For several years now, the Indian media & entertainment industry has been talking about the emergence of digital cinema in India. But Ranjit Thakur, CEO of Scrabble Entertainment, says his company is the sole digital cinema provider in India.

He tells FE's Pritha Mitra Dasgupta that all other companies have been using electronic cinema and passing it off as digital.

The UK government will not bail out cinemas left behind in the switch to digital cinema, Stewart Till, chairman of the UK Film Council has warned.

Palme D'Or winner "Entre les murs" (The Class), a Laurent Cantet film released in France on September 24th, was the first film in Europe to be exclusively delivered to digital cinemas via an electronic network, thanks to SmartJog and cinego.net.

Europa Cinemas will examine the potential threat posed to cinemas across Europe by digital switchover at its 13th annual conference in Paris in November 2008.

Latin America is slowly waking up to digital cinema. While still far behind the U.S., Europe and Asia, the number of DCI-grade digital systems south of the border has tripled in the past year-from around 15 systems in the fall of 2007 to approximately 50 expected by the end of 2008.

Adlabs Films Limited, a member of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has crossed the milestone of over 10,000 successful shows in the true 2K Digital Cinema format.

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The patent was filed in 2001 and covers the concept and technology of audio-visual playout devices that are installed at different places and media is downloaded from a central server and scheduled for playout.

Abridged version of the report made by Daniel Goudineau "Farewell To Film? What is at stake in Digital Projection?

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