This issue is our bi-annual Industry Report, where we step back to review progress and performance across the industry.
The Sales Cliff. Looking for ways to avoid the void.
Cutting the Cost of Illumination. Not all lamps are
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Archives for June 2012
The Sales Cliff
It’s not news that there has been a tremendous surge in the adoption of digital cinema around the world. The success of Avatar in 3-D convinced exhibitors that digital projectors were worth buying, and studios encouraged them to fill out
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Cutting the Cost of Illumination
The classic technology adoption curve has proved useful in the past towards understanding the market environment for digital cinema, and it continues to illuminate why things are so. Our current version is shown below.
Digital Cinema
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Strategies Without Sense: The Darwin Predictions for Digital Cinema
Mistakes are to be expected. But occasionally there are some real bloopers that deserve attention. These are projects that evolution should extinguish, so that no one wastes their time on that idea again. We think such projects are worth
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3-D Audio: It’s 1990 All Over Again
Multiple new cinema sound formats are being introduced, creating a situation that is similar to that which occurred in cinema two decades ago. We review the history, and the lessons.
It was the Optical Radiation Corporation, in a
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