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DCDC Is Back. But Why?

March 2011

Perhaps one of the odder developments during CinemaCon this month was the announcement by Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) that it is once again in business.  DCDC is a joint venture of Warner and DCIP.  (One is left to wonder if this industry can ever get beyond names beginning with DC?)  While the announcement was [...]

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Google TV and Piracy

October 2010

It’s interesting to see how product manufacturers envision their customers.  The traditional high-end home entertainment center has a central preamp or switching center into which plugs every component that the customer buys, including set-top box, Blu Ray player, game player, and so on.  When the user selects a content source, [...]

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The iDon’ts of Digital Cinema

October 2009

With DCIP engaged in the syndication of its equipment bond, and Cinedigm gaining support for senior debt towards equipment, the wheels appear to be in motion for digital cinema to rollout.  But has the technology advanced sufficiently to insure stable installations, or are we still moving forward with blinders on, as was the case in [...]

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Sony Playstation Comes to the Cinema

October 2009

Sony Electronics sells not only digital cinema equipment, but through a completely separate division, also bundles that equipment with alternative content and financing.  Perhaps most interesting in its alternative content offering are Playstation-based video gaming competitions.  Sony, Playstation, and Naughty Dog held such an event this month in four theatres across the US.  The reason [...]

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Other News

September 2009

Sony is staging Playstation games in theatres in October. The “sneak peek” events will take place in the US on October 5 and 6, 6-11 p.m., at the following theaters:

Landmark Embarcadero, San Francisco, Calif.
Muvico Theaters, Rosemont, Ill.
Muvico Theaters, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Lincoln Square Cinemas, Bellevue, Wash.

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Other News

August 2009

Time Andaeus, Christie, and Doremi will join in an 800-screen digital cinema rollout in China.  Time Andaeus partnered with Doremi to develop its Montage CDCS2000 digital cinema server.  Shanghai Daily estimates that 50% of the country’s 4000 cinema screens will be digital by end of year.
Sony and RealD will be providing systems to CinemaxX screens [...]

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NCM and Screenvision

May 2009

NCM publicly proclaimed its interest in purchasing Screenvision in USA Today. NCM previously gained Screenvision’s anchor account, Loew’s Cineplex, following Loew’s purchase by AMC in 2006. It’s not clear that this is a good fit for NCM, nor a good thing for US cinema in general. Screenvision’s screens, while significant in number, [...]

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