From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Executive Summary

July 2009

  • TI goes 4K. TI announced its 4K strategy in response to Regal’s switch to Sony. Will they get Regal back?
  • NATO produces timeline for implementation of accessibility features in digital cinema.
  • ISDCF and the TDL. ISDCF delves into the Trusted Device List.
  • Screen Growth. Dodona releases a report predicting 50% growth in worldwide screens in the last half of 2009. What were they smoking?
  • DCIP. The good news: junk bond rates have fallen. The bad news: they’re still too high, and unlikely to go lower soon.
  • Cinedigm signs self-financing deal with cinema circuit Emagine. Details offered for how such financing works.
  • European Cinema Summit took its bow in June, with reasonable success. But can UNIC grow this into a viable show?
  • UK Film Council announces a new program to install approximately 20 additional systems using funds from the UK National Lottery.
  • Disney’s losses continue in studio entertainment division.
  • In-Three bows with G-Force.
  • XDC announces more screens.
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TI and 4K

July 2009

TI announced its 4K strategy in late June, which was amplified and in some cases expanded upon by its OEMs.  Fortunately, the company’s Series 2 projector design, intended for release by its OEMs early in 2010, was developed from the start to have the capacity for 4K content.  But until Regal announced its defection in [...]

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NATO and Accessibility

July 2009

NATO and ISDCF held a special 2 hour session in early June, with 100 people in attendance, to emphasize the importance of establishing an industry timeline for implementation of accessibility features in digital cinema.  There is considerable and reasonable concern that the US Department of Justice will issue a ruling that requires all US theatre [...]

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ISDCF and TDL

July 2009

ISDCF is rightly and finally taking a look at the security key management process for theatres.  This is taking place largely at the request of Disney and Paramount, although they appear to have the interest of their peers.
The so-called TDL, which stands for “Trusted Device List,” is legendary if not mythical.  It is supposed to [...]

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Screen Growth

July 2009

It’s hard to resist the temptation to announce projected digital cinema screen growth.  Perhaps the most memorable such event was that of Technicolor at ShoWest 2001, where it was announced that the company would have 1000 digital screens within a year.  This, of course, never happened.  Since then, the bar for a roll-out has gotten [...]

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DCIP

July 2009

How do you burn through $16.5M as a deployment entity whose role is to raise funds and install systems?  Certainly, there must be experts at DCIP on this subject.  According to Cinemark’s most recent 10K filing, that’s the total sum invested in DCIP by its owners to date.  To be sure, there’s a few programs [...]

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Cinedigm

July 2009

Cinedigm announced its agreement with exhibitor Emagine to VPF-finance 10 new screens under its phase 2 deployment.  Emagine already has some 40 other screens already equipped with digital cinema under Cinedigm’s phase 1 deployment.  The new arrangement is unique in that Emagine fronted the money for the equipment, and will be reimbursed by Cinedigm through [...]

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Other News

July 2009

Europe’s International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), comprised of the major exhibitor trade organizations across Europe, held its first European Cinema Summit (ECS) trade show in Belgium mid-June, one week prior to Cinema Expo.  It was a reasonable success.  In terms of organization, it was a significant departure from the ShoWest/Cinema Expo style of trade show.  [...]

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