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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to visit an interesting company that has been flying under the radar in the digital cinema space. I had never heard of DFE Technologies when I ran into Talla Garestani, DFE’s a project coordinator, while standing in line at the Apple Store in Woodland Hills. What she told me about DFE peaked my interest enough to want to find out more about them.
For the past several years DFE has been perfecting a hard drive duplication and distribution system for digital cinema. While some digital content is delivered to movie theatres via satellite, most of digital prints make their way onto screens via hard drive. There has been numerous reports about such hard drives arriving at their destination and not working properly. DFE believes their system could provide the solution to this problem.
DFE’s Digital Cinema System consists of several products starting with the SmartPac, a hot swappable SATA hard drive encased in a durable aluminum shell. Unlike most of the drives being shipped to theatres today, which were only meant to be removed from servers should they fail, DFE’s drive was designed specifically for traveling. The company has been shipping them out to theatres using a hard case with a form fitting foam insert. Read More
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