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To: flickerful who wrote (7444)	4/17/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

flickerful, did you check this out? techweb.com Curtain rises on digital cinema (04/16/99, 7:16 p.m. ET) By Margaret Quan, EE Times The biggest hit since Al Jolson sang "Mammy" on screen in The JazzSinger, in 1927, or the biggest flop since Sensurround? As the NationalAssociation of Broadcasters exhibition opens Monday (April 19) in Las Vegas, the movie industry is abuzz over digital cinema, a filmless upgrade for today's analog theaters that ultimately promises high-definition, real-time broadcasts to neighborhood movie houses. In meetings next week, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) will hammer out a draft spec for how an electronic image should be displayed on a theater screen. The work adds to the momentum that's fast building for so-called e-cinema - spurred on, at least in part, by George Lucas' decision to show his much-ballyhooed Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace using digital projector technology at four U.S. movie theaters in June. But critical debates still remain over projection, compression and encryption technologies, as well as over digital's potential effect on the art of cinematography. ... .. Interestingly, Lucasfilm Ltd. opted to use both for the digital Star Wars "prequel" tour, scheduled to begin June 18. CineComm will provide the Hughes-JVC projector on four movie screens in two cities, and will work with Lucasfilm to transfer the finished film to CineComm's digital system. Lucasfilm has also signed on with TI to use projectors based on DLP. .... The article goes on. Do we know anything about CineComm and their technology? Thure