It goes without saying that the shift to digital projection in cinemas thrust the cinema industry into the age of digital media, where no cinema has gone before. Just as consumers are continually bombarded by new “must have” technologies, exhibitors also face pitches from manufacturers to upgrade and improve their
Archives for July 2014
DCI Speaks – But is Anyone Listening?
DCI’s power to shape the market is dwindling. The organization was hugely successful in establishing the baseline for cinema technology during the rollout period. It’s compliance test program provided the basis for ensuring that standards were followed – with major exceptions – and that security systems behaved correctly.
Color and Lasers
“Can’t get something for nothing” as the idiom goes. For all of the problems associated with projected light level that laser illumination is slated to solve, the other side of the coin is receiving a lot of study. It may not come to something, but it most likely won’t be