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Industry news:
05.03.2007
BUG Acquires First Doremi Digital Cinema Mastering Station in Scandinavia.
Post-production and graphic design studio BUG is the first facility in Scandinavia to acquire Doremi Cinema's DMS-2000 mastering station to create digital cinema movie and advertising files. With Norway having pioneered both the digital advertising and digital cinema markets in Europe, the Doremi system will enable the mastering of content in line with DCI-specifications for the entire Nordic market. Press release:
26.10.2006
Unique Digital selected to digitise Swedish cinemas for advertising network
Contract with SF Media makes Unique world's largest independent digital screen ad operator DUBLIN, 26. October, 2006 - Unique Digital Ltd. has won the contract to build and operate the digital screen advertising network for Sweden's SF Media, the largest cinema advertising company in the Nordic region. The deal was announced after an 18-month long evaluation of different digital advertising solution systems and providers, which was aimed at selecting the most advanced technical solution available. Unique's system will replace 35mm advertising in the cinemas that are part of SF Media's country-wide exhibitor partnership, with the entire digital network in operation by early 2007. Together with its other installations across Europe the new deployment will make Unique Digital the world's largest independent digital screen advertising operator. Press release:
09.03.2006
D-Cinema Providers Roll Out Goods (by Sheigh Crabtree, Hollywood Reporter)
Digital-cinema service providers and tool vendors announced a broad array of hardware and software equipment initiatives Wednesday.
The announcements arrived days before ShoWest 2006, the annual cinema exhibition conference that kicks off in Las Vegas next week, where issues of d-cinema equipment interoperability and standards specifications are sure to dominate conversation. Read more here:
01.03.2006
WORLD'S LARGEST D-CINEMA INTEROPERABILITY TRIAL STARTS IN NORWAY
Norwegian cinema trade body FILM&KINO has approved funding for the NORDIC (NORway's Digital Interoperability in Cinemas) project, which will prepare the country for a complete migration to digital cinema, in line with DCI-specifications and future SMPTE standards. The project brings together Norway's leading experts in the field, including on-line ticketing portal Filmweb, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, telecom and pay-television operator Telenor, installation and service company Hjalmar Wilhelmsen and digital cinema advertising pioneers Unique Promotions/Unique Digital, as well as all of the major exhibitors and cinemas across Norway. Press release:
31.10.2005
Christie/AIX signs up Universal as third studio
US digital cinema provider Christie/AIX has signed up Universal as the third Hollywood studios for its planned 4,000 screen digital roll-out.
Universal will supply the venture with films from its own and the Focus Features and Rogue Pictures divisions and pay a virtual print fee for every film screened. Previous studio partners for AccessIT's venture are Disney and 20th Century Fox. Universal is next expected to release King Kong in digital, having previously only released two films in digital (Jurassic Park III and Van Helsing).
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