Christie passes d-cinema milestone on Continent

Christie now has twice as many 2K digital cinema projectors installed than any other manufacturer. The company’s growth in European d-cinema started in 2005, when its CP series of 2K DLP projectors were chosen by XDC. This was the first pan-European d-cinema roll-out developed for the distribution and projection of digital movies, alternative content and other related services.

The project involved more than one hundred installations within a year, with deployments in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Portugal and Poland.

In November 2007, French cinema chain CGR Cinemas chose the CP Series projectors as part of an exclusive Virtual Print Fee based agreement with Arts Alliance Media, for the deployment of d-cinema across its 400 screens. In July 2008, Austrian cinema chain Cineplexx chose Christie for the deployment of d-cinema systems across its 193 screens.

Finnish cinema chain Finnkino Oy invested in 10 CP2000 projectors at the end of 2008, and in March 2009, Christie was chosen to equip 68 screens in an agreement between the Amsterdam Booking Company, a buying group representing Dutch independent cinemas, and Arts Alliance Media. A month later, Spanish cinema chain Yelmo Cines announced it had just finished digitising five screens in its most modern multiplex.