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CJ@IBC ‘Immersive Audio – from the big screen to the small screen’

Immersiva audio is seeing increased take up in cinemas and Atmos and Auro are now also being launched in the home. This panel questions industry experts on its ins, outs and future.

CJ@IBC ‘Doug Trumbull Keynote – An Odessey of Cinematic Innovation’

Doug Trumbull delievered the IBC Big Screen 2014 Keynote and screened his film UFOTOG in 14fL high brightness 3D laser projection with Dolby Atmos audio - a truly remarkable experience.

CJ@IBC EDCF Global Update

EDCF provides an annual overview of the latest developments in digital cinema as part of the IBC Big Screen. CJ was there to take note.

Douglas Trumbull

IBC 2014 Big Screen Experience – Q&A With Exec Producer Julian Pinn

With digital cinema conversion completed in most of the world, this year the IBC Big Screen Experience (running 12-15 September in Amsterdam’s RAI) has be re-vamped extensively to focus on the latest issues facing the industry. Sessions such as EDCF have been moved from their traditional slot…

2014 Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival Overcomes Its Digital Dilemma

As the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival came to a close last week, artistic director Thierry Fremaux scheduled a last minute press conference so that journalists from around the world could speak with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. The director was visiting the festival for a 20th anniversary screenin…

Sun Xiaobin

China’s ‘Last Mile’ Plan for Digital Cinema: Ditch Western Technology

Is Chen Xing the biggest and most important digital cinema company that you’ve never heard of? Quite likely. With the conversion of existing cinemas to digital winding up around the world, future focus of manufacturers will be on territories with organic growth, before the the replacement cycl…

Fox Theatre Walsenburg

How the Gates Family Foundation Saved Small Town Cinemas from Death-by-Digital

As the clock ticks down for the end of 35mm film prints, so the race is on to save the last few small town cinemas that cannot afford the switch to digital. We are now talking months, not years. In the United States funds typically come from one or a mixture of three sources, allRead More

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

Latin American VPF Deals Hide Regional Problems – UPDATED

[Ed: We have received lots of feedback and updated info from readers fram and active in the region. ¡Muchas Gracias/Muito Obrigado! The article has been UPDATED THROUGHOUT as a result.] Much like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid headed to Bolivia after they had run out of banks in the Wild West to…

Unique MovieTransit

Unique’s MovieTransit Scores Major Deals in Denmark and UK

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44131442[/vimeo] While satellite delivery was the talk of CinemaCon 2014, Unique Digital notched up two significant victories in Europe that point to fibre delivery playing a greater role for digital cinema in Europe. The deals with UK’s BT and The Danish Distributors A…

Kinoton Is Latest Victim of Switch to Digital Cinema

Venerable German cinema equipment manufacturer Kinoton is no more, becoming the latest victim of the switch to the digital projection of films. The company issued a press release on 31 March stating: We, the shareholders of Kinoton GmbH, have decided to dissolve the company and end its business oper…

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