Vista Group International was named PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year at the 2016 New Zealand Hi-Tech awards. The award was presented to Murray Holdaway, CEO of Vista Group International at the annual New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards gala at the ANZ Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland on May 20th.
Regal Entertainment Group has selected Arts Alliance Media’s Theatre Management Software to operate its Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center. The complex opened April 1. In addition AAM’s Screenwriter software is playing a key role.
Vista Group has signed Jinyi International Cinemas following a project piloting Vista Entertainment Solutions software in 19 of its cinemas over the past several months. Jinyi is the third largest cinema exhibition chain in China with 138 cinema sites across southern and eastern China. For VES, Jinyi is the second large-scale chain that the company has secured in China in the last 18 months following Dadi Digital Cinema in 2014.
Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema and Unique Digital today announced the creation of a distribution alliance to provide an innovative online Digital Cinema Package delivery solution based on Unique’s Movie Transit network, the first network to offer distribution of theatrical feature films via landline broadband.
ShowBiz Cinemas has chosen GDC Technology for its new Fall Creek entertainment center in Houston, Texas. When ShowBiz Cinemas opened its first entertainment center in Baytown, Texas in late October 2015, it had unique advantages over the competition: 10 movie theatres, 14 bowling lanes and a full bar, not to mention a passion for providing the best customer service.
GDC Technology has introduced the GDC SX-4000 Standalone IMB and XSP-1000 Cinema Processor, what the company calls a future-proof IMB with real-time DTS:X decoding and an advanced cinema processor. According to the company, when combined the bundled system enables a high-quality audio experience at a price point that allows exhibitors worldwide to affordably install immersive sound in auditoriums of any size and delivers realistic, rich sound to a much broader audience.
PVR Cinemas has selected GDC Technology to monitor its digital cinema equipment and automated systems for the entire circuit. When completed, this will be the largest circuit-wide rollout of the company’s comprehensive theatre management system and technology intelligent network operations center software.
Santikos Entertainment has extended its five-year strategic partnership with GDC Technology by signing a new agreement to install GDC integrated media blocks in conjunction with its transition to all-laser projection. Under the agreement, GDC Technology will deploy a total of 70 units of its SX-3000 Integrated Media Block with Enterprise Storage Plus, which provides 4TB of storage, with laser phosphor projectors.
GDC Technology Limited is rebranding its U.S. office’s extended warranty service plans as FlexCare in the Americas. GDC Technology USA has long provided customized after-sales coverage designed to offer cinema owners numerous options over the life of their GDC server products. FlexCare plans continue to offer the same level of increased protection for the customer’s investment based upon their exact needs.
MovieTickets.com has integrated Amazon Payments into its checkout process providing its customers with an additional payment option when purchasing advance tickets online. By integrating Amazon Payments, millions of users can now use Pay with Amazon to purchase advance tickets on MovieTickets.com.
