Digital Cinema rollout begins
Boeing Digital Cinema Places Order for Substantial Amount of Barco D-Cine Premiere Digital Cinema Projectors for Installation Across United States.
Las Vegas, March 5, 2002.Barco Digital Cinema has announced that the Digital Cinema rollout has begun with the first quantity buy and implementation. Boeing Digital Cinema will purchase a sizeable quantity of Barco’s next generation high-performance D-Cine Premiere Digital Cinema projectors. This is the first purchase of its kind in the industry. Boeing Digital Cinema is a business of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA).
Boeing Digital Cinema offers a direct-to-cinema delivery system, which securely transmits first-run movies and alternative programming via satellite and fiber-optic network.
Barco’s new digital cinema projector combines exclusive Barco designed features along with an enhanced Texas Instruments DLP Cinema™ Dark Metal 3 micromirror device, which offers 25% higher contrast (1250:1) than the previous TI DLP Cinem™ engine. In addition, the D-Cine Premiere has an exclusive set of advanced features, including a completely sealed, dust-proof engine, for consistent image contrast throughout its life and Barco’s proprietary Constant Light Output for consistent image brightness. In addition, the projector features local and remote touch-screen projector control options and local and remote (Ethernet) diagnostics.
“Every major change in an industry’s future begins with a daring act. Boeing Digital Cinemas’ innovative program is the start of what will be a major change for the Cinema Industry, one that will open a new world of revenue opportunities for exhibitors”, said Harry Mathias, Director of Barco Digital Cinema, America.
About Barco
BARCO Digital Cinema, a part of BarcoProjection, is one of only two active licensees of Texas Instruments DLP Cinema™ technology. TI developed DLP Cinema™ technology working in close co-operation with the key players in the movie industry, and will continue to work closely with BARCO to develop Cinema Projectors and support systems based on this technology, which meet the requirement of studios, film distributors and exhibitors alike.
BARCO, with headquarters in Kortrijk, Belgium, has three key activities which are all active in Image Processing. BarcoProjection is in various markets of large screen visualization. BarcoView develops and manufactures display systems for life critical applications, while BarcoVision is in systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2000, the entire BARCO group delivered a turnover of euro 751 million. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
You can find more information about BARCO on the web: http://www.barco.com
You can find more information about BARCO Digital Cinema on the web: http://www.barco.com/projection_systems/digital_cinema
