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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…

Ted Schilowitz

Ted Schilowitz and Barco Set To Announce New Secret Project at CinemaCon

Ask Ted Schilowitz whether he works in either technology or motion picture production or computer hardware or high resolution imaging or marketing, and the answer you’re most likely to receive is, “Yes”. The technologist was recently tapped by Barco, the cinema technology company,…

Has Auro Abandoned Cinema for the Home?

Auro Technologies surprised the cinema industry by announcing partnerships for bringing its immersive audio format to the home cinema market at the recently concluded CES. With only some 100 systems installed in cinemas around the world it would seem early for a switch of focus to the home. However,…

Cinemeccanica Brings Laser Projection to Europe

Italian projector manufacturer Cinemeccanica has announced a test bed installation of its Cinecloud™ Lux laser driven projector in Venezia Mestre, Italy. Calling it “Immersive Cinema” the manufacturer does not go easy on the hyperbole for the installation with IMG Cinema Multiplex: The M…

Luxe RealD

Can RealD Rival IMAX In The Premium Large Format (PLF) Market?

With Cinema Europe currently underway in Barcelona, two trends for premium cinema experiences that pull in opposite direction are hot topics for exhibitors gathering in Spain. The first is towards smaller, intimate venues that typically serve fine food and wine, as exemplified by The Electric in Lon…

Dassault demonstrates VR Paris in 3D for cinemas

In the car from Paris’ Gare de Nord station to Dassault Systèmes’ campus at the outskirts of town I got chatting to a British journalist for an education supplement. He confessed that he had never been to Paris before, but that he recognised the streets we were driving down from a video…

Texas Instruments DLP

Japanese Earthquake May Not Impact The D-Cinema Supply Chain

Shortly after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan on March 11th numerous rumors and speculation have swirled around the exhibition industry over its impact on the availability of digital cinema equipment. In part, this was spurred on by Texas Instruments reporting that their…

CinemaCon 2011: Dolby Lines Up New Releases For 7.1 Surround Sound

Dolby is using CinemaCon to announce a slate of new titles that will be released with Dolby Surround 7.1 audio. Most of the films are highly anticipated summer tentpole releases and include Walt Disney Studios “Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides”, DreamWorks Animation’s…

Barco Expands In Latin America and India

After launching their 4K projector at ShowEast, Belgium based Barco is ramping up their global sales effort with the announcement of two new deals. The first was a reseller partnership arrangement with Real Image in India, a country presently experiencing high growth in new multiplex openings. Real…

Christie Takes 3D To The End Of The World

[/caption] Quick, tell me what is the southernmost location in the world where you can see a movie in digital 3D? Silly question I know, but it’s thanks to Christie, the projector company, that I can even ask it. The company sent out a press release yesterday announcing their digital cinema pr…