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Digital Cinema Solution

Designed by Dolby specifically for the cinema, Dolby® Digital Cinema is a complete, reliable, and flexible solution that combines ease of operation with an unmatched customer experience.

Offers superb picture and sound quality

Integrates easily with existing automation and sound systems

Ensures flexibility to meet your changing needs and protect your investment for years to come

Includes everything you need to efficiently manage and present your features

Meets key Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specifications

Engineered from the ground up for real-world projection booths, Dolby Digital Cinema is a comprehensive, powerful, and reliable digital cinema solution.

At its core is the Dolby® Screen Server (DSS200). This all-in-one platform provides everything you need to load, store, decode, and deliver pristine digital movies to your digital cinema projector.

Our easy-to-use Dolby Theatre Management System (TMS) software gives you complete operational control, and lets you perform advanced scheduling either locally or remotely.

Dolby Digital Cinema integrates easily with your existing automation and sound systems, delivering superb picture quality and stunning sound. And Dolby Digital Cinema meets key DCI specifications while providing simplified operation, outstanding reliability, and the highest level of security in the business. The system is the first digital server to achieve Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Level 3 certification, ensuring the highest level of antipiracy protection as specified by DCI.

The Dolby Digital Cinema Solution

The Dolby Digital Cinema solution includes simple and intuitive controls for your projectionists, powerful scheduling capabilities for your managers, and reliability for your technicians. Because the system is modular, you can install the Dolby Show Player where it is most convenient to operate.

The Dolby Digital Cinema solution supports the JPEG 2000 playback format, as specified by DCI, and also supports MPEG-2, ensuring compatibility with alternative content such as preshow advertising. The system also meets DCI specifications for security, data rate, and storage capacity, and can easily accommodate evolving standards.

Dolby® Screen Server (DSS200)

The Dolby® Screen Server (DSS200) is an all-in-one platform to store, decode, and deliver pristine movies to your digital projector. It offers outstanding performance and easy serviceability. Integrated Dolby Theatre Management System (TMS) software provides a complete, easy-to-use interface for managing shows locally or remotely.

Learn more about the Dolby® Screen Server (DSS200).

Dolby Theatre Management System Software

Built to streamline and simplify digital screen operations, Dolby TMS software gives theatre personnel and network operations centers (NOCs) complete control over all presentations—for a single screen, a large multiplex, or a system integrator’s entire network. Designed for operational simplicity, Dolby TMS software lets you ingest and move content, even while playing, and includes drag-and-drop show assembly, at-a-glance monitoring, and fully automatic show operation.

Download the Dolby Theatre Management System software specifications .

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.

Learn more about the Dolby Show Library (DSL100).

Dolby 3D Digital Cinema

Dolby 3D Digital Cinema is the most compelling 3D offering available. Not only is it the most cost-effective as well as easy to install and simple to operate—with Dolby’s reusable 3D glasses, it is also environmentally sound. With Dolby 3D, no costly silver screen is required, so you can easily switch between 2D and 3D—there’s no need for a dedicated 3D auditorium, and no contrast compromise for 2D movies.

Learn more about Dolby 3D Digital Cinema.

Dolby CP750 Digital Cinema Processor

Combining high performance with practical functionality and legendary Dolby quality, the CP750 accommodates eight digital audio channels from any cinema server, three sources of preshow and alternative content, and an existing film sound processor.

Learn more about the Dolby CP750 Digital Cinema Processor.

Dolby DMA8Plus Digital Media Adapter

Designed for hybrid installations to interface the digital cinema presentation with your cinema’s existing sound processor, the DMA8Plus decodes digital audio, and ensures that the sound and picture are synchronized during playback.

Learn more about the Dolby DMA8Plus Digital Media Adapter.

Dolby NA10 Network Automation Interface

Providing an easy interface to any existing automation system, the NA10 allows the Dolby Digital Cinema system to control lights, curtains, masking, and audio format changes.

Learn more about the Dolby NA10 Network Automation Interface.


 
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