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	Digital Cinema FAQS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In digital cinema, a 4K image is delivered to the theatre in a digital "container" 4096 pixels wide by 2160 pixels high.
		In digital cinema, a 2K image is delivered to the theatre in a digital "container" 2048 pixels wide by 1080 pixels high.
		The term "3-D" is used in digital cinema to describe stereoscopic images, where alternating left and right images are displayed on a 2-D screen, and a method for viewing these images is employed such that each eye only sees the intended images.
	www.mkpe.com /digital_cinema/faqs.php (3727 words)

	Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Press Release-19.04.2006
		Under a cooperation agreement with the Digital Cinema Initiatives DCI, a consortium of the major Hollywood studios, the Fraunhofer IIS is developing test procedures for the certification of digital projectors, servers and other hardware for the digital cinema of the future.
		Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) was created in March 2002, as a joint venture of Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros. Studios.
		The purpose of the initiative is to establish and document voluntary specifications for an open architecture for digital cinema that ensures a uniform and high level of technical performance, reliability and quality control.
	www.fraunhofer.de /fhg/EN/press/pi/2006/04/PressRelease-19042006.jsp (488 words)

	Digital Cinema Initiative Distribution Package (DCP), Version 1.0
		From the Digital Cinema Initiatives Web site: "Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) was created in March 2002, as a joint venture of Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros. Studios.
		DCI's primary purpose is to establish and document voluntary specifications for an open architecture for digital cinema that ensures a uniform and high level of technical performance, reliability and quality control.
		The relationship of this to the Digital Cinema Initiative (and a European counterpart) was articulated in 2006 by the European Federation of Cinematographers: "The establishment of a new standard for the future digital cinema projection copy has been delegated to the SMPTE [DC28 technology committee].
	www.digitalpreservation.gov /formats/fdd/fdd000200.shtml (710 words)

	creativepro.com - Major Movie Studios Specify Digital Watermarking for Digital Cinema
		The Digital Cinema System Specification offers industry guidelines designed to help spur deployment of digital cinema systems for the hundreds of thousands of movie theater screens in the United States and around the world while establishing uniform levels of security, distribution, performance, reliability and quality control.
		According to the specification, digital watermarking is required in both the video and audio streams of digital movies, where it will be used as a forensic tool to help identify the theater, location, production version and even the date and time that a film plays at a specific theater.
		Digital watermarking from Digimarc and its business partners is increasingly being deployed by the entertainment industry to more effectively manage media content and associated rights and deter piracy.
	www.creativepro.com /story/news/23213.html (778 words)

	USATODAY.com - Digital film revolution poised to start rolling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Meanwhile, several studios, banks and digital cinema equipment companies are close to deals to help finance the $3 billion transition from analog to digital.
		Digital films also will be packed with anti-piracy technology — controlling who can show the film and identifying where unauthorized copies originated — potentially reducing the $3.5 billion that the Motion Picture Association of America estimates Hollywood lost last year to illegal copies.
		Mayo, who expects the digital transition to be virtually complete by the end of 2008, is doing his part to move things along.
	www.usatoday.com /money/media/2005-05-17-digital-cinema-usat_x.htm (2089 words)

	Pudupettai is India's 1st D-Cinema release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Qube Cinema is the only digital cinema system worldwide with a proven end-to-end solution with software for mastering, distribution, exhibition and reporting for a single screen, a multiplex or a complete digital cinema network.
		The film's digital master is in the MXF Interop format and is, therefore, compatible with digital cinema systems made by various companies around the world including Kodak and Dolby.
		EFX EFX has digitally converted the first Super 35mm Tamil feature film to the Cinemascope format through the Digital Intermediate (DI) process and enabled the exciting and vibrant colour grading that was creatively required by Arvind Krishna, the cinematographer of the film.
	www.chennaionline.com /film/News/2006/06sathyam.asp (1557 words)

	USATODAY.com - Top Hollywood studios agree on standards for digital films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		NEW YORK — Digital cinema, the long-awaited technology to make movies in the theater more vivid and versatile, took a big step from fantasy to reality Wednesday.
		The new specifications, from studio-backed consortium Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), require digital movies to have at least twice as many lines of resolution as a high-definition television — and clear the way for an alternative that's four times as sharp.
		Digital movies — which can be transmitted via satellite or high-speed lines, or shipped on a hard drive — will slash much of the $1.2 billion a year studios spend making and shipping celluloid prints.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-07-27-digital-usat_x.htm (519 words)

