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 support such diversity, can the industry support One (digital cinema system)
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 rate unlikely to be repeated in percentage. 3-D may have
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 of consumer technology can do everything that DCI can.
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 smaller exhibitors. If media block manufacturers were to use standardized