Old Major Cinema Drawing

10 Years After~Revisting the Heinsohn Report

We must remember that new technology alone will not necessarily bring more people into the theaters.  One notable industry wag has stated that only one technical innovation has brought more people to the movies over the past 75 years.  It wasn’t sound.  It wasn’t color.  It wasn’t multi-channel digital sound systems with 5000-watt sub-woofers.  It was stadium seating.
We must keep the technology in perspective.  Theatergoers will indeed pay for a good time away from the house, not merely for dust-free pictures.  With digital cinema, we will redefine the way they experience the second most popular form of entertainment in the world.  Whether the movies get any better or not is, of course, a separate question.

For More Information
Here’s a partial list of web sites about various organizations and companies that are active in digital cinema.  This is by no means a comprehensive list of digital cinema resources but should provide the interested reader with a starting point for more research.  
AndAction Corporation — www.andaction.com
Barco — www.barco.com
Christie — www.christiedigital.com
Cinea — www.cinea.com
Digital Projection — www.digitalprojection.com
Digital Vision — www.digitalvision.se
Electrosonic — www.electrosonic.com
Grass Valley Group — www.grassvalleygroup.com
JVC — www.hughesjvc.com
MPEG — http://drogo.cselt.stet.it/mpeg/
NEC — www.nec-pj.com
Panasonic — www.panasonic.com/presentations
Pluto Technologies — www.plutotech.com
Qualcomm — www.qualcomm.com/digitalcinema
QuVis — www.quvis.com
Real Image Digital — www.realimagedigital.com
Silicon Light Machines — www.siliconlight.com
SMPTE — www.smpte.org
“Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” — www.starwars.com/episode-i/news/1999/24/digital_ei.html
Texas Instruments — http://www.ti.com/dlp/products/cinema/

 

 

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