Kurt Schwenk, General Manager, Digital Cinema Division, NEC Solutions (America), talks about the role of NECSAM's digital cinema projectors in Hollywood's post-production environment

Entertainment Technology World #40

Burbank, California
February 1, 2006

By Marc Strassman
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Kurt Schwenk, General Manager, Digital Cinema Division, NEC Solutions (America) (NECSAM)

Kurt Schwenk is the General Manager of the Digital Cinema Division at NEC Solutions (America) (NECSAM). He's appeared three times before (on March 24, 2005, August 2, 2005, and October 19, 2005) on Entertainment Technology World to talk about the latest developments in the field of digital cinema, a process which involves the creation of digital files containing all the information necessary to generate beams of light that project moving images on a screen, the secure transfer and storage of this information in theaters, and the projection of those digitally-stored images on a screen.

NEC Solutions (America), Inc. achieves high install rate for its Starus™ iS8 digital camera in the Hollywood post-production environment

On January 17, 2006, NEC Solutions (America), Inc. announced that "it has achieved the highest install level of its Starus™ iS8 digital cinema projectors with DLP Cinema® technology from Texas Instruments in digitally equipped post-production houses in North America. CineWorks, Complete Post, Digi-Flicks®, Digital Post, Disney® Projection Department, Warner Bros., Dolby Laboratories, FotoKem, LaserPacific Media Corporation, Post Logic, Sony Imageworks Inc., and Technicolor Creative Services USA Inc. have all selected the superior image quality of NEC’s Starus digital cinema projectors for their post-production needs."

You can access the complete text of the press release issued in this regard by clicking here.

a video interview with Kurt Schwenk

Entertainment Technology World travelled today to Kurt Schwenk's office in Burbank, California, and, using the Casio Exilim EX-S500 Ultra Slim Card Camera, recorded a video interview with him to talk about the role of his company's digital cinema equipment in the Hollywood post-production environment.

You can watch and listen to that interview by clicking on the image below:

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Kurt Schwenk, General Manager, Digital Cinema Division, NEC Solutions (America)


To see another kind of cutting-edge entertainment technology in action, click here to view this same video as hosted on the Google Video web site.

a look at some NECSAM digital video hardware

To take a look at the NECSAM Digital Cinema Hub Server, click here.

To take a look at the NECSAM iS8 Digital Video Projector, click here.

NEC Solutions (America)'s Starus™ NC2500S Digital Cinema projector

 

                                                           




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