Established in 1997, SF Corporation operates a chain of cinemas in Thailand under the SF Group banner. SF Corporation has targeted to go fully digital by early 2014 and is progressively converting its current film projection systems to 4K digital cinema projection systems from Sony, with more than 200 out of its 252 screens to be 4K-capable by early 2014.
Founded in 2007 by Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Skip Margetts, Helimedia caters to the aerial filming needs of clients across Southern Africa working in live-event broadcast, film, television and advertising. In the coming months, the company plans to venture into 4K filming.
More than 100 attendees joined West Coast video and film integration company Advanced Systems Group in San Francisco November 20 for its annual workshop, 4K Workflow 2013, which focused on the growing 4K landscape.
The Lichtburg cinema in Essen has converted both of its theatres to digital with Kinoton technology. The Lichtburg, one of Germany’s largest and oldest cinemas; it recently celebrated its 85th birthday and one of its theatres seats 1250 people.
Versatile Distribution Services today announced exclusive 4K and 2K turnkey workstations that feature Assimilate’s Scratch digital intermediate software running on HP Z820 workstations in North America and Latin America. The Scratch systems enable digital cinema and broadcast artists to generate dailies, conform, color-correct, and complete the finishing of features, documentaries, videos, and episodic TV within a real-time, integrated, user-friendly workflow.
Frank Capra’s 1934 comedy It Happened One Night was recently the subject of a lovingly painstaking 4K restoration by Sony Pictures Entertainment in advance of its release on Sony’s newly launched Video Unlimited 4K download service.
Dcinex will install 113 Sony 4K digital cinema systems in Cinema Pink theatres in Turkey.
Sony Electronics has announced a 4K movie-making project Sony/AFI 4K Shorts: Be Moved, to showcase the talents of the alumni of the AFI Conservatory, the world renowned film school of the American Film Institute.
As motion picture, television and commercial production continues to transition to ever-higher resolution digital video, Canon has introduced the DP-V3010 4K Reference Display.
Qube Cinema will provide its True 4K 3D system to help power a series of laser projection demonstrations being shown by Laser Light Engines the week of November 11 in Burbank.
