Systems Integration

Éclair Announces Deployment Deal with Brazilian Digital Cinema Integrator Quanta

Wed, 01/08/2020 - 12:19 -- Nick Dager

Éclair today announced an agreement with São Paulo-based Quanta for the deployment of Éclair’s broadband network and digital content delivery systems, including its innovative ÉclairPlay content delivery platform, across Brazil. The joint service offering has been designed to meet the needs of film producers, distributors and cinema exhibitors in Brazil seeking an alternative full-service digital content distribution & broadband delivery network, including mastering and trailer services, key digital message management and content delivery to cinemas around the country.

Aquarium of the Future Opens in California

Mon, 01/06/2020 - 13:45 -- Nick Dager

The Aquarium of the Pacific, located near the waterfront in Long Beach, California, recently opened its “aquarium of the future,” called Pacific Visions, which features an immersive theatre, multiple interactive art installations, and hands-on multimedia displays. Brian Edwards, owner of Edwards Technologies, the integration firm that designed and installed the theatre AV and FX system at aquarium, says the project is an example of the future of both the AV industry and of storytelling as a whole.

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Renkus-Heinz speakers

Supercines Installs Ecuador’s First Laser Projectors

Thu, 11/07/2019 - 11:00 -- Nick Dager

Supercines, Ecuador’s leading cinema chain, has opened a new eight-screen multiplex in the Ambato shopping mall equipped with Christie Vive Audio and Christie RGB pure laser cinema projectors, the first of their kind in the country. The multiplex lobby also uses 60 Christie Access LCD panels to advertise upcoming movies and promotions.

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Christie CP2315-RGB projectors
Christie Vive Audio sound system
Christie Access Series UHD551-L LCD panels

RIT Upgrades with Christie Technology

Thu, 10/31/2019 - 10:29 -- Nick Dager

The Rochester Institute of Technology, a leading university in Western New York, has upgraded its facilities to include a world-class creative technology and design hub at Magic Spell Studios. The 52,000-square-foot space brings together RIT’s academic strengths in game design and development, film and animation, new media design and more.

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Christie CP4325-RGB pure laser projector
Christie Vive Audio
Dolby Atmos

Lido Cinema Upgrades its Sound System

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 11:31 -- Nick Dager

Established in the 1920s, the Lido Cinema in Auckland is one of New Zealand’s oldest and most prestigious cinemas. Originally opened as a single-screen art house cinema, the Lido expanded with a second 44-seat capacity theater known as The Lounge in 2005. The Lido recently decided to upgrade the aging 5.1 sound system in The Lounge.

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JBL 7 Series reference monitors

Sree Kalidas M-Plex Installs Christie Projection, ViveAudio

Mon, 09/09/2019 - 11:51 -- Nick Dager

Sree Kalidas M-Plex has become the first cinema complex in the southern Indian state of Kerala to install cinema projectors featuring Christie RealLaser illumination and ViveAudio. Located in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, the newly completed multiplex has seven auditoriums. Christie’s Indian partner TSR handled the installation.

CinemaNext Upgrades Neocine Thader in Murcia, Spain

Tue, 08/20/2019 - 11:34 -- Nick Dager

European cinema exhibitor services provider CinemaNext, today announced the completion of its first fourth generation laser-powered 4K RGB projection system installation at the Neocine cinema in the Thader shopping mall in Murcia, Spain. The SP4K-25 Barco projector with Alchemy server setup at Neocine marks a European first by CinemaNext and its Valencia-based services center since Cinionic began selling the new Barco series 4 platform in April.

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Barco SP4K-25 projector with Alchemy server

CinemaNext Upgrades Omniplex Cinema Group’s Barco Projectors

Tue, 07/09/2019 - 12:49 -- Nick Dager

CinemaNext UK and Omniplex Cinema Group, Ireland’s largest cinema circuit, today announced the signing of an agreement for the sale and roll out of RGB+ Laser-light source upgrades and light engine clean for Barco projectors in 29 Omniplex auditoriums. The roll out across 24 Omniplex cinemas in Ireland and Northern Ireland will take place through the second half of 2019 and adds to the 2018 upgrade to laser of 15 of Omniplex’s largest screens.

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