While the players listed in this group have content delivery as their primary focus, other entities also deliver content, including Cinedigm, Dolby, Qube, and GDC. Arqiva Arqiva provides satellite delivery services in the UK and Ireland. Other than the usual long range plans for world domination, it is mentioned here for its
Archives for June 2010
Projectors
Texas Instruments If 2009 was TI’s year of blunders, 2010 is its year for making amends. Nancy Fares, former Manager for DLP Cinema, left TI for an executive opportunity in a niche semiconductor company, and Dave Duncan, former right-hand man to Doug Darrow, stepped up to fill the role. Dave’s
Servers, Media Blocks, and TMS
Server manufacturers face the most challenges in digital cinema. They carry the bulk of the burden of meeting the DCI test plan. And the nascent 4K market will create a new market for media blocks inside projectors that will shift the way server technology is packaged and sold. Note
3-D
Of the four major suppliers of add-on 3-D technology for digital cinema, only three of them are reported in this section. Dolby, the fourth, appears in the Servers section. Panavision and Technicolor are reported, but note that neither is active in the digital cinema space at this time. 3-D tickets