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Live Wii ads to hit UK cinemas

News It is the first time live adverts of this kind have been tried in cinemas, reports Creative Match. The ads will take place in Picturehouse cinemas this weekend and next -- timed to coincide with the opening of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's...

30 May 2007, 10:02 > More matches in News

DLP delights: budget projectors for home cinemas

Reviews Projectors -- once the pursuit of the rich, now available for just over £1,000. If you've ever harboured a desire to turn your living room into a full-blown cinema, start by getting a projector. Texas Instruments' DLP chipset, which acts as the...

19 July 2005, 14:56 > More matches in Reviews

Slow start forecast for digital cinema

News After years of haggling, Hollywood studios have settled on a technical standard for replacing the whirring film projectors in cinemas with high-tech digital projection systems. Negotiations are under way with cinemas and funding agencies on ways to...

28 July 2005, 11:10 > More matches in News

Morgan Freeman: Internet will spur movie creativity

News The Academy Award-winning actor said services that will deliver first-run movies over the Internet to people's homes while the movies remain in cinemas are "absolutely" analogous to what happened in the PC business when consumers began to buy...

9 January 2006, 8:47 > More matches in News

James Bond at the mercy of pirates

News Complaints from Sony Pictures or the cinemas, however, will be tempered by news the film still managed to gross £13.4m over the opening weekend in the UK, making it the third most successful opening weekend of all time at the UK box office.

23 November 2006, 11:32 > More matches in News

Intel and Apple could together woo Hollywood

News As a result, many video-on-demand companies, such as Akimbo, don't deliver films that were recently shown in cinemas; instead, they offer fishing shows and cable cast-offs. Later this year, Revelations Entertainment, started by Freeman and run by...

6 June 2005, 11:00 > More matches in News

'Chicken Little' gives glimpse of digital 3D

News The bigger step may be Disney's success in persuading 85 cinemas around the country to install expensive new digital projectors, along with the 3D capability to show Chicken Little. This may be easier for cinemas to use, since it doesn't require...

7 November 2005, 10:19 > More matches in News

Soderbergh shakes up DVD release thinking

News Movies have long been released in 'windows' -- first to cinemas, then to home video, and from there to TV, pay-per-view, video-on-demand, hotels, airlines and so on. Movies are now routinely available online even before their premiere, and are...

13 January 2006, 10:54 > More matches in News

Music industry seeks Hollywood's release timing

News Releasing content in tightly controlled windows -- first in cinemas, later to home video, and finally to TV, for example -- has been hugely profitable for movie studios over the years. These windows have shrunk substantially as DVD releases have...

10 August 2005, 10:22 > More matches in News

TI shows off its movie projector in a phone

News TI is also working with cinemas to install DLP projectors for showing films. In North America, approximately 2,000 cinemas have installed DLP projectors. By the end of the year, approximately 5,000 cinemas will be using the projectors, said John...

27 March 2007, 10:52 > More matches in News

HP to launch pirate-fighting projector

News Hewlett-Packard is developing a projection technology designed to foil camcorder-outfitted pirates in cinemas, according to a board member. Tom Perkins, a legendary venture capitalist and partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, alluded to the...

25 August 2005, 9:42 > More matches in News

News.blog: Digital film distribution in the limelight

News A conglomeration of movie studios and cinema owners has formed a venture to examine the best ways to transfer digital content to cinemas. For decades, studios have shipped film prints by to cinemas by truck.

Tags: distribution, film, cinema, cinemas

7 March 2007, 10:11 > More matches in News

Movies Showtimes Singapore

Downloads Displays movies' showtimes information for cinemas in Singapore. It also provides convenient links to movie information on the Yahoo Movies Singapore Web site.

28 March 2007, 13:43 > More matches in Downloads

DTS (Digital Theatre Sound)

Reviews A digital surround-sound format used in both home audio and in cinemas. This 5.1 format is not as common as AC-3 (Dolby Digital), but some adherents claim it offers better sound quality.

21 December 2006, 9:00 > More matches in Reviews

US charges man in camcorder-piracy crackdown

News A Missouri man is the first to be indicted under a new federal law that prohibits people from secretly videotaping movies when they are shown in cinemas, the US Justice Department said on Thursday. Camcorder piracy accounts for over 90 per cent of...

8 August 2005, 10:08 > More matches in News