to raise as much as $725 million to add digital screens needed for 3-D movies, resuming an effort that stalled last year, two people with knowledge o...
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NATO Digital Cinema System Requirements
This document represents exhibitor requirements for digital cinema systems that supplement the requirements of other industry organizations. These requirements are intended for use by system provide...
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Welcome to the official site of the Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG, and Joint Bi-level Image experts Group, JBIG. As well as our members' site, it offers other useful sources of information a...
Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard
MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), the committee that also developed the Emmy Award winning standards known as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. These standards made int...
Windows Media 9 Series for Digital Cinema Applications
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Sony develops "SXRD", a display device capable of generating high resolution, high contrast images o
Sony Corporation today announced the development of SXRD (Silicon X-tal*1 Reflective Display), a liquid crystal display device for use in projectors, which achieves a panel contrast of over 3000:1 wi...
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