Studios like higher ticket prices. Exhibitors like higher ticket prices. Manufacturers want to sell new features to add to the movie-going experience, helping drive up ticket prices. But just as there’s elasticity in ticket prices, there is also elasticity in demand. Ticket prices having gone up, most
Archives for July 2012
ISDCF Plans Next Plugfest
ISDCF began conducting Plugfests several years ago in light of the fact that the industry had no mechanism in place to validate the interoperability of SMPTE DCP distributions. When digital cinema installations first began, dark screens occurred, and interoperability problems were ironed out movie-by-movie. That process was acceptable when
SMPTE Update
SMPTE 21DC Technology Committee held its quarterly meeting this month, with updates to report on the several activities that are ongoing. An amendment to 430-3 Extra-Theater Message (ETM), the core message specification for KDMs and FLMs, is in progress to clarify the implementation of the RSA public-private key algorithm.
Other News
Wanda received the approvals needed in its quest to buy US exhibitor AMC Entertainment. The deal was approved this month by China’s National Development and Reform Commission, and cleared by the US Committee on Foreign Investment. Qube Digital Cinema achieved DCI Compliance for its XP-D stand-alone server. Qube’s stand-alone server