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Rajesh Ramachandran of Qube Cinema Discusses Qube Wire

CJ Interview: Qube Cinema’s Rajesh Ramachandran On The Past, Present and Future of Qube Wire

One of the products and services that made a big splash at CineEurope in 2017 was Qube Wire, which was just being launched commercially by its developer, Qube Cinema. Some of the buzz around Qube Wire surely had to do with curiosity; both over what the new offering was all about, and why a companyRe…

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Cuba Has 300 Cinemas – But Only Two Are Digital

With Latin America and the Carribean belatedly converting to digital cinema, Cube looks set to be the last country in the region to make the transition. Despite the recent thawing of relations between the communist island and the US, the country’s cinemas remain in the control of the state, wh…

Christie Partnership With Cannes Film Festival

How Christie, Dolby and the CST Pull Off the Cannes Film Festival Each Year

Right about now an elite team of half a dozen cinema technicians from Christie are nearly complete undoing all of the hard work they concluded earlier this month when they completed preparations for the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival. Held for two weeks each May in the French Riviera resort town o…

Edward Lachman Shooting "Carol"

Cinematographer Edward Lachman Faces A New Digital Dilemma While Shooting “Carol”

There is little debate whether digital technologies have caused a certain amount of chaos in the cinema exhibition business over the past 15 years. As the world’s movie theatres converted to digital projection, both exhibitors and distributors underwent a significant learning curve to become a…

Creative Intent by Richard Atkins

NAB 2015: Where Does Creative Intent Fit Into the Digital Landscape?

In a presentation at NAB’s Summit on Cinema, Robert Atkins of Dolby Laboratories’ Applied Vision Science Group showed a slide that was on the lips of everyone who saw it. As depicted above, the formula Atkins presented is an attempt to help understand the problem of utilising wider colour volu…

Techniluxe

Technicolor and Deluxe Joining Forces on Digital Cinema Spurs Industry Consensus

One of the biggest breaking news stories to come out of CinemaCon last week was the news that two of the world’s largest content service providers, Deluxe and Technicolor, have entered into an agreement to launch a joint venture focused solely on digital cinema. The announcement on Wednesday w…

Global Digital Cinema Progress - CinemaCon 2015 - David Hancock IHS

CinemaCon: David Hancock Delivers Digital Cinema Update

The very first CinemaCon was held in 2011 with the worldwide conversion to digital projection at movie theatres already underway. Maybe that’s why David Hancock of IHS Technology has been a regular speaker on the first day of the event since it’s inception, presenting an update on the gl…

CinemaCon ICTa Carolyn Giardina

CinemaCon: ICTA Presents – The Unintended Consequences of Digital Cinema

(“Motion seats will be the death of me.” – Un-Named Studio Executive at CinemaCon) Joe deMeo of Barco and President of the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) introduces the panel session with the question, “after the [digital cinema] roll out what are we looki…

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Ymagis FY’14 Results Reflect European Cinema Market

The pan-European cinema integrator and service provider has released financial results for the fiscal year 2014. While the company merged with Belgian-based digital cinema operator dcinex in October, the results are for Ymagis’ operation alone, with the joint results published separately. The…

EDCF Film Festivals guide

EDCF Guide Highlights Film Festivals’ Digital Nightmares

The European Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF) has just published ‘The EDCF Guide for Film Festivals in the Digital Age.’ The free guide, available to download on the EDCF website (PDF link) was created based on feedback from professionals responsible for running major international film festi…