CBG told members at ShowEast that it didn’t have a financing option that would include 2nd run theatres. Inclusion of everyone in the deal being the original mantra for CBG, this sudden shift in direction had the potential to cause much upset. Fortunately, the problem of including everyone now appears to
Archives for January 2009
Texas Instruments
Just when the industry thought that digital cinema had found its value-added feature, Texas Instruments had a different idea. Why not, TI thought, charge an additional fee for turning on the 3-D feature in projectors? To enable this, TI introduced the ability to lockout the sequential 3-D capability of its projectors
NATO
NATO’s Digital Cinema System Requirements have taken on more significance to the vendor community as it competes for sales with dozens of exhibitors. The original intent of the work was to bring exhibitors together in their requirements so as to not ask for disparate and incompatible capabilities with both vendors and
Technicolor
It’s often said that no company has spent more money in digital cinema than Technicolor. In 1999, Technicolor entered into an alliance with Real Image Digital and Sarnoff to venture into the deployment of digital cinema. That was followed by a joint venture with Qualcomm to do the same. In 2005,