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by Marcello Mazzucotelli

New digital installations for Digima Italia

With the ambitious goal to reach 200 digital installations in 3 years, Digima has recently signed some important agreements in Liguria, Emilia Romagna and Piemonte (Italy). The cinemas Politeama Dianese, in Diano Marina (IM), Ariston, in Sestri Levante (GE) and Centrale, in Santa Margherita Ligure (GE) are the first 3 cinemas in Liguria which have chosen DIGIMA for the digitalisation of their screens. They will be equipped with digital projectors Christie CP2000ZX, server DCP 2K Doremi and 3D system Xpand and RealD. The digital shift will take place at the end of July and the first big appointment will be the release, also in 3D, of the movie The Ice Age 3.

DIGIMA has been participating into the renovation of the Eliseo cinema in Cesena which, going from 2 to 4 screens, has been equipped with a digital projector Christie CP2000ZX, a professional server Doremi DCP 2K and a stereoscopic Xpand 3D system. Besides, the equipment for satellite live transmissions on the big screen – an increasingly requested content from cinema-goers - will be installed in the cinema in Cesena.

At the Metropolis movie complex (9 screens) in Castelletto Ticino (Novara), instead, the first italian screen with fully digital system will be created. The screen will be called “The Cube” and it will be located in the area of the complex that now hosts screens 8 and 9. The installation will be made by Digima which will remote control all the activities, from its Operations Center, without the necessity of any operator. “The Cube” will be active from the beginning of August 2009.

The multiscreen Charlie Chaplin in Arzignano, Vicenza, finally, will be equipped with a digital projector Christie CP 2000-ZX Triple Flash D-Cinema 3Chip DLP, server DCP 2K Doremi and 3D technology provided by RealD.