6p Laser – Display Daily

Update on Arcadia Cinema

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week I wrote about a PLF cinema facility in Italy that was upgrading to 100,000 lumens with an extra laser light source to show the new Avatar movie (Arcadia Cinema: …

Tags:3D Cinema| 6p Laser| Italy| Laser Projectors

Arcadia Cinema: 100.000 Lumens in PLF ENERGIA Screen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Cinemeccanica joined the list of companies preparing for Avatar 2 by upgrading an Italian PLF cinema, the PLF Energia Screen, to 100,000 lumens on a 30 metre wide screen. It has …

Tags:6p Laser| Italy| Projectors

GTC Releases White Paper on Silver screens for Lasers.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GTC Industries based in Mumbai, India, (Galalite Screens) sent us a white paper that explains its screen technology that is intended to minimise speckle and optimise image quality in 2D and …

Tags:3D Cinema| 6p Laser| Laser Projectors| Projection Screens

Hayden Planetarium and Christie Lead the Way to HDR Domed Solutions

by Chris Chinnock

The New York-based American Museum of Natural History, where the famous Hayden Planetarium is housed, held a press event on July 17 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, along …

Creatives Want More – of Everything!

by Bob Raikes

Christie had a big screen demonstration that compared Xenon-based projection with a full laser unit. Unfortunately, because of a schedule clash, we didn’t get to see the different demonstration, but got into the session …

Barco Maintains Strong Range Offering

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Barco, as usual, had a large and busy booth at ISE. Again, as usual, they gave away a lot of good Belgian beer every afternoon after 5:00. I wish I’d had time to have …

Museum Uses Christie to Switch from Film

by Bob Raikes

The National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, in the US has installed a 6P Christie laser projector to replace a film-based system and has found that the flexibility of digital has allowed the premises …

Barco Rolls New Cinema Projectors

by Chris Chinnock

Barco used CineAsia to announce seven new projectors including high-contrast and high-brightness flagship laser models, as well as five new laser phosphor models in the BLP, CLP, and SLP series (Barco Has Seven New …

Christie Shows Projectors and Announces New Contracts

by Chris Chinnock

Christie used CineAsia to preview a digital-cinema laser projector boasting a much higher efficiency than RGB lasers used in current cinemas. Based on Christie’s latest Series 3 digital cinema electronics platform, this RGB laser …

Want to See Billy Lynn at 120Hz in 3D and UHD?

by Bob Raikes

ArcLight Cinemas is working with Christie to present Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” (Ang Lee Shows the Future of Cinema Display (Updated) at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, which is equipped with …

Infitec Shows New 6P 3D Glasses

by Chris Chinnock

The new six primary (6P) RGB laser systems can offer outstanding 3D performance, but the quality of the 3D glasses to separate the left and right eye images has caused some complaints because of …

DS12 Barco Clearly Behind Laser

by Bob Raikes

Bill Beck returned as a representative of his employer, Barco, to talk about laser cinema going mainstream. He started by saying that all Premium Large Format (PLF) cinemas would be dominated by Laser RGB, …