I don't know what kind of classes you're referring to, because there are so many. IPC classes... Shielding classes... Laser classes... It's by all means light-years away from being "carrier grade", for that it would need to achieve "five-nines" of availability: 99.999%
A cinema projector is obviously targeted at "heavy use", unlike a consumer product. That doesn't mean it doesn't share components that would otherwise be used in a consumer product.
I think the biggest issue of Digital Cinema hardware is the DCI security compliance overhead. Otherwise, we could use "industry standard" equipment that would fit the norm in terms of brightness, color spectrum, etc. It doesn't help that many of those security components are built to intentionally fail. It's like building a nuclear plant with a positive void coefficient, it's bound to go boom sooner or later, it's Murphy's law.
A cinema projector is obviously targeted at "heavy use", unlike a consumer product. That doesn't mean it doesn't share components that would otherwise be used in a consumer product.
I think the biggest issue of Digital Cinema hardware is the DCI security compliance overhead. Otherwise, we could use "industry standard" equipment that would fit the norm in terms of brightness, color spectrum, etc. It doesn't help that many of those security components are built to intentionally fail. It's like building a nuclear plant with a positive void coefficient, it's bound to go boom sooner or later, it's Murphy's law.
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