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December 2009

Executive Summary

December 2009

State of the Industry Report
(bi-annual)

This edition of mkpeReport addresses the state of the digital cinema industry, and discusses each of the major players.  Companies are organized by major product or services.  Included in this report:

  • Digital Cinema Products & Services Chart
  • State of the Industry
  • Deployment Entities
  • Arts Alliance Media
  • Cinedigm (formerly AccessIT)
  • Cinema Buying Group (CBG)
  • Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP)
  • Digital Finance Limited (DFL)
  • Film & Kino
  • Kodak Digital Cinema
  • XDC
  • Ymagis
  • Delivery
  • Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC)
  • Deluxe Digital Media
  • Microspace
  • Technicolor
  • Projectors
  • Texas Instruments
  • Barco
  • Christie Digital
  • NEC
  • Sony Electronics
  • Server,  Theatre Management Systems (TMS), & Media Blocks
  • Datasat
  • Digicine
  • Dolby
  • Doremi
  • GDC
  • Qube
  • Media Blocks
  • 3-D
  • MasterImage
  • RealD
  • XpanD
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Digital Cinema Products and Services Chart

December 2009
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State of the Industry

December 2009

2009 has been a remarkable year for digital cinema.  It did not produce the long awaited “holy grail” announcement from DCIP for the successful funding required to convert 14,000 US screens.  But several significant developments took place that will shape digital cinema for years to come.  Prime among these were the growth in 3-D screens, [...]

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Deployment Entities

December 2009

Sony and GDC are also prominent deployment entities, but discussed elsewhere in this report.
Arts Alliance Media (AAM)
UK-based Arts Alliance Media has several operations, including the funding, management, and promotion of alternative content; digital cinema mastering, distribution, system supply and financing; and operation of a web portal that enable 3rd parties to sell-through movies to the [...]

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Delivery

December 2009

While the players listed in this group have content delivery as their primary focus, other entities also deliver content, including Cinedigm, Dolby, Qube, and GDC.
Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC)
Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition is a joint venture of Warner Bros, Universal, and DCIP.  The joint-venture’s goal is to build and operate an electronic distribution utility for [...]

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Projectors

December 2009

Texas Instruments
2009 was TI’s year of blunders.  An internal cutback in DLP business development took place in January, largely due to the loss of sales in its DLP TV division as consumers switched to flat panel LCD and plasma sets.  Included in the cutback was a reduction of staff in its DLP Cinema development group.  [...]

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Servers, TMS, and Media Blocks

December 2009

Server manufacturers face the most challenges in digital cinema.  DCI continues to tweak its specification and test plan, requiring changes to designs.  And the nascent 4K market will create a new market for media blocks inside projectors that will shift the way server technology is packaged and sold.
Note that XDC, reviewed in Deployment section, is [...]

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3-D

December 2009

Of the four major suppliers of add-on 3-D technology for digital cinema, three of them are reported on in this section.  Dolby, the fourth, appears in the Servers section.
3-D tickets are sold with a premium added, typically in the $2-$3 range.  The premium is split between exhibitor and distributor in the same manner as a [...]

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