Christie®, the leader in
digital cinema projection, has presented the world’s first full feature
screening in 4K resolution DLP Cinema® before members of the
Hollywood community. Held at the famed Mann Chinese theater complex in
Hollywood, California, the screening was presented for the annual Society
of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) technical conference.
SMPTE is the leading technical society for the motion picture industry. The 4K
presentation on a Christie Solaria CP4230 projector, featured Alfred Hitchcock’s
classic, “North by Northwest,”
which was meticulously restored by Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging
(MPI) with a process that included the highest available scanning resolution
and played back using an Integrated Media Block from Doremi Cinema.
“We were impressed by the 4K presentation of this timeless
Hitchcock chase thriller,” said Wendy Aylsworth, SMPTE Engineering Vice
President and Senior Vice President, Technology, Warner Bros. Technical
Operations. “The image looked superb, and the audience gave the
film enthusiastic and rave reviews. Both Motion Picture Imaging’s restoration
and the digital presentation were excellent.”
“The audience saw
details in the 4K restoration that were unlike anything ever seen before,” said
Brian Claypool, Senior Product Manager, Entertainment Solutions for
Christie. “It’s not an easy thing to showcase new technology to an
audience of engineers and technicians who belong to every discipline of the
film industry. To get such a positive reaction from them is proof that
superior 4K has arrived, and Christie’s 4K DLP Cinema solution meets the
industry’s highest standards in image quality for spectacular 2D and 3D
presentations.”
The new Christie
Solaria™ Series 4K projector line for digital cinema features the enhanced 4K
DLP Cinema chip from Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and is designed to be
compliant with the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specification. It was
the first 4K DLP Cinema projection system to be demonstrated publicly at IBC in
September 2010 and launched at ShowEast several weeks ago, where Christie began
accepting orders.
The latest
Christie Solaria CP4230 and CP4220 projectors feature the Christie 4K+4 advantage,
which includes maximum performance for 3D, Christie Pixel Track™ technology for
optimum image quality, simple maintenance procedures and the lowest cost of
ownership of any digital projector on the market.
