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First Macao China International Digital Cinema Festival a Success

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Its founders and participants are calling the recently completed Macao China International Digital Cinema Festival and Entertainment Technology Expo a huge success. The Festival began with ceremonial Chinese pomp and circumstance except the traditional ribbon cutting was replaced with a film cutting. The festival’s creative director Randall Dark says “I thought it was poetic that we cut 35mm film to launch our event.” The keynote speaker was Scott Ross former CEO and founder of Los Angeles post house Digital Domain.

Microcinema to Join Arqiva’s Digital Cinema Platform

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Arqiva has signed a partnership with Italian Digital Cinema distributor Microcinema to use Arqiva’s Digital Cinema platform on the Intelsat IS905 satellite to deliver live alternative content to its network of around 100 cinemas in Italy. 
 
Barrie Woolston Commercial Director at Arqiva Satellite & Media said: “We are delighted that Microcinema has selected Arqiva’s IS905 platform for distribution to this extensive digital cinema network.

New Video Acquires Rights to The Secret of Kells

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

New Video and GKIDS have announced that New Video has acquired U.S. television digital VOD and home video distribution rights to The Secret of Kells the highly acclaimed visual tour-de-force from the producers of The Triplets of Belleville. New Video is set to roll out the film on VOD digital DVD and Blu-ray on October 5th through its new home entertainment label Flatiron Film Company.   The announcement was made by Steve Savage co-president of New Video and Eric Beckman president of GKIDS the U.S.

Petrol Bags Introduces 10th Anniversary Line

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

To commemorate its tenth anniversary Petrol Bags has introduced the Black Deca line which the company says sets a new standard in professional bags. Black Deca equipment bags feature a sleek practical new design in striking black fabric and are packed with a host of industry leading new advantages. A plastic exchangeable logo frame lets the user easily add their logo for personal branding. An ingenious new internal LED lighting system illuminates the interior of the bag making contents much easier to identify and organize.

PMI Digital Upgrades Facility

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

PMI Digital has installed a Utah Scientific 400 digital routing switcher interfaced with a Barco high-resolution multi-viewer in its new 20 000 square foot facility in Pittsburgh. Besides providing video and audio production editing and post-production PMI distributes multiple syndicated satellite feeds for its clients. In January PMI relocated to a new facility with an all-new technical infrastructure. The company's new 144x144 frame router along with associated control panels and control software replaces a less robust analog/digital hybrid manufactured by another vendor.

Reinventing Cinema now Available from Smashwords

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Reinventing Cinema: The First Decade of Digital Cinema by Nick Dager is now available at Smashwords. In May 1999 Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace opened with digital screenings in a handful of movie theatres in and around New York and Los Angeles: digital cinema’s first decade was underway. Those screenings generated widespread visibility and publicity and developments began to occur on a more regular basis. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers began work on standards for digital cinema in 2001.

Entertainment Distribution Releases Sea Rex 3D

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Entertainment Distribution’s Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World has opened at select Imax 3D Theatres. The film will roll out at domestic and international Imax Theatres in both 2D and 3D throughout the year. European production houses N3D Land Productions and Mantello Brothers Productions produced sea Rex 3D which was four years in the making and cost five million dollars. The movie will roll out at domestic and international Imax Theatres throughout the year. It will open in Singapore in November and in Europe in 2011. In addition Luxor Group and Sarai Inc.

South Point Hotel First with Two XD Theatres

Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The owner of South Point Hotel in Las Vegas says it is the first location with two Cinemark XD Theatres on one property. XD provides the best movie going experience money can buy says Michael Gaughan. South Point opened its first XD theatre last October with Michael Jackson's This Is It making it one of only eight theaters using Cinemark's XD technology. In May South Point added the second XD theatre to its 16-screen movie complex with the opening of Iron Man 2.

XDC to use Arqiva's IS905 Digital Cinema Satellite Platform



Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Arqiva has agreed to provide XDC with satellite based electronic delivery to cinemas using its IS905 digital cinema platform and satellite infrastructure. Under a non-exclusive agreement Arqiva will deliver digital cinema packages and live events to exhibitors in XDC's network; XDC will also be able to transmit content to all cinemas connected to the Arqiva digital cinema network. Barrie Woolston commercial director at Arqiva Satellite & Media says We are delighted at XDC's decision to use our digital cinema services for their network.

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