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539 Dutch digital screens at the end of 2011 |
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 January 27th 2012
Digital cinema really took off in The Netherlands last year. At the end of 2011 there were 539 DCI compliant digital cinema screens in the country, 346 of which were capable of showing 3D movies. The number of D-cinema screens is now roughly double the number of digital screens at the end of 2010 and all seems set for total digitization halfway 2012. Read more >>
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Digital cinema - going it alone |
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 December 24th 2011
By now most cinemas have committed to a financing scheme for their switch to digital cinema. In The Netherlands market leader Pathé has its own VPF deals with the Hollywood studios, Utopolis and Euroscoop go digital with integrator Ymagis and the rest all signed with the national digitization plan Cinema Digitaal. Did everybody sign? No, some cinemas chose to pay for the digitization themselves. Two independent minded exhibitors explain that by paying for the equipment themselves they bought their freedom. Read more >>
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First Dutch arthouses sign with Cinema Digitaal |
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 November 8th, 2011
Dutch arthouses 't Hoogt (Utrecht) and Het Ketelhuis (Amsterdam) last week were the first Dutch arthouses to sign a contract with national D-cinema plan Cinema Digitaal. This marked the start of the second phase of the Cinema Digitaal roll-out. Arthouses Lux (Nijmegen) and Lantaren/Venster (Rotterdam) are expected to sign this week, so the first arthouses can be digitally equipped early next year. Read more >>
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MACCS International and XDC launch DCinema Hub |
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 November 7th, 2011
MACCS International, a software company for the international movie distribution market, and pan-European digital cinema services company XDC have announced to have created "DCinema Hub". This new joint-venture company provides a global order and delivery platform for digital movies that will span the entire cinema industry from distributor to exhibitor, including labs and delivery companies. Read more >>
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TMS: The cinema's operating system |
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October 31st, 2011
As cinema personnel discuss projectors, servers, 4K and 3D, one part of the digital cinema equation seems to diverge from the discussion. That is quaint as the Theatre Management System (
TMS) is the part of the digital equipment cinema staff will work with most. HFN visited two cinemas that work with a TMS, to see how it facilitates running a digital cinema. Read more >> |
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Cinema Digitaal not without growing pains |
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September 1st, 2011
The Dutch national digital cinema project Cinema Digitaal is in the middle of its roll out. The first projectors have been installed but the contract is still being tweaked, to make it as favourable for the participants as possible. Until now more than 175 screens have signed up to Cinema Digitaal, but not all Dutch cinemas are joining in. Read more >> |
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