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Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) is a consortium of major motion picture studios, formed to establish specifications for a common systems architecture for digital cinema systems. The organization was formed in March 2002 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [a] Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Studios, [b] Universal Studios, Walt Disney ...
In addition to the equipment already found in a film-based movie theatre (e.g., a sound reinforcement system, screen, etc.), a DCI-compliant digital cinema requires a DCI-compliant [32] digital projector and a powerful computer known as a server. Movies are supplied to the theatre as a set of digital files called a Digital Cinema Package (DCP ...
A Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is a collection of digital files used to store and convey digital cinema (DC) audio, image, and data streams. The term was popularized by Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC in its original recommendation [1] for packaging DC contents. However, the industry tends to apply the term to the structure more formally known ...
4K resolution refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels. [1] Digital television and digital cinematography commonly use several different 4K resolutions. In television and consumer media, 3840 × 2160 (4K UHD) with a 16:9 aspect ratio is the dominant 4K standard, whereas the movie projection industry uses 4096 × ...
DCI-P3 is a color space defined in 2005 as part of the Digital Cinema Initiative, for use in theatrical digital motion picture distribution [1] (DCDM [2]). Display P3 is a variant developed by Apple Inc. for wide-gamut displays.
The DCI Specification continues to be the core specification for digital cinema, establishing the baseline technology and system requirements for which studios will release digital movies. The first set of VPF agreements executed with four major studios were announced by Christie/AIX in November 2005. [4]
The digital cinema IMAX projection system, debuted in 2008, is designed for use with shorter 1.89:1 aspect ratio screens. The system uses two 2K projectors that can present either 2D or 3D content in DCI or IMAX Digital Format (IDF; which in itself is a superset of DCI).
2K resolution is a generic term for display devices or content having a horizontal resolution of approximately 2,000 pixels. [1] In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives is the dominant standard for 2K output and defines a 2K format with a resolution of 2048 × 1080. [2][3] For television and consumer media, the dominant ...