ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA PURCHASES DOREMI
CINEMA'S DCP-2000 DIGITAL CINEMA SERVERS
LONDON, 23 January 2007 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading provider of digital film distribution services, has announced that it is to purchase up to 240 units of the DCP-2000 digital cinema server from Doremi Cinema for installation in the UK Film Council’s Digital Screen Network.
The Digital Screen Network (DSN) is the world’s first 2k digital cinema network, and is currently being rolled out across the UK by Arts Alliance Media. AAM won the contract to install and operate the network in February 2005, and is due to complete installations by late Spring this year.
The DCP-2000 will be installed in all new sites and will also be used to replace the existing servers within the DSN. The new Doremi servers will provide cinemas in the DSN with the latest security and content loading technology.
Fiona Deans, Arts Alliance Media’s Director of Digital Cinema, said “We are delighted to be able to install the Doremi server in cinemas, and believe it underscores the advantage to cinemas of working with a third party integrator who is committed to evolving with the market and providing the best possible technology solutions.”
Michael Archer, Vice President of Sales, Doremi Cinema, added “Doremi has continued to add feature sets and additional security elements within our server. We are very pleased that Arts Alliance has chosen to use Doremi in the leading Digital Cinema rollout in Europe.”
The Doremi DCP-2000 server is the world’s most widely used JPEG2000 digital cinema server that conforms to the standards outlined in the current DCI specifications. Features of the server include MPEG2 MXF playback, 3D playback, CineLink II encryption, and forensic watermarking.
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For further information, please contact
Kate Pidgeon, Arts Alliance Media
kate@artsalliancemedia.com / +44 207 751 7512
Ramzi Shakra, Doremi Cinema
ramzi@doremilabs.com / +1 818 562-1101
Notes to Editors
About Arts Alliance Media:
Arts Alliance Media (AAM), based in London, is Europe's leading provider of digital film distribution services, dedicated to building a European digital network to deliver film to the cinema, to the home and between industry players.
AAM provides end-to-end digital cinema solutions encompassing equipment selection, financing and integration, operator training, installation and support, and content management and delivery.
In February 2005, Arts Alliance Digital Cinema won the UK Film Council contract to install and operate 240 digital screens, the world’s first 2k digital cinema network. More information can be found at www.ukdsn.com. To date, since October 2005, 136 screens have been installed and 79 titles have been played on AAM’s UK network. In April 2006, AAM expanded its digital cinema network into Europe, beginning with a 10-screen trial rollout in Norway.
For Download-to-Rent and Download-to-Own, AAM provides ISPs, media companies and e-tailers with turn key solutions for acquiring rights and securely distributing digital video content over the internet to their audiences. Arts Alliance Media currently carries content from Universal Pictures, Sony, Warner Bros., Momentum, Icon, Tartan and Discovery Networks, amongst others.
AAM owned LOVEFiLM, Europe's largest online DVD rental company, until the LOVEFiLM/Video Island merger in April 2006. AAM remains the largest single shareholder of LOVEFiLM International, the merged company, and provides the technology and content for digital distribution.
For more information, visit: www.artsalliancemedia.com
About Doremi Cinema
The Doremi Cinema DCP-2000 was the first commercially available server capable of playing DCI conforming JPEG2000 digital movies at up to 250Mbs. Doremi continues to add advanced features to keep it comfortably ahead of the competition. Some of these features include 4K and 3D playback, CineLink II strong link encryption, Thomson’s NexGuard and Philips’ CineFence Forensic Watermarking making the DCP-2000 the most secure server on the market.
The DCP-2000 features 800GBytes of RAID-5 storage in a 3RU chassis with redundant power supplies, and includes the CineLister software for easy movie clip and play list administration. The DCP-2000 is currently the most installed JPEG2000 server with over 2000 installations worldwide.
About Doremi Cinema LLC.
Doremi Cinema LLC. is a division of Doremi Labs, Inc. Doremi Labs is a leading developer and manufacturer of video disk recorders (VDR) and video servers for the professional video and broadcast markets for over 12 years. Doremi's V1 family of VDRs is a market leader with several thousand installations worldwide. Over the last three years Doremi has expended its product line outside the video server market. New products include the ORCA real-time HD MPEG2 video encoder, and the Nugget MPEG2 HD video player. The Nugget development technology together with the ORCA encoder and the JPEG2000 based V1-HD video server set in motion Doremi's entry into the Digital Cinema market and the establishment of Doremi Cinema LLC. in 2005. Today Doremi Cinema provides complete mastering and playback solutions for both the DCI-JPEG2000 standard and MXF Interop.
For more information, visit www.doremicinema.com