DCP-Germany and XDC Agree On Cooperation And Join In Their Efforts to Promote Digital Cinema

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June 25, 2010

Source: XDC

XDC Digital Content Portal Germany, IT service provider for digital cinema data logistics and automation, have agreed on a partnership.

As a first step the development teams will provide basic compatibility of their systems in time when the DCPG data centre goes on line in July 2010. A roadmap is being developed for further integration of XDC's screen and theatre management systems and DCPG's comprehensive automation of distribution, verification, allocation and tracking of digital content. 

“We will actively support DCP-Germany's initiative on the market and make sure that our customers can use the features provided by DCP-Germany's system with their XDC Solo SMS or XDC Plaza TMS”, says Jérôme DELVAUX, Vice President Technology at XDC. “Our solutions complement one another and will make digital cinema even much easier to adopt and to operate.” 

DCP-Germany, among whose shareholder are a daughter of the Association of German Movie Theaters (HDF Kino e.V.) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, is a neutral service provider. The company helps distributors, post production and advertisers to distribute digital content and receive feedback on screening through elaborate logging functions. Automation helps exhibitors to plan their shows including all kinds of pre-show content. DCPG manages and validates all digital content, KDMs (key delivery messages) and screen certificates that pass her data centre. 

“In order to make our content portal available for XDC systems we’ve developed together a connector and we are now up-to-speed to fully integrate the solutions”, says Richard Kummeth, Managing Director of DCP-Germany.

“It is our mission to make digital cinema more reliable and easier to manage and control. The service is available for all providers of digital content and continuous development efforts make sure we have interfaces to all cinema systems. We are happy, that with XDC one of most important promoters of digital cinema supports us. I'm positive that out development teams will expeditiously implement such features as automatic play-list creation, KDM-management and logging for theatres that use XDC-systems.”