ADVISORY/Christie Digital Puts the Spotlight on Digital Cinema at the 27th Toronto International Film Festival.Business Editors, High-Tech and Entertainment Writers ADVISORY...for Sept. 8-9 (Sunday-Monday) --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2002 On September 8, 2002, Media Principia's The Baroness and the Pig will be introduced to the world at the Toronto International Film Festival using a Christie Digital Systems DCP-H projector, the Digital Cinema projector of choice for large screen cinema applications. The movie will be the first High-Definition digital movie to be transmitted via satellite by Pixel pixel in full picture element Smallest resolved unit of a video image that has specific luminescence and colour. Its proportions are determined by the number of lines making up the scanning raster (the pattern of dots that form the image) and the resolution Systems and projected digitally at the Toronto International Film Festival. Christie digital projectors See data projector. will also be used to screen more than 60 other movies at the festival. Jack Kline, Christie's president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , will be available at the screening of The Baroness and the Pig to discuss this advanced technology. Kline will also be attending a Rogers Industry Centre's panel discussion on Digital Cinema distribution to be held at the Sutton Place Hotel Sutton Place Hotel is a collection of luxury hotels located in Canada and United States, owned and managed by The Sutton Place Grande Hotels Group with office in Vancouver, BC. Properties currently located in: Vancouver, BC; Toronto, ONT; Edmonton, AB; and Chicago, IL. - Stop 33 September 9, 2002, titled Making Waves and moderated by Daniel Langlois Daniel Langlois is the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc.[1]. Daniel Langlois also founded Softimage Inc., serving as its president and chief technology officer from November 1986 to July 1998. , executive producer of The Baroness and the Pig and chairman and chief executive officer of Pixel Systems. Christie has been lighting up movie screens for over 70 years and its line of Digital Cinema projectors, the DCP-H, are installed in more theaters around the world than any other manufacturer of DLP (Digital Light Processing) A data projection technology from TI that produces clear, readable images on screens in lit rooms. DLP is used in all types of projection devices, from data projectors that weigh only a few pounds to large rear-projection TVs to electronic Cinema(TM) technology. Discover the brilliant detail, color and clarity Digital Cinema provides, and how this technology will impact the future of movie making and movie viewing.
Date: The Baroness and the Pig
Sunday, September 8, 2002
6:00 p.m.
Where: Cineplex Odeon, Varsity 8, Manulife Centre
2nd Floor, 55 Bloor St. W.
Date: Making Waves (Panel Discussion)
Monday, September 9, 2002
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Where: Sutton Place Hotel, Stop 33
955 Bay Street
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