BARCO Receives First-Ever Order For DLP Cinemaô Projector In Post Production

Renowned Film Lab Eclair Uses D-CineStar To Do Editing And Mastering Of Digital Movies

2-Feb-01

BARCO, world leading developer and manufacturer of large screen video and graphics display technology, has announced it has sold the first-ever digital cinema projection system featuring DLP Cinemaô technology for use in post production to Eclair Laboratories in Paris. Committed to use the most advanced technologies, the management of this renowned French post production house has selected BARCO to deliver high performance display technology for the editing and mastering of digital movies. BARCO has delivered and installed its recently introduced D-CineStar digital cinema projector, which combines Texas Instruments DLP Cinema technology, along with Kinotonís projector console and BARCOís expertise in electronics, optics and mechanics to deliver high contrast images to cinema screens.Eclair Laboratories is recognized worldwide as one of the largest and the best 35mm post production houses. Recently, the company has changed to focus not only on the post production of 35mm film, but also on the post production of digital movies, using the most advanced technologies, such as the Philips Spirit DataCine, Philips Spector and Megades from Pandora. In order to do editing, color grading and mastering of digital movies, Eclair decided to install the BARCO D-CineStar digital cinema projector.""During the last months, we have been doing very successful digital cinema trials all over the world,"" said Sjoerd De Clerck, Managing Director, BARCO Digital Cinema. ""We are delighted by this first sale to one of the world's leading post production houses - a major breakthrough for our BARCO D-CineStar digital cinema projector.""BARCOís recently announced D-CineStar digital cinema projector combines Texas Instrumentsí DLP Cinema technology with Kinotonís projector console and BARCOís expertise in electronics, optics and mechanics. This projection system delivers high contrast (>1000:1) images with a light output of 12 ft. Lamberts. The dedicated fully digital 24 frames-per-second signal input guarantees natural film-like motion. The end result on the screen is bright, stable, uniform images without jump, weave, flicker or ghosting.""As we decided to focus also on digital editing and mastering, we invested in the latest technology,"" said Olivier Chiavassa at Eclair. ""Some weeks ago, we did the mastering of the first European digital movie ëThe Crimson Riversí (Mathieu Kassovitz) using a BARCO D-CineStar as a reference. We were amazed by the high resolution and brightness of the BARCO digital cinema projector. Therefore, we have decided to install the unit not only for digital cinema mastering, but also as a reference screen for digital editing and color grading.""BARCOís D-CineStar features Texas Instruments DLP Cinema technology. This technology is a further development of TIís Digital Light Processingô technology that BARCO is already using in its large venue projectors for the rental and staging market. By comparison with these large venue projectors based on DLPô technology, DLP Cinema technology features even higher contrast, together with color processing designed to replicate the visual experience of film. At the heart of TI's Digital Light Processing technology is the Digital Micromirror Deviceô optical semiconductor chip that has an array of 1,310,000 hinged, microscopic mirrors which operate as optical switches to create a high resolution, full color image. TI has developed DLP Cinema technology working in close co-operation with key players in the movie industry, and will work closely with BARCO to develop commercial products based on this technology, which meet the requirement of studios, film distributors and exhibitors alike.To date, over 1,000,000 people are estimated to have witnessed Digital Cinema trials, using prototype projectors featuring DLP Cinema technology, in well over 5,000 showings in the U.S.A., the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Canada and Mexico. Since its introduction, the BARCO D-CineStar has been used for major digital cinema trials in Europe, including France, Sweden, Spain and Belgium, in addition to screenings in the U.S.A., Korea and India. For more information, visit www.barco.com.

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