Christie announced that the British Film Institute (BFI), the UK’s leading organisation for the moving image and the owner of the world’s largest film and television archive, has installed Real|Laser illumination technology in its main screening room, NFT1, at its flagship venue BFI Southbank. Following a trial period at the BFI London Film Festival, a new CP4420-RGB pure laser projector.

Christie has a longstanding relationship with the BFI. The previous Christie projector installed in NFT1 had been in-situ for an impressive 14 years. The new CP4420-RGB 20,000 lumen projector has a wide gamut for color fidelity and is future-proofed with high frame rate capability (4K 120fps or 4K 60fps/eye 3D playback). On the operational side, the projector is designed with a very long-lasting light source – more than 50,000 hours of stable DCI-specified brightness.

The refurbishment of NFT1 also updated the audio system to Christie Vive Audio, which includes five LA3i line arrays and five S215 subwoofers for the screen channels, two S218LP subwoofers and LA3Si surround loudspeakers