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Fulfillment Companies

Rethinking Security Key Management

November 2011

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Technicolor Cuts Deals with Deluxe and Cinedigm, Deluxe Steals Exec

July 2011

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A Digital Workflow Could Create a Lot Less Work

June 2011

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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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The Fulfillment Game

December 2010

Studios have been enamored with the idea of sending movies to cinemas digitally by satellite ever since digital cinema began to emerge.  Equally so, satellite operators have been attracted to the idea of transmitting movies to theatres to fill out satellite dead time.  Boeing and Raytheon were early contenders for this space, with Boeing the [...]

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Content Mastering and Security Key Management

December 2010

Competition in the fulfillment space can be brutal, as studios push hard to squeeze cost out of the process.  A service that is often coupled with fulfillment is that of content mastering, whose deliverable is the digital cinema package, or DCP.  Coupled with this service is an even more important one:  that of security key [...]

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Other News

November 2010

3-D to 2-D conversion pioneer In-Three was acquired by Digital Domain Holdings, a Florida-based company which touts director Michael Bay as an investor. Digital Domain scored a $51.8M deal in Port St. Lucie to build a 150,000-square-foot production studio. The money comes from city and county bonds, and developers. Digital Domain expects [...]

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What’s Up With TDL?

September 2010

The popular concept of Trusted Device List is a list of digital certificates of trusted equipment, along with the physical location of the device.  Such a list is of value to those charged with the creation of KDMs.  Without this list, security key management is impossible.
In the DCI spec, TDL has a slightly different meaning:  [...]

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