From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Executive Summary

June 2010

State of the Industry Report
(bi-annual)

US hits the 10,000 digital screen mark!

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 (AAM)
  • Cinedigm (formerly AccessIT)
  • Cinema Buying Group (CBG)
  • Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP)
  • Digital Finance Limited (DFL)
  • Film & Kino
  • XDC
  • Ymagis
  • Delivery
  • Arqiva
  • Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC)
  • Deluxe Digital Media
  • Microspace
  • Technicolor
  • Projectors
  • Texas Instruments
  • Barco
  • Christie Digital
  • NEC
  • Sony Electronics
  • Servers, Media Blocks, & TMS
  • Datasat
  • Digicine
  • Dolby
  • Doremi
  • GDC
  • Qube
  • XDC
  • 3-D
  • Dolby
  • MasterImage
  • Panavision
  • RealD
  • Technicolor
  • XpanD
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Digital Cinema Products and Services Charts

June 2010
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State of the Industry

June 2010

The first half of 2010 began a very different year for digital cinema.  In the past, manufacturers yearned for customers.  Now it is the customers that yearn for product.  In a wicked twist of fate, DLP Cinema projector manufacturers have been unable to fulfill the sales they spent a decade dreaming of.  One of the [...]

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Deployment Entities

June 2010

2010 will witness the rebirth of the deployment entity.  Over the years, the concept for how to operate a deployment entity has sharpened.  Some deployment entities have renegotiated agreements to better meet the needs of the market.  With the credit markets loosening up, and exhibitor appetite increasing for conversion, the action in digital cinema will [...]

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Delivery

June 2010

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.
Arqiva
Arqiva provides satellite delivery services in the UK and Ireland.  Other than the usual long range plans for world domination, it is mentioned here for its unique business model.  Most satellite [...]

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Projectors

June 2010

Texas Instruments
If 2009 was TI’s year of blunders, 2010 is its year for making amends.  Nancy Fares, former Manager for DLP Cinema, left TI for an executive opportunity in a niche semiconductor company, and Dave Duncan, former right-hand man to Doug Darrow, stepped up to fill the role.  Dave’s new position is welcome news.  He [...]

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Servers, Media Blocks, and TMS

June 2010

Server manufacturers face the most challenges in digital cinema.  They carry the bulk of the burden of  meeting the DCI test plan.  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 the Deployment section, [...]

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3-D

June 2010

Of the four major suppliers of add-on 3-D technology for digital cinema, only three of them are reported in this section.  Dolby, the fourth, appears in the Servers section.  Panavision and Technicolor are reported, but note that neither is active in the digital cinema space at this time.
3-D tickets are sold with a premium added, [...]

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