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Barco Escape Gets First Real World Test With “Maze Runner”

This weekend’s North American debut of Twentieth Century Fox’s “Maze Runner” is enabling Barco to move forward with a new product initiative it first announced at CinemaCon earlier this year. Barco Escape is an immersive offering being developed by the digital cinema projector manufacturer that wrap…

CJ@IBC ‘Laser Projection part 1 – Seeing is Believing’

Peter Lude’ (now with Real D) dives straight into the deep end of the many questions buzzing about laser ILLUMINATED (his emphasis) projecton, ranging from safety to speckling. He even provides a quick Cliff Notes answers to those questions (see above). He then outlines the afternoon (in two…

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 ‘Life of Pi’ in Christie 6P laser 14 ftL 3D with Dolby Atmos

Full brightness 3D projection using laser projectors and Dolby Atmos was demonstrated for Life of Pi at IBC Big Screen. CJ was there and in the projection booth.

CJ@IBC ‘Tri-focal Camera Systems – Will Hybrid 3D prove to be the ultimate 3D?’

Native 3D shooting purists vs. 2D-to-3D conversion advocates may find common ground with the new technology developed by Arri and Fraunhofer, ued by ex-Disney tech guru Howard Lukk to shoot the short film Make Beleive, sneak peeked at IBC Big Screen

CJ@IBC ‘High Dynamic Range imaging – contrasting views?’

The quest for better-(not-just-more)-pixels is a big theme at this year’s IBC conference – primarily for television but with major implications for film and cinema too. For anyone thinking of buying a 4K/UHD TV, this is the session that tells you to wait until more than just the resoluti…

Cinema barrage

China Cinema Future – Barrage 2: Return of the Tucao

We were quite overwhelmed by the response to last week’s article about how China is inventing the future of cinema with the concept of ‘barrage’. (Thank you for all the tweets, Facebook posts, emails, LinkedIn mentions and other shares.) So we have decided to do what Hollywood alwa…

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…

Audience Entertainment Is Helping Moviegoers Become A Part of the Story

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtQ9XMKW9FI[/youtube] Now that the worldwide digital cinema rollout is nearing completion, with most of North America and a majority of Europe and Asia converted, companies, business models and content will begi…