Dolby Announces First Dolby Digital Cinema Installations In France

24-Jun-05

Dolby Laboratories announced the launch of its Dolby Digital Cinema system in France at the Gaumont Champs-Elysees Marignan cinema in Paris, part of the EuroPalaces group. The first installation was deployed for the release of Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith. Following the successful reaction to the first system, the EuroPalaces group, France's largest exhibitor, decided to bring forward the installation of its second system in the Gaumont cinema in time for the opening of Sin City.  Dolby Digital Cinema is a digital cinema solution that provides cinemas with the technology to store and decode digital files and then deliver pristine digital movies to the big screen. Over the past month, Dolby engineers have worked closely with engineering teams at the Gaumont Champs-Elysees and Cinemeccanica to ensure that the installations of Dolby Digital Cinema and Cinemeccanica DLP Cinemaô projectors went smoothly. ""We are delighted that the Gaumont Champs-Elysees Marignan cinema is already seeing immediate value from the installation of our digital cinema solution,"" said Jason Power, Market Development Manager, Dolby Laboratories. ""Both exhibitors and audiences alike will benefit from our innovative system, which enables a high-quality digital cinema presentation."" Dolby Digital Cinema provides all the elements for digital movie playback and show management: storing, decrypting, decoding, scheduling, and interfacing to existing cinema systems, while delivering the quality, reliability, security, and flexibility necessary for digital cinema. The system has been built to industry standards as specified by the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI), a joint venture of the major studios formed to establish industry specifications for digital cinema solutions.

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