Kinoton Installs XL Digital 3D Cinema Systems
January 11, 2010
Source: Kinoton
The Cineplex Marburg
and the Cinedom Koeln multiplexes are the first German cinemas
that offer their audience large scale digital 3D Cinema. In
the run-up for the theatrical release of “Avatar”,
both cinemas have been equipped with Kinoton 3D2P systems,
each operating with two DCP Digital Cinema Projectors that
bring brilliant 3D pictures even to large screens.
The first Dual 3D installation had taken
place in the Cineplex theatre, a modern sevenscreen multiplex
in the city of Marburg. The Kinoton 3D2P system features two
coupled DCP 30 L D-Cinema projectors with 6500 Watt Xenon
bulbs and integrated Dolby 3D color filter wheels provide
stereoscopic cinema with an image size of impressive 17 x
7 meters (51 x 21ft.). A Dolby 3D server provides the projectors
with content.
Cineplex CEO Gerhard Closmann had already
made a positive experience when he had the first Kinoton /
Dolby 3D cinema system installed in another auditorium four
months ago, in the forefront of the “Ice Age 3”
release.
Now he is very pleased with the performance of the new dual
installation as well. He complements Kinoton on the fine picture
quality and is very happy about the enthusiasm shown by the
audience. When asked why he had decided in favor of the Dolby
3D system, he answered: “Because for me a silver screen
was completely out of question, especially with so large a
screen. After all, we’ll keep on exhibiting 2D movies
as well, both in digital and 35mm, and I set a high value
on uniform image illumination.”
The Dolby 3D system works perfectly well with normal cinema
screens, and the dual version with two extra-bright D-Cinema
projectors guarantees brilliant high-contrast 3D pictures
even in an XL format.
A second Dual 3D installation featuring
the same equipment offers a great three-dimensional cinema
experience at the largest auditorium of the Cinedom Koeln,
a renowned 14-screen multiplex in Cologne. Here the dimension
of the screen is imposing 22 x 10 meters (66 x 30 ft.) –
that’s more than 4 times the screen size of the other
3D auditorium at the Cinedom, the BlackBox, which Kinoton
had equipped with an XPanD 3D system featuring shutter glasses
in 2007. The audience was very enthusiastic on the image quality
and 3D effect at the large screen and spontaneously broke
into applause when the first pictures of "Avatar"
were shown.
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