The Projection Room

Bow Tie Cinemas in New York will install Technicolor's film-based 3D system in all Bow Tie locations on 25 of its 150 screens.  Technicolor 3D is a new 3D system for 35mm projectors that the company says enables exhibitors to equip theatres for high-quality 3D at a fraction of the cost of installing a digital 3D projection system.

Kinoton Opens a New Technology Center for Service and Support

Kinoton has opened a new Technology Center just a few hundred meters from their head office near Munich, Germany. Modern technical equipment, state-of-the-art presentations technology and flexile seating enable versatile use. The new premises serve as training facilities, demo center and showroom. Besides this, they are perfectly suited for testing new projection and display technologies.

By Andrew Robinson
Managing Director
Harkness Screens

Digital projection has made single projector 3D solutions much cheaper and of a much higher quality than traditional film projector systems.  A single projector can be used.  All 3D systems rely on creating separate images for the right eye and left eye.  These are projected at very rapid rates, typically at 144 frames per second (called triple flash giving 72 images to each eye per second).  Different technologies are used to create the separate right eye and left eye image streams.

Kino Teatras Saulė is the Country’s First Theatre with Digital 3D

The Kino Teatras Saulė theatre in Šiauliai has become the first cinema in Lithuania to install a digital 3D system. Its first 3D presentation was Disney’s Bolt, which screened in late February.