	Thomson Unveils World's Largest Digital Cinema Test Center
		The Technicolor Digital Cinema Test Center is located at the corner of Thornton Avenue and North Ontario Street in Burbank, Calif., immediately adjacent to the extended campus which houses the operations of Technicolor Content Services, Technicolor Network Services, and Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services/Technicolor Digital Cinema.
		Technicolor Digital Cinema then accepted projectors and servers into its facility for evaluation based on the quality of RFP submissions, and the willingness of manufacturer representatives to work closely with staff engineers on test implementations and their corresponding findings.
		In addition, the comprehensive assessment sequence was also based on specific requirements set forth by Technicolor Digital Cinema during the RFP process, and proprietary test materials, including projector test patterns, server killer patterns, and network and disk-based content sources, exclusively developed to fully measure the capabilities of the equipment.
	preview.millimeter.com /pressroom/thomson_digital_cinema_test_030906 (851 words)

	Digital Audio Video News -
		According to Dr. Marcellin: "Recent tests of the DTS Digital Cinema Encoder were conducted to compare the encoding quality of a digital cinema print using CBR encoding and VBR encoding.
		Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) was established in 2002 by seven Hollywood studios with the purpose of establishing specifications for Digital Cinema that ensure a high-level of technical performance, reliability and quality control, and specifies requirements for the distribution of Digital Cinema.
		DTS, a leading digital sound company, is now a leading digital entertainment company, with emergent capabilities and resources to integrate and support a fully digital experience for high-quality cinema presentation.
	www.docdvd.com /news_710.htm (1192 words)

	Digital Cinema
		A number of significant technology developments have occurred in the past few years that have enabled the digital playback and display of feature films at a level of quality commensurate with that of 35 mm film release prints.
		The combination of these digital technologies has allowed many impressive demonstrations of what is now called “Digital Cinema”.
		A subtitle track file is an integral component of a Digital Cinema composition and may be present in both mastering and distribution file sets.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~uscsmpte/digital_cinema.htm (638 words)

	Digital Cinema Report- The definitive news source for widescreen production and presentation
		The Digital Cinema Initiatives technical specifications are available here and can be accessed by clicking the link below.
		The National Association of Theatre Owners has released version 1.0 of its Digital Cinema System Requirements, detailing exhibition system requirements for use by digital cinema product developers and system providers.
		The Zanevsy Cascade Cinema has become the first digital cinema theatre in Russia.
	www.digitalcinemareport.com (364 words)

	Standard Setting Organization and Standards List
		Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) was created in March 2002 as a joint venture of Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros. Studios.
		Its purpose is to establish and document voluntary specifications for an open architecture for digital cinema that promotes a uniform level of technical performance, reliability and quality control.
		DCI also: facilitates the development of business plans and strategies to help increase deployment of digital cinema systems in movie theaters; supports the formalization of industry standards by SMTPE, ISO, and other trade organizations; and is examining the process of certification and compliance in conjunction with industry participants.
	www.consortiuminfo.org /links/detail.php?ID=383 (132 words)

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		The DCI's mandate is to "establish and document specifications for an open architecture for Digital Cinema that ensures a uniform and high level of technical performance, reliability, and quality control." To this end, the DCI released version 1.0 of its "Digital Cinema System Specification" in July.
		By watermarking Digital Cinema content, law enforcement will be able to track the content and thereby track the criminal.
		Digital Cinema is a going to be whole new ballgame for industry professionals, says Ordway.
	www.econtentmag.com /Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=14184 (845 words)

	DIGITAL CINEMA INITIATIVES digital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The recent announcement by Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), a joint venture of Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Brothers Studios, in the US last week will indeed give the adoption of Digital Cinema a boost.
		Eng Wah Organization deeply appreciates the initiatives being put in place and the talents that are developed to put Singapore on the global media industries' map, even as competition from the region grows.
		On this page: Digital Cinema Initiatives Digital Cinema Initiatives Digital Cinema Initiatives or DCI is a consortium of studios and vendors formed to establish a standard for systems.
	digilander.libero.it /a_digital/Digital_Cinema_Initiatives.html (467 words)

	Wired News: Will Digital Cinema Can Pirates?
		Digital projectors can't stop people from recording movies, but they can allow studios to trace every illegal copy back to the specific time and theater where it was recorded.
		This capability is a requirement of the Digital Cinema System Specification -- the playbook for digital theaters in the United States and potentially worldwide.
		The digital projection guidelines, published in July by a consortium of Hollywood studios called the Digital Cinema Initiatives, say every five-minute chunk of video must contain a 35-bit "forensic marker" specifying the date, time and location at which the movie is shown.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,69922-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 (656 words)

	Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC :: Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) Announces Final Overall System Requirements and ...
		HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) has completed the final overall system requirements and specifications to help theatrical projector and equipment manufacturers create uniform and compatible digital cinema equipment throughout the United States, it was announced today by Walt Ordway, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Cinema Initiatives.
		We have been advocates of digital cinema for nearly a decade, and this is a day we have long hoped would come.
		This is a significant milestone in the digital cinema development worldwide as it brings us a big step closer to realizing the true benefits of digital cinema.
	sev.prnewswire.com /entertainment/20050727/LAW06627072005-1.html (1647 words)

