JBL Loudspeakers Provide Spectacular Theatre Sound For CinemaxÆ SummerScreen Free Outdoor Film Festival

24-May-00

JBL, the leader in professional and home theatre sound, today announced it is co-sponsoring the CinemaxÆ SummerScreen tour, a first-of-its-kind free outdoor film festival that will visit ten cities nationwide this summer. JBL will be supplying a complete multichannel loudspeaker system for the tour, which will show three hit movies over three nights in each location on a giant screen with theatre-style digital surround sound. Co-sponsors JBL and DolbyÆ Laboratories are providing AOL/Time Warner's cable movie channel, Cinemax, and its SummerScreen tour with a spectacular large-scale multichannel sound system, to deliver a thrilling movie-going experience unlike any other. The system will feature four JBL loudspeaker arrays on the perimeter of the field, along with loudspeakers placed behind the screen, and high-powered subwoofers. The system will utilize state-of-the-art Dolby Digital electronics to immerse the audience in a vast, enveloping 360-degree sound field, and will include dozens of loudspeaker enclosures driven by over 35,000 watts of amplification.Currently slated films include ""Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,"" starring Jim Carrey as the comic crime-solver, ""Top Gun,"" the pulse-pounding Tom Cruise action-adventure movie and, as the grand finale, ""E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,"" the classic Steven Spielberg fantasy and one of the most popular films in history. The Cinemax SummerScreen grounds will open to the public at 6:30pm each evening. In addition to the movies, SummerScreen will feature live entertainment, interactive kiosks, and free giveaways and contests, with prizes including a JBL six-piece home theatre system given away at each event, a $1,000 stock portfolio from StockBack.com, $5,000 worth of free Flooz, the Online Gift CurrencyÆ, and a year of free flowers from Flower.com.Paul Bente, Brand Manager, JBL Consumer Products, noted, ""JBL is delighted to be a co-sponsor of this groundbreaking outdoor movie event. Our decades of expertise in supplying professional sound systems for movie theatres and outdoor concerts enables us to provide SummerScreen with an all-out, no-holds-barred loudspeaker system of truly awesome power and fidelity. We guarantee SummerScreen audiences will enjoy an unforgettable sonic experience, and we've designed our home-theatre systems to provide consumers with the same kind of sonic excitement in their own homes."" The multichannel surround sound system used on the Cinemax SummerScreen tour incorporates a number of advanced JBL loudspeaker technologies to achieve an unparalleled level of sonic realism. The loudspeakers include such refinements as patented diamond-surround titanium-dome tweeters with high-flux neodymium magnets for maximum high-frequency clarity, high-power cast-frame woofers, controlled dispersion enclosures for maximum sound coverage over a wider area, and many additional refinements.JBL has been the acknowledged leader in movie theatre loudspeakers since the introduction of the very first talking motion picture speakers in the 1920s. Cinemax has joined numerous film industry leaders in selecting JBL to provide the highest quality sound reproduction, and nearly 6 out of every 10 professional movie theatres worldwide use JBL loudspeakers. In addition, JBL studio monitors have long been the reference standard in recording studios worldwide, and the company's expertise in designing loudspeakers for the most demanding professional applications is also embodied in the design of every JBL home-theatre and stereo loudspeaker for consumer use.In conjunction with SummerScreen, Cinemax has also instituted a community service program called ""It's a Wrap."" Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket to the event to sit on while watching the movie, and then leave it behind as a donation for the homeless. All donations will benefit local charities.The dates and locations for the Cinemax SummerScreen festival are as follows:Water Mill, New York, ""The Castle"" - The Hamptons June 2-3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Art Museum Steps June 13-15 Phoenix, Arizona, Margaret T. Hance Park June 21-23 Los Angeles, California, Huntington Beach June 27-29 Denver, Colorado, Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre July 5-7 Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Fair Grounds July 11-13 San Antonio, Texas, Sunken Garden Theatre July 18-19 St. Louis, Missouri, Gateway Mall Plaza July 25-27 New Orleans, Louisiana, Marconi Meadows at City Park August 1-3 Miami, Florida, South Beach August 8-10The Harman Consumer Systems Group (HCSG) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of a wide range of high-fidelity loudspeakers, audio and video components and multimedia systems for use in homes and automobiles, and with computers. The group's brands include JBL, Infinity, Harman Kardon, Mark Levinson, Revel, Proceed and Audioaccess.HCSG is a division of Harman International Industries, Inc. Harman International (www.harman.com) is a leading manufacturer of high-quality, high-fidelity audio and video products for the consumer and professional markets. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ""HAR.""

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