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ISDCF Update

January 2010

ISDCF’s March demonstration has made significant gains two months before show time.  The goal of the demonstration is to show standards compliance for both distribution and accessibility features.  At least five manufacturers of digital cinema servers - Dolby, Doremi, GDC, Sony, and XDC - have stepped forward to say they plan to support the requisite [...]

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Servers, TMS, and Media Blocks

December 2009

Server manufacturers face the most challenges in digital cinema.  DCI continues to tweak its specification and test plan, requiring changes to designs.  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 Deployment section, is [...]

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Digital Cinema Servers & Theatre Management Systems (TMS)

June 2009

Digital cinema server manufacturers have their challenges. DCI continues to tweak its specification and test plan, requiring changes to designs. And the nascent 4K market will create a new market for media blocks that install within the physical boundary of the projector, requiring new designs.
The goal of achieving DCI compliance is complicated [...]

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2K and 4K

May 2009

During the several years while DCI was giving birth to its spec, there emerged 2K (2048 x 1080) and 4K (4096 x 2160) image resolutions. TI clung onto 2K, while Sony pursued 4K. Up until Regal’s recent announcement, Sony wasn’t taken very seriously. AMC’s decision to convert to Sony 4K, announced at [...]

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Other News

April 2009

A revised DCI v1.3 Specification is said to be in progress. Even if published soon, as rumored, more changes to the DCI specification will continue to be forthcoming. Some studios are considering changing the specification to allow a Key Delivery Message (KDM) to have an empty Trusted Device List (TDL), making it a business decision [...]

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Dolby

February 2009

Major changes were announced at Dolby. Ray Dolby stepped down as Chairman, with investor Peter Gotcher stepping up to the role. CEO Bill Jasper, who began as company treasurer in 1979, announced his retirement, with CFO Kevin Yeaman, who joined in 2005, taking over as CEO. Both Ray and Bill will remain on the board [...]

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