Doremi Scores with Sensio for Live 3D Broadcasts of World Cup Soccer

Doremi Scores with Sensio for Live 3D Broadcasts of World Cup Soccer

July 7, 2010

Source: Doremi

Doremi Cinema announced that its digital cinema servers are being used to playback Sensio's Live 3D broadcasts of World Cup Soccer matches around the world.

The 2010 World Cup will be the first-ever global live 3D event. SENSIO is FIFA's main live 3D events technology partner and is delivering this groundbreaking live 3D event to cinemas and large venues.

Sensio's Live 3D encoding and streaming technology is already embedded in all Doremi DCP-2000 and DCP-2K4 digital cinema servers and, at this point in time, only Doremi servers are capable of decoding Sensio Live 3D World Cup broadcasts without adding additional hardware in the projection booth. To date, there are over 1000 cinema screens worldwide that are broadcasting live 2010 World Cup matches.

"This is an exciting milestone for digital cinema equipped theatres and venues" comments Michael Archer, VP of Doremi Cinema. Exhibitors are seeing more alternative content revenue streams that support the transition to all-digital cinema screens, and Doremi's offers some new and unique hardware solutions to make it that much simpler to participate."

One of Doremi's solutions is for those theatres wanting to broadcast the live World Cup matches using other manufacturers' digital cinema servers. Here Doremi's new Dimension-3D Cine decoding hardware provides the needed bridging device to allow decoding Sensio live 3D events without the need to manually reconfigure the cabling. Thus far, over 158 sites are using this device to enable the live Sensio 3D broadcasts.

Should a theatre want to broadcast the World Cup Matches to several screens at once, Doremi has developed a multi-casting streaming device called the StreamIt. The StreamIt is a broadcast MPEG2 video streamer companion device for Doremi DCP-2000 and DCP-2K4 digital cinema servers.

The StreamIt enables the streaming of alternative programming via satellite to multiple screens live, in both 2D and 3D. Up to four screens can be streamed simultaneously allowing for up-to-the-minute scheduling. At this time, the StreamIt only works with Doremi Cinema servers.

Sensio President and CEO Nicholas Routhier comments, "It's exciting that theatre owners will be able to receive and stream live 3D events, like the World Cup, to an entirely new demographic of customers. Innovative companies like Doremi, with its Sensio 3D-enabled servers, and ancillary hardware options, means any digital cinema theatre can capitalize on live 3D World Cup broadcasts if they so desire."