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Microspace Completes Phase One of
Digital
Cinema
Pilot
Program
By Delivering Shrek 2 Via Satellite.
Pilot
to
continue throughout year, making digital cinema reality for
many
Raleigh, NC (May 25, 2004)
- Microspace Communications Corporation
(Microspace),
the
leading
provider
of
point-to-multipoint
satellite
services, announced today it has
successfully
delivered
Shrek
2
via satellite, completing the first phase
of
a
pilot
digital cinema program with DreamWorks LLC.
The
digital
film
was delivered using Microspace’s
VELOCITY® satellite
service.
“Microspace has been preparing for this over the past
two years by participating in many test and demo situations
with top entertainment industry companies and executives.
We have now moved from the lab to delivering the summer blockbuster
movie to a live theatre with paying customers,” says
Sam Matheny, manager of digital cinema development for Microspace. “We
are
proud
to be working with DreamWorks to make digital cinema a reality
and
allow the public to experience the benefits.”
Shrek 2 was distributed to Galaxy Cinemas in Waterloo, Ontario.
The next phase of the program will involve gradually increasing
the number of receive theatre sites.
“While the industry continues to perfect digital servers
and projectors, we are still hand-delivering electronic files
to theatres. Microspace’s satellite delivery is timely,
secure and seamless,” says Mark Christiansen, head
of operations for DreamWorks’ distribution.
Microspace has been taking a leading role
in
digital cinema initiatives by being the first to deliver
4K Standardized
Evaluation
Materials
(StEM) via satellite. It is one of the first satellite companies
to obtain membership in the International
Theatre
Equipment
Association (ITEA) and a sponsor of the Digital
Cinema
Laboratory’s research and testing initiatives
by
donating
a complete VELOCITY satellite network package. Microspace
is
also a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers
(SMPTE) and its DC28 committee,
a forum
to
address technologies, and develop and recommend standards
for digital
cinema.
Concluded Matheny, “With the successful
kick
off of the pilot, we are beginning to move from the test
phase of
digital
cinema
to the commercial phase with so much more to come.”
About Microspace
Microspace
Communications Corporation (Microspace) delivers video,
audio and data services across business networks at up
to 98 percent lower costs than such terrestrially-based
telecommunications carriers. Microspace is the leading
provider of point-to-multipoint satellite services and
operator of the largest business satellite broadcasting
network in the world. Its Ku-band VELOCITY® satellite
service enables reliable and affordable distribution of
a broad range of applications from business television
to streaming audio/video broadcasting to high-bandwidth
data transmission. Microspace offers its VELOCITY® satellite
service under an innovative fixed pricing model, allowing
a company to simply and affordably expand its bandwidth
as enterprise network applications demand it. Microspace’s
customers include companies such as Muzak, Morgan Stanley
and eSignal.
Founded in 1988, Microspace is a privately-held
company headquartered in Raleigh, NC, and a subsidiary of
Capitol Broadcasting Company, founded in 1937. For more information,
visit www.microspace.com.
About DreamWorks
Steven Spielberg,
Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen launched DreamWorks
SKG in October 1994. Their vision was to create an artist-friendly
studio to develop, produce and distribute superior film
and music entertainment that would inspire and delight
audiences worldwide. DreamWorks SKG is now a leading producer
of live-action motion pictures, animated feature films,
network, and cable television programming, home video and
DVD entertainment and consumer products.
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