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An
Overview:
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After carefully studying market realities, UNITED FILM ORGANIZERS has created
an end to end Digital Cinema Solution which is set to revolutionize the
distribution and exhibition system.
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Digital Cinema encompasses the production, delivery and projection of
full-length motion pictures, trailors, advertisements and other audio / visual
programs to theatres using digital technology. In Digital Cinema a film
delivered to theatres through physical media such as hard disks or through
other electronic transmission methods such as satellite.
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UFO has launched an MPEG-4 technology based Digital Cinema System which
provides greater flexibility, efficiency and cost savings over any other
Digital Cinema solution available in the Indian market.
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The UFO system also supports encoding and
playback of 6 channel (5.1 Surround Sound) high-fidelity audio content,
which is the current industry format for surround sound audio used
by Hollywood and Indian moviemakers. It uses the latest MPEG-4
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) technology to provide better aural
experience than ever possible earlier by using the legacy Dolby
Digital or DTS technologies.
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The reduced file sizes of the digital movies
due to MPEG-4 technology on the UFO's system allows reliable
delivery of the digital movie over the UFO's hybrid multi-media
delivery mechanism in the shortest time possible, thereby reducing
the cost of delivery.
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The
theater-server in the UFO system can store more
number of digital movies than ever possible, thereby allowing the
flexibility of choice to the theater-owners to play different
movies at different times or days on their screens, just like
multiplexes, to substantially increase their revenue.
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For day-to-day operations, the UFO
theater-server allows segregated use of the system to the
theater-managers and operators to do what they do best, i.e.
schedule and playback movies. A simplified interface allows the
theater-manager to assign operators, and implement a two-week
advance schedule for playback of the downloaded digital movies by
these operators.
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The two-week advance schedule in the
theater-server allows for allocation of a different movie for each
show of each day of each week. The theater-manager also transacts
with the billing server at the UFO NOC by just providing a valid
transaction-id for the payment made earlier to UFO, to acquire
credits required for playback of individual shows
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Before assigning a schedule to the downloaded
digital movie, the theater-manager can also verify the content by
conducting a preview show of that movie. The preview show is a
full-fledged exhibition; except for an additional overlay of
semi-transparent fingerprint information covering the complete
screen which though allowing the content to be verified renders it
useless for all-purposes of exhibition or copying. And, the
operator is left with only the simple task of operating the
playback of the pre-scheduled shows.
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The UFO theater-server also monitors system
health and displays critical information in a simplified form on
the system's screen. All actions by the system and users,
including systems engineers, theater-managers and operators, are
logged by the theater-server and transferred to the UFO NOC for
regular audits.
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Thus, UFO has leveraged the inherent advantages of its system to truly deliver
a flexible, efficient, versatile and cost-effective tailor-made Digital Cinema
system to the Indian market.
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