We're reaching the "End of the Beginning" for digital cinema. Our twice-annual State of the Industry review of the business and technology of digital cinema.
Not all cinemas are created equal, nor are all movies created equal. To
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Archives for June 2011
State of the Industry
We're reaching the end of the beginning. Deployments in major markets are rapidly nearing the 50% point. The installation base of digital screens grew over 100% this past year, to 47,000, up from 22,000 a year earlier, a phenomenal growth
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One for All, But are All for One?
There are those in the industry that continue to believe that DCI has burdened the motion picture industry with a huge expense, and they each have their solutions. There is the annual bloom of nubies touting (wrongly) how their application
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A Digital Workflow Could Create a Lot Less Work
It is beating a dead horse for this publication to spend a lot more time discussing the lack of common and open methods for security key management. Open methods would encourage competitive, third party solutions that benefit mid-size and
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The Dilemma In Introducing New Technology
When the first steps taken towards standardization in 2000 were made, the prototype projectors in use were 1280 x 1024 in resolution. Cinematographers wanted color and contrast that could compete with film, and exhibitors wanted a format
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