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Author Topic: how many DLP screens? Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-08-2003 06:49 AM                        Does anyone have an "official" number for current DLP installations in commercial theatres, either in the US or worldwide? There are listings at http://www.dlp.com/ but they seem to include some theatres that aren't built yet, along with screening rooms, etc. I'm not interested in counting screens which use as a high-tech (and expensive) replacement for slides or that low-end Windows Media-based thing that Landmark announced this year. Only theatres which use the system for presenting feature films should count. Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Bevan Wright Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Fountain Valley, CA, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-08-2003 08:37 AM                        The definitive website on the current installed base of Dcinema and Ecinema projectors/servers is - http://www.dcinematoday.com (fixed link) [ 10-09-2003, 12:43 AM: Message edited by: Daryl C. W. O'Shea ]  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-08-2003 10:43 AM                        One is too many.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-08-2003 10:43 AM                        One is too many. Sorry, don't know how this duplicated.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-08-2003 11:03 AM                     1000 new digital screens by the end of 2004 and 17,000 by 2008 based on industry research projections........  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-08-2003 11:20 AM                        Are they the same industry researchers that predicted that there would be more DLPs in theatres than film projectors by 1999? And that film would virtually be eliminated by 2002? Those guys? Frank  |  IP: Logged Mike Carro Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Tempe, Az USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-09-2003 12:08 AM                        Bevan, that website came up empty? Wouldn't load or something. You sure it's right?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 10-09-2003 12:41 AM                        http://www.dcinematoday.com/default.aspx  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 10-09-2003 03:10 AM                        We have 6 (Barco D-Cinema Premiere DP50).  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-09-2003 03:41 AM                     The dcinematoday site seems to be somewhat out of date; it does not list NFT3 in London, nor Picture House York. York is very recent, but I think the NFT one has been in for a few months now. These are just two that I happen to know about, but it suggests thst the total number will be somewhat greater than this site suggests.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-09-2003 08:26 AM                        Who runs the DCinemaToday.com website? Who is WHMCC (WHM Cinema Consulting)? It's a very sophisticated site, and someone has invested quite a bit in it.  |  IP: Logged Dwight Lindsey Film Handler Posts: 34 From: Hauppauge, NY, USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 10-09-2003 08:45 AM                        That's Bill Mead, formerly of Sony and Dolby. It's a great web site. Dwight  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-09-2003 09:25 AM                        I assume this is a new venture for Bill, after his stint at Entertainment Technology Consultants?  |  IP: Logged Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 10-09-2003 05:14 PM                        My company was interested to buy a digital cinema projector for his new multiplex, but the price was too expensive, and the digital projection head was not upgradable to the next DLP chip size. But we add a second port window in all booth to be ready for the digital projection when it will be a standard.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-09-2003 05:27 PM                     I saw the new 2K DP100 BARCO digital projector a few weeks ago demostrated on a 19 meter screen at a Kinopolis multiplex in Belgium and it was impressive......later that evening I viewed a 35mm presentation in the same cinema and I was getting seasick from the jumpy image BARCO demostrated this projector in their booth at the recent ShowEast tradeshow. Presentation standards from the studios....possibly a 4K master to a 2K/1.2K cinema presentation......should start the increase of digital screens.  |  IP: Logged

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