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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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Executive Summary

May 2010

IMAX vs Everyone Else

Fox Brings Security Key Management into the 21st Century

Media Blocks and the Evolving Digital Cinema System

SMPTE Update

Toy Story and the Future of Sound

DCI and FIPS:  The Continuing Saga

Nancy Fares leaves TI

XDC and Cinedigm announce off-balance-sheet funding

European [...]

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Executive Summary

April 2010

RealD’s planned IPO.

US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals differentiates closed captions from open captions.

DCI and NIST: no smoke from the chimney.

Where did the Subtitles Go?

Progress in 3-D Subtitling.

SMPTE and the Ugly Slash.

NAB Digital Cinema Summit is a success.

Xpand sues GDC.

Katzenburg was right.

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Executive Summary

March 2010

DCIP Finally Announces. The announcement may have been anti-climatic, but details always tell a story.

Another deployment entity on the way?

DCI and NIST. A solution in the wings?

TI passes DCI. A true first in digital cinema.

Demonstration Success! ISDCF and NATO slogged their way through, with much learned and much to do.

SMPTE and cinema sound. There’s always [...]

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Executive Summary

February 2010

DCIP announces? While no formal statements have been made by DCIP, a lot has been said.

DCI and NIST. NIST demonstrates the potential to pull the rug out from under DCI.

SMPTE progress report.

Demonstration update. ISDCF and NATO digital cinema demonstrations in the coming month - very different in nature.

Pixar introduces new audio format with Toy Story [...]

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Executive Summary

January 2010

Avatar’s success will have an impact on digital cinema and motion pictures for years to come.

DCIP update. Rumors are that they have the money…so what’s the holdup?

ISDCF update. The March SMPTE DCP demonstration has generated incredible response from manufacturers striving to meeting SMPTE DCP and SMPTE closed caption standards.

SMPTE progress [...]

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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 [...]

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Executive Summary

November 2009

Kodak exits digital cinema. Not so surprising to readers of mkpeReport.

US exhibitors want more choice in deployment options.

European Commission seeks further input on the technology and business of digital cinema.

Satellite and terrestrial distribution in Europe.

ISDCF update includes discussions of the March SMPTE DCP demo, audio channel reassignment, hard drive failures and [...]

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