Paris—Jun 23, 2005
Dolby Announces First Dolby Digital Cinema Installations in France
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) announced today the launch of
its Dolby® Digital Cinema system in France at the Gaumont Champs-Elysées
Marignan cinema in Paris, part of the EuroPalaces group. The first installation
was deployed for the release of Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith.
Following the successful reaction to the first system, the EuroPalaces group,
France’s largest exhibitor, decided to bring forward the installation of its
second system in the Gaumont cinema in time for the opening of Sin City.
Dolby Digital Cinema is a digital cinema solution that provides cinemas with the
technology to store and decode digital files and then deliver pristine digital
movies to the big screen. Over the past month, Dolby engineers have worked
closely with engineering teams at the Gaumont Champs-Elysées and Cinemeccanica
to ensure that the installations of Dolby Digital Cinema and Cinemeccanica DLP
CinemaTM projectors went smoothly.
“We are delighted that the Gaumont Champs-Elysées Marignan cinema is already
seeing immediate value from the installation of our digital cinema solution,”
said Jason Power, Market Development Manager, Dolby Laboratories. “Both
exhibitors and audiences alike will benefit from our innovative system, which
enables a high-quality digital cinema presentation.”
Dolby Digital Cinema provides all the elements for digital movie playback and
show management: storing, decrypting, decoding, scheduling, and interfacing to
existing cinema systems, while delivering the quality, reliability, security,
and flexibility necessary for digital cinema. The system has been built to
industry standards as specified by the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI), a joint
venture of the major studios formed to establish industry specifications for
digital cinema solutions.