The Interesting Failure of Cinema-on-Demand
With Pathe and Cinérive terminating their trial with Gokino.ch the concept of cinema-on-demand is struggling to take off in the age of social media commerce….
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 19 May 2014
Could glasses-free stereoscopic 3D soon be a reality in cinemas? A research paper on ‘A Compressive Light Field Projection System’ from MIT seems to suggest so. Fascinating work if you can get your head around the science behind the screen,…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 9 April 2014
Normally we bury cinema openings further down in the Daily, but this merits top billing. Back in January we wrote about how premium cinema operator ArcLight had set its sights on Los Angeles’ Santa Monica market and whether this would…
Has Brazil cracked cinema-on-demand concept?
While Tivos and iPod have liberated consumers from the tyranny of fixed TV schedules and pre-set playlist orders of songs, cinemas remain a viewing-by-appointment medium. So could digital technology end this and make it a more show-by-show consumer demand oriented…