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  • Barco demonstrates its new 4K digital projector
    Barco held a live demonstration of a pre-launch version of its upcoming DLP Cinema® Enhanced 4K projector during a recent company visit by Cinemark executives. Barco will begin rolling out its 4K projector line in early 2011.




  • XDC to provide digital services for Rising Alternative content
    Leading European digital-cinema company XDC signed a cooperation agreement with Rising Alternative, a new pan-European alternative-content distribution company, to provide digital mastering and distribution logistical services for their alternative-content programs in Europe.




  • Metropolitan Opera HD series adds 300 theatres
    “The Met: Live in HD,” the Metropolitan Opera’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series of live performance transmissions into movie theatres around the world, will expand in its fifth season to 1,500 theatres (an increase of 300 theatres), while adding Egypt, Portugal and Spain to its network of now 46 participating countries.




  • DLP ships 4K chips to licensees
    Texas Instruments (TI) began shipping DLP Cinema® Enhanced 4K chips to its licensees, Barco, Christie Digital and NEC. Projectors with the DLP Cinema 4K chip are expected to be installed in Q1 2011 and several industry demos are anticipated before then by DLP Cinema licensees.




  • Digital 3D comes to Mongolia
    Digital 3D cinema recently had its Mongolian debut at the Tengis Cinema in Ulan Bator with the opening of Shrek Forever After.