Sony announced its long-awaited “agreement in principle” to supply digital cinema systems to 4600 AMC screens. For Sony Electronics, this is a significant breakthrough. Not announced was how the higher priced Sony projectors would be paid for. Sony Electronics DCSS group (Digital Cinema System Sales) has now signed deployment agreements with fours
Archives for March 2009
Cinema Buying Group (CBG)
Cinema Buying Group, representing a large number of small independent theatre owners in the US, is seeking ways to move forward with its Cinedigm deal. One possibility under discussion with studios is to make widely available the weekly VPF offered by Paramount in its direct-to-exhibitor financing offer. Paramount’s offer is innovative
Closed Captions
State Attorney General-initiated lawsuits against exhibitors over ADA (American’s with Disabilities Act) compliance are now active in three states. As the potential grows to begin a large-scale rollout of digital cinema to major exhibitors, the ability of digital cinema to meet ADA compliance comes into question. To date, only the WGBH Rear
SMPTE
A short footnote in this report, but a hugely significant achievement, was SMPTE’s publication of the final packaging standard in March, completing the suite of packaging standards for digital cinema. This effort began in late 2001 with a group pulled together by your author, most of whom had been working on