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Sources Say TI Moving Toward 4K

TI is developing but has not commercialized a 4K DLP Cinema system and is pushing for a big exhibitor—perhaps DCIP partner Cinemark–to come onboard, Celluloid Junkie sources report. Nancy Fares, business manager for DLP Cinema Products Group, was contacted for comment. She only responded: “We…

Daily Cinema Roundup-Tuesday 19 May

—Barco has enterted into a supply agreement with Kodak to provide exhibitors fully integrated digital cinema systems that combine Barco digital cinema projectors and Kodak’s digital screen management servers and theater management systems. “Barco has a long-term commitment to high quality proj…

Breaking News: Sony Is Regal’s Choice For Digital

UPDATE: A Celluloid Junkie source has confirmed that Regal has chosen Sony 4K digital cinema technology for its theater circuit, which consists of 6,793 screens in 551 theaters (that figure includes Imax screens and screens that already offer digital projection). The news comes just a few months aft…

Digital Faces Critical (Archiving) Dilemma

“The Digital Dilemma”—a 2007 report from AMPAS’ SciTech Council that examines the challenges of archiving and accessing digital motion picture materials—was the subject of the SMPTE’s Hollywood Section May meeting, held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood. The report concludes that th…

Digital Hollywood: Credit Market Starting to Recover

A group of 3D industry leaders shared varying opinions on the future of 3D—as well as their latest impressions of the credit market–during a panel yesterday at the Digital Hollywood confab in Los Angeles. “The market has recovered a little since December,” said James Dix, analyst at Wedbush Mo…

Emerging Pictures Aims To Be World’s 1st Carbon Neutral E/D-Cinema Network

New York-based e-cinema pioneer (though they hate the term – ‘e-cinema’, that is, not ‘pioneer’) Emerging Pictures has selected CDNetworks to “provide the low-cost delivery of large HD-file downloads for its “100% green” data delivery platform.”…

Sony Pictures VPF Deal With Regal & AMC Makes Warner Bros The Only Hold-Out Studio

Sony Pictures has become the next-to-last Hollywood studio to sign a virtual print fee (VPF) agreement with DCIP, the digital cinema integrator representing the three largest US cinema chains (AMC, Regal and Cinemark). This should help DCIP re-start the intended 3 1/2 year roll-out of digital cinem…

Heavyweights Debate Self-Financing Of Digital Rollout At ShoWest

[/caption] Las Vegas is a city known for its many spectacles; bright lights, showgirls, casinos, fancy restaurants and prize fights are all just some of the attractions. So, it should come as no surprise that ShoWest, the annual gathering of motion picture exhibitors and distributors in Las Vegas,…

The Commoditization of VPFs, or, Why Having a Deal With Hollywood Studios Isn’t The Big Deal It Used To Be

Scrabble Entertainment has announced virtual print fee (VPF) deals with five Hollywood studios (“Hello Scott from SPE, in the back.”) to roll out digital cinema in India. This may be the last notable VPF deal for some time, if not for ever. Scrabble has signed up Walt Disney Studios, Wa…

GDC Comes On Strong With New Features and Dealer Network

Unless you’ve been living on another planet, or simply working in an industry other than exhibition, it would be hard not to know what GDC Technology has been up to lately. After all, they’re not shy about telling you all their latest deals, most recent installations and newly released produc…