Amsterdam—Sep 10, 2007
Dolby SCC2000 Secure Content Creator Streamlines JPEG 2000 Digital Cinema Mastering in Europe
Dolby SCC2000 delivers reliable, efficient encoding and encryption for digital content to mastering facilities in the UK, Belgium, Iceland, and the Netherlands
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) announced today at IBC that its Dolby® SCC2000 Secure Content Creator has been installed in a number of mastering facilities across Europe.
Among the installations are Framestore CFC in the United Kingdom, Grid VFX and nWave Pictures in Belgium, SamFilm Group in Iceland and Nedci Pro in the Netherlands.
The new installations deliver a scalable mastering solution for JPEG 2000 digital cinema content and provide compression, encoding, packaging, and encryption. With the Dolby mastering system, digital movie releases can be prepared in the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specified JPEG 2000 format.
“The Dolby SCC2000 fits smoothly within a file-based work flow environment, enabling rapid mastering of digital releases in accordance with the emerging industry standards,” said John Iles, Vice President, Cinema, Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby is pleased to provide a solution that assists mastering facilities to respond quickly to the increasing demand for digital cinema content across the globe.”
Designed to work as a stand-alone unit or integrated into current postproduction and digital intermediate systems, the Dolby SCC2000 enables efficient 2K and 4K JPEG 2000 encoding for all digital cinema content. To minimize start-up costs and complexities, the system is offered as part of a complete package including equipment rental, training, and ongoing support. The option for generating secure keys offers key delivery message (KDM) creation and management via the Cosmos™ digital cinema database, operated by Dolby content-protection subsidiary Cinea, Inc.
Dolby is committed to supporting studios and exhibitors in the transition to digital cinema. In addition to providing support for content mastering, the company has completed its JPEG 2000 upgrades to Dolby Digital Cinema playback systems worldwide.
The Dolby SCC2000 will be on display at IBC in booth 2.218.