State of the Industry – our bi-annual report covering everything (well, almost everything) digital cinema. If you thought 2010 was a good year, the numbers for 2011 are nothing less than phenomenal. Projection. Talk of high frame rates (HFR) and lasers dominated the year. We provide the details. Servers and
Archives for December 2011
State of the Industry – 2011
If 2010 was a great year for digital cinema, 2011 was phenomenal. By the close of the year, it’s expected that close to 60,000 digital cinema projectors were deployed around the world. Approximately 60% of those are outside of the US. It is a remarkable achievement. Just as it
New Developments Lie Ahead for the Projector Market
If Sir Howard at Sony was motivated to move the industry towards 4K, he must have been proud to learn that Barco installed the first DLP 4K projector in Cinemark this past year. It would never have happened without him. But sadly for Sony, it also can no longer
High-Channel Sound is the New Frontier
Cinema sound is experiencing a renaissance. It may be limited for now to large format theatres, but it’s a renaissance nonetheless. Several new high-channel sound formats are now in the market, and more are to come. The 16 channels of uncompressed sound in the SMPTE DCP format are