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Reel Cinemas Launches 26-Screen Luxury Cinema at The Dubai Mall

by Andrew Fenn

Reel Cinemas has launched what it calls “the most luxurious cinema experience in the world” at The Dubai Mall. The 26-screen multiplex features Dolby Cinema technology, Barco laser projectors, MX4D Motion EFX Theatre and …

Tags:Cinema| Cinema going| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 25 - Issue 38

CinemaNext Equips France’s National Centre of Cinematography

by Andrew Fenn

CinemaNext, a European specialist in cinema exhibitor services has completed the installation of three new auditoria at the CNC’s (France’s National Centre of Cinematography and Moving Image) headquarters in Paris. The site has been …

Tags:Back Panel| Cinema| France| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 37

Fraunhofer Highlights Codecs, LightFields and Packages

by Bob Raikes

The Fraunhofer had a number of demonstrations of interest. First, we heard about the new JPEG XS ‘mezzanine’ codec designed for contribution applications and optimised for around 6:1 or 8:1 compression. It was developed …

Tags:Cinema| Codecs| Fraunhofer| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 36

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 …

Tags:6p Laser| Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Movies & Content| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Nagra Enables First Cloud Cinema Show

by Bob Raikes

Nagra announced that Emagine Entertainment of the US has used Nagra’s myCinema CaaS content protection and HEVC compression to show digital cinema content at the Royal Oak Cinema in Detroit. The event was the …

Tags:Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Security| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Dolby Laboratories and Wanying Cinema Line to Open More Dolby Cinemas in China

by Andrew Fenn

Dolby Laboratories and Wanying Cinema Line have announced a partnership to extend the Dolby Cinema experience to more moviegoers in China. The first location is expected to open at Wanying’s flagship site in Shenzhen, …

Tags:Back Panel| China| Cinema| Dolby| Dolby Vision| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Lightspeed Adds US to European Patent

by Bob Raikes

We reported from on the European patent for Lightspeed and its light recycling technology. Lightspeed Design’s New 3D Modulator and More Last month, the company said that it has now received a US patent …

Tags:Back Panel| Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Patents| Polariser-based 3D| Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 30

ScreenX Comes to Switzerland for the First Time

by Andrew Fenn

CJ 4DPLEX is entering into new partnerships with multiplex operators all over the world and opening new ScreenX sites through existing partnerships. Last month, the company entered into a new partnership with multinational cinema …

Tags:Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Switzerland| Vol 25 - Issue 29

EclairColor Adds First DLP Projector to Its Range of Supported Models

by Andrew Fenn

For the first time, Ymagis’ EclairColor HDR system has been paired with Barco’s DLP Cinema Laser projectors and installed at the Gaumont Pathé Opera theatre in Paris, France. Previously, EclairColor HDR was exclusive to …

Tags:Barco| Cinema| France| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 27

HDR Cinema at the ADS

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The first speaker on the HDR Cinema topic was Christopher Buchanan of Samsung Electronics America titled The (LED) Future Starts Today. His talk was mostly a pep talk about LED Cinema especially, of course, …

Tags:Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| QLED & Advanced Displays Summit 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 26

CineEurope 2018 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Christie believes that the future is pure laser and, in contrast to Cinionic and Sony has decided not to offer Laser Phosphor in the cinema market. The company told us that pricing is at …

Tags:3D Cinema| Christie| CineEurope 2018| Cinema| Dolby| Large Display Monitor| NEC| sony| Vol 25 - Issue 26

CineEurope 2018 – Too Close to Cinemacon

by Bob Raikes

We went for a very quick visit to CineEurope in Barcelona – it turned out that, like the recent AWE event, the show didn’t start until 11.00 am! However, we got around the small …

Tags:CineEurope 2018| Cinema| DCI Compliance| Large Display Monitor| UST Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 26