	Wired News: Hollywood Plots End of Film Reels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Digital Cinema Initiatives, the industry consortium created in 2002 to unite studios, theater owners and tech manufacturers in planning the shift to digital, released version 1.0 of its requirements and specifications for digital cinema Wednesday.
		Add in costs for overseas distribution and exhibition, and the move from prints to digital files could mean an eventual annual savings of up to $900 million.
		Another supporter, longtime digital cinema advocate James Cameron, is among directors pursuing projects that use stereo 3-D techniques created specifically for digital projection.
	www.wired.com /news/digiwood/0,1412,68332,00.html?tw=rss.TOP (718 words)

	4K Demo Of Film & Digital Cinema
		The DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) is the combination of the 7 Motion Picture Studios and their effort to test and suggest standards for Digital Cinema.
		Even the digital projection engineers generally do not make claims that they are achieving deeper fls with digital projection than a film print.
		A group that I'm in (the SMPTE digital cinema color ad-hoc committee) recently tested that for digital projection and came up with a minimum threshold of 11-bits (and maybe 12 for a few people in the front row).
	www.cinematography.net /4KDemoOfFilmDigitalCinema.htm (7101 words)

	Ultimate AV: Studios: HD Video Not Good Enough for Cinema
		A seven-studio coalition formed to establish technical specifications for digital cinema, DCI announced that it would push for a digital-cinema standard approximately twice the resolution of the best variety of HDTV.
		Existing digital cinemas would not meet a new upgraded requirement set by the DCI.
		Digital cinema vs HDTV is part of a long rivalry between movie studios and the television industry.
	www.guidetohometheater.com /news/11497/index.html (463 words)

	Michael's Digital Cinema Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Monday, July 10, 2006, 04:11 PM While in Europe for Cinema Expo, I heard confusion over movies distributed in MPEG2 versus JPEG2000, and concern over how US studios are demanding technology that is beyond reach of many small business owners.
		The first unified attempt along the path of interoperability was from Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), a joint effort of 6 major motion picture studios.
		The fact is that even if MPEG2 compression is used in digital motion picture distribution (as with pre-DCI servers), itâs still the same encryption and packaging thatâs used wherever interoperability is a concern.
	www.mkpe.com /blog/index.php?entry=entry060710-161123 (545 words)

	Digital Cinema Initiatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		DCI's primary purpose is to develop a specificiation that describes a common, open standard for digital cinema that can be adopted by all distributors, studios and vendors.
		On July 20, 2005, DCI released its first version of the final overall system requirements and specifications for digital cinema and made it available for download.
		The specification also establishes standards for the decoder requirements and the presentation environment itself, such as ambient light levels, pixel aspect and shape, image luminance, white point chromaticity, and those tolerances in which it should be kept.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digital_Cinema_Initiatives (390 words)

	Cinema goes digital
		The future of cinema is digital: At the International Broadcast Convention IBC in Amsterdam (September 9 to 13, 2005), the Fraunhofer Digital Cinema Network will be presenting the latest developments in the field of Digital Cinema.
		Cinema films are recorded at a speed of 24 frames per second.
		A presentation of some initial results of the EU-sponsored project will be given at the Fraunhofer stand at the IBC on Sunday, September 11, at 4:30 p.m.
	www.physorg.com /news6090.html (829 words)

	NATO Releases Digital Cinema Requirements
		He said the NATO Digital Cinema System requirements are also targeted at standards bodies such as SMPTE in its ongoing effort to generate standards for digital cinema, as well as any organizations that may engage in certification efforts.
		The requirements are part of an ongoing effort within NATO to educate those involved in the creation of digital cinema equipment and standards about the needs of exhibitors.
		Bob Gibbons, director, marketing and communications, Kodak Digital Cinema, said, “This is, as you know, an evolutionary time when standards compliance is a kind of moving target.
	www.digitalcinemareport.com /news/natorequire.html (718 words)

	Digital Cinema Initiatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On March 29 and 30, 2004, the Digital Cinema Initiatives, a consortium of studio and vendors involved in developing standards for Digital Cinema demonstrated a film they had made for that purpose at their lab in the Hollywood Pacific Theater in Hollywood.
		The final presentation was the digital projection of the edited 12 minute film, which intercut shots from all three formats.
		The Digital Cinema Initiatives is a client of the ETC-USC conducting its testing and standard development at the DCL.
	www.in70mm.com /news/2004/dcl (617 words)

	Film studios set to back digital standards - Technology - International Herald Tribune
		Hollywood has for years discussed how to create and distribute digital films with little success, in part because the parties could not agree on a standard technology for projectors or on who would pay to replace the equipment.
		A digital version costs a small fraction of that amount because it can be either on a disc or transferred electronically.
		A spokesman for Digital Cinema Initiatives, the group that developed the standards, declined to discuss the agreement.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/07/27/business/studios.php (326 words)

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