In March at ShoWest, the spotlight was on Sony Electronics as the deal to supply 4K projectors to AMC was announced. In April, the spotlight moved to Sony Pictures, who announced VPF deals with both Digital Cinema Implementation Partners
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Virtual Print Fees (VPFs)
Nearly all major studios report that they’re overwhelmed with deployment agreement negotiations at this time. By the sound of it, these are largely non-US deals. It’s likely that a number of these deals involve significant education of the
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NATO & ISDCF
The Americans with Disabilities Act in the US has been a challenge for exhibitors for the past 10 years. The technology to satisfy the law has been proprietary and not particularly cheap, but special interest groups choose to litigate to
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NAB Digital Cinema Summit
The NAB Digital Cinema Summit has been the primary event in the US for the discussion of digital cinema technology. I first presented the SMPTE packaging concept for digital cinema at this event in 2002. But the degree of innovation needed
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Other News
A revised DCI v1.3 Specification is said to be in progress. Even if published soon, as rumored, more changes to the DCI specification will continue to be forthcoming. Some studios are considering changing the specification to allow a Key
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