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Planet Earth Playing Twice Daily at Technorama

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The Planet Earth is playing twice daily at the Orbitarium at Switzerland’s Technorama science center. From its location in the town of Winterthur Technorama offers a series of experimental spaces that gives visitors of all ages and backgrounds the chance to become acquainted with natural phenomena in an informal hands-on and self-directed way. One such space is the Orbitarium which first opened in 2008 as a way of giving visitors an ‘astronaut’s eye’ of Planet Earth and the natural events that take place around it such as hurricanes tsunamis and earthquakes.

3D Paint/FX to Convert Front Row’s 2D Library

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The Writers Group Film Corporation through its wholly-owned subsidiary Front Row Networks a Los Angeles-based concert production and distribution company has entered into an agreement with 3D Paint/FX to supervise its media conversion of existing 2D content libraries and other emerging content into stereoscopic 3D for distribution into the 3D marketplace worldwide. 3D Paint/FX based in Santa Monica California is a visual effects studio specializing in digital workflow stereoscopic production 2D to 3D conversion and technology integration.

Cinemark to Open NextGen Theatre in Los Angeles Area

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Cinemark plans to construct a nine-screen all-digital movie theatre that will feature the company's new Cinemark NextGen design concept in the Los Angeles area. The Runway at Playa Vista development will be located south of Santa Monica in the Playa Vista neighborhood. Cinemark XD is a complete entertainment environment featuring a 72 foot wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor screen plush seating and a custom digital surround sound system featuring the latest in sound technology. A Doremi server and a Barco DLP digital projector will deliver the digital images.

Carmike Opens First BigD Theatre in South Carolina

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Carmike has announced that the first Carmike Cinemas BigD theatre in the Carolinas will open this month at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Films in both 2D and 3D will be digitally projected onto a wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling screen measuring 82 feet wide and more than three stories tall. Quad-amplified four-way speakers and six 21-inch subwoofers will support the audio. The custom QSC Digital audio system will be tuned to a 7.1 speaker array with 16 channels upgradeable to 11.1.

Film Chest Upgrades Restoration Capabilities

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Film Chest has chosen a Digital Vision Golden Eye III film scanner and Phoenix restoration software to power their expanded pipeline for television and motion picture restoration and distribution. The systems were installed earlier this year in Film Chest’s Bridgeport Connecticut facility. Film Chest owns and distributes thousands of titles boasting one of the largest libraries of classic movies and television series’ in the world. They provide content to pay cable public and broadcast television motion pictures streaming distribution and a variety of other professional uses.

FilmLight Lowers Price of Baselight Till Mid September

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

FilmLight has lowered the price of its Baselight color-grading system until mid September. The Baselight One Access package can now be purchased for less than $50 000 and includes the latest Baselight 4.3 software  complete installation technical support and on-site operational training. “Baselight’s reputation and use by the world’s leading facilities on high-profile projects has caused some to believe that it is unaffordable but that is a myth ” said FilmLight head of marketing Mark Burton.

Golden Village Multiplex Goes Fully Digital with Barco

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Golden Village Multiplex in Singapore has completed full digitization of all its locations with Barco's Digital Cinema projectors. Barco technology was chosen for its ease-of-use superb image resolution and modular product design. Golden Village Multiplex boasts one of the widest screens (22.4 meters) in Southeast Asia and it is on this screen that the DP4K projector has been deployed. Kurt Rieder CEO Golden Village Multiplex said “Through our experience of having deployed Barco’s projectors we are assured of Barco’s quality and after sales service.

International 3D Society Now Accepting Awards Nominations

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The International 3D Society is now accepting nominations for its annual Stereoscopic 3D Technology Awards to be held in November in Hollywood California. The Society's 3D Technology Awards honor technological achievement in the stereoscopic medium including mainly cinema television portable devices special venue themed attractions video games computers and other media. A blue-ribbon 3D Technology Awards panel will vote upon the entries.

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