System Solutions wins cinema contract
Published: MEA
MAURITIUS: System Solutions has been awarded a US$400,000 contract by Cineco Ltd to supply digital cinema equipment, control and content management systems for a new cinema complex at the Bagatelle Mall in Moka on the Island of Mauritius.
The complex will include six fully digital cinema theatres with curved screens and 3D capability - the largest of which will feature an 18m wide screen. The project fulfils two of System Solution’s long term strategic objectives; on the one hand penetrating the Indian Ocean Island territories, and on the other, moving into the very specialised cinema market.
‘The audio component alone comes to around six tonnes of equipment and includes highly specialised cinema loudspeakers, amplifiers, digital signal processors and monitoring systems from QSC,’ said System Solutions’ general manager, Roger Feldmann. ‘There are Dolby CP750 Digital Cinema Sound Processors being installed in four of the six cinema theatres and Dolby CP 650 processors, in the remaining two. These are the only all-digital cinema processors capable of playing back both digital and analogue Dolby soundtrack formats.’
The cinema complex will be equipped with a content delivery and management system from Doremi. This consists of the manufacturer’s DCP (Digital Cinema Package) which includes DCI compliant Doremi DCP 2000 2D/3D content servers as well as a Doremi TMS / LMS library and content management systems. This will enable simultaneous broadcast streams to multiple screens from a single cinema server using a 10GB digital cinema network backbone. This system will allow for last minute changes or content additions, including 3D playback.
DCI compliant CP2210 2K 2D/3D digital cinema projectors from Christie are also to be installed in all six projection rooms with two additional Christie Legacy analogue projectors to facilitate titles still being presented in this format.
Systems Solutions will also provide fully automated cinema dimming, lighting and control systems in all theatres. The installation, integration and commissioning of the project will be managed by independent cinema consultant Jean Marc Wynn.