Village Cinemas International To Install Dolby Digital

Village Cinemas International (VCI) has confirmed its long-term plans to use the Dolby Digital format throughout their circuit, totaling over a thousand new screens over the next four years.""We have been using the Dolby CP500-D unit as our standard platform for quite some time now,"" says Huw Rhys-Lewis, VCI's Director of Global Purchasing. ""It has proved to be solidly reliable, as well as very user-friendly. The Dolby Digital format is also dominant in terms of print availability, so the decision to standardize was that much easier.""The new construction is part of VCI's exciting development of new multiplex cinemas throughout the world, in countries as widespread as Argentina, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. Currently, Village Cinemas International operates 1300 screens in 20 countries.""We are very pleased with this decision and proud to be so closely associated with a market leader in innovative multiplex design,"" says Peter Seagger, Dolby's International Sales Director. ""We are also very encouraged by VCI's intention to include our latest technology, Dolby Digital Surround EX, in all their strategic locations.""