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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.”…

It Was A Very Good ShoWest 2009 For Sony

The popcorn has been swept away, the 3D movie banners folded, the quiet talk about how cinema is holding up in the recession has faded – ShoWest 2009 is over. While VNU will continue to host the Las Vegas-set cinema trade show and exhibition for one more year before NATO is rumoured to take th…

DTS Digital Cinema Back From The Not-Quite-Dead With Qube Deal

DTS Digital Cinema has been going through a bumpy ride in the past year, but appears to be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. One year ago DTS Inc. spun off its two non-licence division. DTS Digital Images reverted to being Lowry Digital under the new ownership of Reliance/Adlabs. DTS Digit…

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…

DFE Technologies Tackles Hard Drive Distribution

[viddler id=ad507ee&w=545&h=349] Starting with this entry we’re going to try something a little different and from time-to-time begin posting video interviews and demos of some of the technology and companies we come across. You may enter comments directly in each video by clicking on the …

Largest UK Cinema Chain Picks Vendors for 3D While Snubbing Third Party Integrators

The UK’s largest exhibitor Odeon (formed through the merger with UCI) has selected Real Image‘s Qube server and projectors from NEC to extend the company’s digital cinema and (particularly) digital 3D reach. From the Qube press release: Odeon and UCI Cinemas Choose Qube Servers Qub…

Sony Selling B-Stock Projectors at 50% Off

Who said recessions can’t be good for something? After spending the last two years lugging countless 4K projectors around the world to show them off to exhibitors Sony now finds itself with an inventory of B-stock units they would like to unload. Last week the manufacturer sent out an email…

Dolby Sheds Jobs From UK Cinema Manufacturing Division

As if the recent quarterly earnings reports from Warner Bros, Walt Disney and News Corp were not proof enough that the entertainment industry is far from recession proof, news is out that Dolby Laboratories will be closing down its UK manufacturing operation. Some 60 people will lose their jobs from…

Barco/GDC China Network To Grow Significantly

Mentioned in passing in the Hollywood Reporter’s round-up of Day 1 of CineAsia, the big news appears to have been the Chinese digital cinema network powered by Barco (projectors) and GDC (servers) from 7,00 to 2,000. In a questionably headlined article (‘CineAsia hosts digital revolution…

French Servers For French D-Cinema

Much to no-one’s surprise, French cinema chain CGR will use Doremi servers for their digital cinema deployment with Arts Alliance Media (AAM). This has less to do with both companies being French (though it doesn’t exactly hurt) than with AAM’s new found love for Doremi after the c…

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