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Author Topic: DCP Equipment Package needed for Theatre Svjetlana Oppen Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Windsor Ontario Canada Registered: Aug 2016 posted 02-14-2017 01:01 PM                     Hi all, I am rather new here, but I do need your help. I am looking to price out complete package for our theatre. We are local festival here in Canada and we are deciding on owning instead renting. The screen size is 30' x 15' and theatre seats 560, also the projector sits 70' from the screen. Besides the projector, we use 2 servers so we can load alternative days during the festival (around 8-10 features a day), without interrupting screenings (they run all day). We also use switchers (we used Gefen) for alternative content. Any recommendations about best brand for the price or anything to look out for would be appreciated. Thank you!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-14-2017 03:55 PM                     Contact Gord McLeod in Toronto.  |  IP: Logged Allan Barnes Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: GRAND BEND, ONTARIO, CANADA Registered: Mar 2009 posted 02-14-2017 10:11 PM                        I recommend ProjecTech and National Leasing. OK to use my name, as for PA. Gordon McCloud is GREAT  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 02-14-2017 10:42 PM                        The Projectech folks do my work too.  |  IP: Logged Svjetlana Oppen Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Windsor Ontario Canada Registered: Aug 2016 posted 02-15-2017 12:31 PM                     Thank you all for the suggestions. I'll follow up on these.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-15-2017 12:56 PM                        Be aware that if you buy this stuff and use it once a year, you may have a problem. D-cinema equipment was designed for cinemas that are open every day. If you let it sit for months without power (or even in standby mode), some of the crypto hardware will fail and need to be replaced. I know of one college that learned this lesson expensively. You will want to find a way to power up the projector and server for a bit at least once every month or two in order to avoid this.  |  IP: Logged Svjetlana Oppen Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Windsor Ontario Canada Registered: Aug 2016 posted 02-15-2017 12:59 PM                     Thanks Scott! Information worth knowing. We are planning to do screenings more then once a year if we purchase the equipment, and I will keep this in mind for sure.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-17-2017 05:49 PM                     I expect Pierre Charron from Projectech will be in touch with you if you don't call him. This is a well watched forum. You could own one full projection package to do your festival and non-festival screenings, and rent a second server during the festival for your plan to load alternate days. If you get an identical server, you may be able to just swap out the RAID drive set rather than swap complete servers. There are other options to handle many films - ie a server with larger storage capacity or using an external computer for content storage and moving shows into the server via network - considerably faster than ingesting directly from distribution media. Having two servers and a second projector during the festival allows test screening your films while the main projector is in use - prescreening is usually a requirement at festivals to check subtitles etc. There are a lot of projector options but once the lamp power required is known (basically this is proportional to screen size) the choices will be narrowed down considerably, each D-Cinema projector brand has models to suit normal screen sizes.  |  IP: Logged Svjetlana Oppen Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Windsor Ontario Canada Registered: Aug 2016 posted 03-10-2017 01:33 PM                     Thank you all for this valuable input! I am in touch with ProjecTech now, and hope we can work something out.  |  IP: Logged Ben Schulz Film Handler Posts: 12 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Jan 2017 posted 03-16-2017 07:07 PM                     Kramer do some really nice Cinema Scalers and other alternative gear for Cinema.  |  IP: Logged Allan Barnes Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: GRAND BEND, ONTARIO, CANADA Registered: Mar 2009 posted 03-19-2017 08:57 PM                        How did the equipment work out for you? I'm close(ish) 2 hours away in Grand Bend  |  IP: Logged

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