Digital Harmony Announces Special Technology Program Enabling Creativity in Future Digital Cinema Experience.Entertainment Editors ShoWest LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000 Digital Harmony Cinema to Bring IEEE-1394 Interconnectivity to D-Cinema By Enabling Interoperable Content Distribution Among a Multitude of High-bandwidth Cinema Devices Digital Harmony Technologies Inc, the leader in tested IEEE-1394 interconnectivity and interoperability in home theater An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear. Starting in the early 1990s, video inputs were added to stereo receivers and preamplifiers. consumer electronics, is today announcing a new program to bring interconnectivity to professional digital cinema at ShoWest 2000. The program, to be called Digital Harmony Cinema, and will promote Digital Harmony's IEEE-1394 protocol suite and DHIVA(TM) board solutions in addition to other technologies to ensure interoperability among digital cinema products. Digital Cinema, sometimes also known as D-cinema or E-cinema, represents the biggest shakeup shake·up n. A thorough, often drastic reorganization, as of the personnel in a business or government. Noun 1. shakeup of the cinema exhibition sector since the arrival of sound. D-Cinema enables new revenue models for replacing existing projectors and methods of content distribution in this rapidly emerging area that will affect the entire audio-visual sector. Digital Cinema is also the path for differentiating cinema from any experience that could be had in the home. From movie productions that might have different scenes with different endings all shot from different angles to movies with special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. such as those now seen only in theme parks -- D-Cinema promises to be an entirely new medium. Analysts at Screen Digest (www.screendigest.com) recently predicted that world cinema box office takings will hit $20 billion by 2003. Overall, the global market prediction is for a 4.5 per cent growth a year until 2003, when the market will top $20 billion for the first time in history. "Our forecasts show that the market will indeed grow over the next five years, at a rate only marginally down from the previous five years," said Ben Keen, Research Director at Screen Digest, "assuming a continuous supply of good product." The enabling technology for handling all this new rich audio-visual content, or as Screen Digest puts it, "good product," is just what the Digital Harmony Cinema Program is addressing. Possible candidates for Digital Harmony's new technology solution include digital image technologies such as DLP/DMD, GLV GLV Grating Light Valve GLV Golovin, AK, USA (Airport Code) GLV General License Limited Value GLV General Law Village , and HDLV HDLV High Definition Light Valve (IBM LCD projectors) , as well as innovative laser projector technologies, telecine The technique for converting movie film to TV/video. Pronounced "tel-uh-sin-ee," "tel-uh-sin-uh" or "tel-uh-scene." Because film runs at 24 frames per second (fps), and NTSC video runs at 30 fps, telecine inserts duplicate frames into the video to make up the operations, theatre technology and end-to-end digital film projection system solutions Michael Karagosian, a well-known industry consultant and former president of Cinema Group, Ltd., will be heading the new program. Karagosian has been working closely with the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, White Plains, NY, www.smpte.org) A professional society for motion picture and TV engineers with more than 9,000 members worldwide. It prepares standards and documentation for TV production. DC28 Technology Committee for Digital Cinema to define standards for D-cinema. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Karagosian, "there is a tremendous need to provide interconnectivity and a common platform in the digital cinema market. By providing an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and hardware-firmware solution to equipment makers, we hope to bring order to a situation that could otherwise adversely affect the roll-out of digital cinema." Digital Harmony president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Greg Bartlett is quick to add, "Providing interconnectivity for digital cinema is another piece of the Digital Harmony plan for making digital technology work for everyone, especially when it can enrich the entertainment experience and enhance self expression in the studio. We are a standards-based company, and we hope to be the voice of reason enabling interoperability in an extremely proprietary world." About Digital Harmony Technologies Digital Harmony powered the world's first multi-vendor IEEE-1394 home entertainment system in early 1999. Based in Seattle, Digital Harmony Technologies Inc. (www.digitalharmony.com) sells standard hardware/firmware modules for adding high-speed 1394 interfaces to audio/video devices (e.g., DVD players A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. , A/V receivers, televisions, etc.) Digital Harmony is offering their interoperability technology and expertise to new applications, including production studios (Digital Harmony Studio) and cinema (Digital Harmony Cinema). Digital Harmony is a trademark. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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