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
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Archives for January 2009
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
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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
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Carmike
Carmike’s Christmas present was the announcement by Mark Cuban that he acquired 9.4% of the company. His acquisition of shares was handled without discussion with Carmike’s management. Cuban’s motivation was transparent: Carmike has over
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Other News
Screenvision stepped up to the plate in January with the transmission of President Obama’s inauguration to 27 theatres. While Screenvision had the capability of broadcasting the event to 200 sites, MSNBC opted to limit it to the smaller
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