Digital Cinema
Dolby presents a comprehensive, reliable digital cinema solution, designed and built specifically for today's cinemas. Dolby provides mastering and encoding systems for motion picture studios, as well as playback equipment for cinemas.
The Dolby® Digital Cinema system offers superb picture quality, simplified operation, and outstanding reliability, plus the highest level of security in the business. To make sure your transition to digital runs smoothly, our system meets Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) recommendations and easily integrates with your existing automation and sound systems.
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Dolby Show Player
This is the nucleus of the system, containing a precision image decoder designed specifically for high-accuracy display on the cinema screen. Image quality is superb, and the custom design supports double the data rate of other image decoders. It is modular and reprogrammable, giving plenty of flexibility to adapt in the future. The Dolby Show Player also provides clear, intuitive controls for your projectionists via easy-to-use front-panel keys and a built-in TFT display.
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Dolby Show Store
Dolby Show Store houses your digital content for playback through Dolby Show Player. Its capacity is three full feature films, at a minimum. It uses a RAID 5 hard disk array for increased reliability: playback continues even if a drive fails. The drives are user-serviceable and hot-swappable. Dolby Show Store also includes a removable hard disk drive, a DVD-ROM drive, and a USB 2.0 port for content delivery. Internal GPI/O plus serial and Ethernet ports provide easy interface with cinema automation systems.
Extensive and effective mains filtering: for resiliency against spikes and other electrical problems
Dual hot-swappable power supplies: allows a failed one to be unplugged and replaced without affecting operation
Rapid system restart: gets the show back on screen quickly after a building power outage
Dolby Theatre Management Software
This software simplifies and streamlines digital screen operations for any size cinema or multiplex. It gives theatre personnel complete, central control over all presentations, allowing the user to ingest content, build shows, and set schedules. The software comes in two versions that differ only in the number of networked digital screens they can control and the hardware they require. Features and functionality are otherwise identical.
Dolby Screen Manager software is included with each Dolby Digital Cinema system (Dolby Show Store and Dolby Show Player) and can network up to three screens.
Dolby Theatre Manager software can manage all digital screens in a multiplex of any size. It is included with the Dolby Show Library and comes with a license for three networked screens. Licenses for additional screens (or a site license) can be purchased.
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Dolby Show Library
A high-capacity central server designed to facilitate the networking of a multiplex and meet its content storage needs, Dolby Show Library acts as the heart of the network, giving users the ability to load all content at one central location via Ethernet, satellite, removable hard drive, USB 2.0, or DVD. The unit then distributes files electronically to networked Dolby Digital Cinema systems within the multiplex.
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CP650DC Digital Cinema Processor
Designed specifically for use in digital cinemas, the CP650DC retains all the features of the CP650, minus support for 35 mm film. It adds out-of-the-box support for PCM, Dolby Digital, and Surround EX™ bitstreams and will connect to any brand of server.
Download the CP650DC specification sheet 
Installation Options
DMA8Plus Digital Media Adapter
The DMA8Plus is used in some installations to interface the digital cinema presentation to your cinema's existing sound processor. It decodes digital audio and ensures that sound and picture are synchronized during playback.
Download the DMA8Plus specification sheet
NA10 Network Automation Interface
This provides an easy interface to any existing automation system to allow the Dolby Digital Cinema system to control lights, curtains, masking, and audio format changes.
Download the NA10 specification sheet
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