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IHS Markit Provides Data on Cinema Market

by Chris Chinnock

David Hancock, Director, Film and Cinema at IHS Markit provided some statistics on the state of the cinema industry at CinemaCon during the International Day presentations. His data was also sourced in some market …

Growing the Business: Joining Forces to Attract New Moviegoers

by Chris Chinnock

Speakers in this panel all emphasized the need to engaged with new partners to make the multiplex more interesting to consumers and to also connect better with consumers as well. “We think about cinema …

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Éclair Launches Hybrid Tone Mapping Approach

by Chris Chinnock

Éclair, which is part if the Ymagis Group, used CinemaCon 2018 to unveil a new Hybrid Tone Mapping (HTM) approach for creating an HDR cinema master and other deliverables including the SDR DCI version. …

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LG Display Considering LCD to OLED Fab Conversion

by Bob Raikes

LG Display’s CFO said that while around 15% of LG Display’s sales last year came from OLED TVs, the share will be in mid-20% range in 2018. In an investor conference call he said …

UltraHD TVs to Hit 100 Million this year

by Bob Raikes

UK analyst, Futuresource Consulting believes that UltraHD TV sets will hit 100 million unit sales this year, taking two thirds of the complete large screen market and expects positive market developments in the US …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 17

Ekioh Launches Multithreaded HTML Browser

by Andrew Fenn

UK software company Ekioh has unveiled Flow, a multithreaded HTML browser specifically designed for multi-core processors that claims to deliver a vastly improved user experience, with layout and animation performance said to be more …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 25 - Issue 17

CJ 4DPLEX is Rock’n and Roll’n

by Chris Chinnock

Seoul-based CJ 4DPlex bills itself as “the world’s first 4D cinema company.” The idea is to renovate or create theaters that are more like theme park rides with options to watch major movies and …

Cinionic Shows HC Projector, Lobby AR and VR

by Chris Chinnock

Cinionic announced a new Smart Laser High Contrast (HC) projector series at CinemaCon that feature 4K resolution, a laser phosphor light source but lower lumen output compared to previous HC models in the Cinionic …

Cinionic Demos Awesome Light Steering Projector

by Chris Chinnock

The most impressive demo at this year’s CinemaCon was the light steering projector in a room marked “Vision 2020” in the Cinionic booth. This is still a prototype, but Cinionic is now seriously looking …

Cinionic New Name for Barco JV

by Chris Chinnock

Cinionic is the new name of the previously announced joint venture between Barco, Appotronics, China Film Co. and CITICPE. It was announced at CinemaCon 2018. The name is a combination of cinema and ionic, …

Alternative Content Continues to Gain Ground

by Chris Chinnock

Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and a provider of digital content distribution and content protection, and the Cinema Buying Group – National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) have signed a definitive partnership agreement. Under …

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CinemaCon 2018 Introduction

by Chris Chinnock

This year’s CinemaCon event did not disappoint. Samsung continued to impress with their LED screen, which we saw at CinemaCon and prior to the event in a post production house and commercial theater in …