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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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DCIP – The Wrong Press

September 2009

Perhaps because this was one of the slower months for new developments on the digital cinema front, the Hollywood Reporter jumped the gun with DCIP and reported that the financing deal was done and that digital cinema was ready to rollout.  Bloomberg followed within days with a better researched article.  But oddly, there were no [...]

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DCIP

August 2009

Ever the target of rumors, DCIP is said to be well on the road to obtaining a round of private equity for its first round of equipment purchases.  The equity financing would come through Blackstone Group, on the order of $200M to $300M, enough to purchase 3000 systems.  Assuming that their deployment agreements require 50% [...]

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Screen Growth

July 2009

It’s hard to resist the temptation to announce projected digital cinema screen growth.  Perhaps the most memorable such event was that of Technicolor at ShoWest 2001, where it was announced that the company would have 1000 digital screens within a year.  This, of course, never happened.  Since then, the bar for a roll-out has gotten [...]

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DCIP

July 2009

How do you burn through $16.5M as a deployment entity whose role is to raise funds and install systems?  Certainly, there must be experts at DCIP on this subject.  According to Cinemark’s most recent 10K filing, that’s the total sum invested in DCIP by its owners to date.  To be sure, there’s a few programs [...]

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Deployment Entities

June 2009

The number of deployment entities in the world is growing. The studios are now engaged in negotiating deployment deals on nearly every continent. Some of these will offer financing to their regional exhibitors. Some will manage the deployment contract but will rely on exhibitor-sourced funds. Some will do both. Some [...]

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Sony & DCIP

April 2009

In March at ShoWest, the spotlight was on Sony Electronics as the deal to supply 4K projectors to AMC was announced. In April, the spotlight moved to Sony Pictures, who announced VPF deals with both Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP) and GDC Technology of Hong Kong. For both deployment entities, Sony marked the fifth signing [...]

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ShoWest Update

March 2009

Box office may be doing well, but attendance at ShoWest was reportedly 30% down this year. If it wasn’t for the bad economy, one might have thought it was part of a devilish scheme to encourage Nielsen to step aside for when NATO gets back into the trade show business in 2011. But then again, [...]

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