Qube excels as Digital Cinema Partner at 66th Venice International Film Festival

Qube XP-D servers equip all screens at the Venice Lido

London, September 18, 2009: Qube Cinema is pleased to announce that its exclusive partnership with the 66th Venice International Film Festival was, again, a major success. Qube was the official digital cinema server and digital cinema mastering equipment supplier for the second consecutive year. The festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, took place at the Venice Lido from September 2 to September 12, 2009.

Qube Cinema digitally equipped all seven screens at the venue along with local Qube distributor, D2. In collaboration with the projector partner, Qube Cinema/D2 provided all the necessary equipment and technical support to ensure successful DCI JPEG2000 digital cinema playback during the festival.

Mr. Angelo D’Alessio, Festival Technical Coordinator said, "Your machines and people did a fantastic job. Very professional and great team work. Thank you for the extraordinary help your company is giving here!"

Over 300 hours of digital cinema content was projected using the Qube XP-D digital cinema server, including stereoscopic 3D content, as a part of the Festivals program and also at this years SMPTE day. Qube Cinema also mastered on-site, from a number of sources using the powerful and flexible QubeMaster Pro application.

“We are delighted at being chosen for the second year as the official Digital Cinema Partner. The 66^th Festival was a huge success for Qube. It helped demonstrate the reliability and the flexibility of the XP-D server in handling the huge amounts of digital content screened at this prestigious festival.” said Nigel Dennis, Head-European Business Operations at Qube Cinema.

The Qube XP-D digital cinema server, which was used to equip the screens, is a popular choice across the world. Powerful, reliable and cost-effective, the Qube XP-D plays multiple formats including JPEG2000, MPEG-2 and VC1 within the same Show.  

Qube Cinema also showcased QubeMaster Pro again this year. Rapidly becoming an industry standard for DCI JPEG2000 DCP creation, QubeMaster Pro is used by some of the leading companies in the industry including Sony Pictures, Dreamworks, Technicolor, IMAX, Arts Alliance and Arri.

About Qube Cinema, Inc.

Today, if there are only a handful of companies across the world that are working to fulfill the exacting needs of DCI, there are fewer still who look beyond. Qube Cinema is committed to creating a seamless world of Digital Cinema with products that are innovative, powerful, reliable and cost-effective. Qube Cinema, Inc. is a company with a passion for cinema and a thorough understanding of film, video, audio and computer technology along with vast experience in the production, post-production and exhibition industries – a unique combination of expertise that has helped in the development of the company's digital cinema technology.

A subsidiary of India-based Real Image Media Technologies, Qube Cinema draws on decades of domain expertise in the media and entertainment space as well as long-standing relationships with key technology leaders. Real Image, a pioneer in media technology, has proven expertise in managing complex technology transformations. Qube Cinema is equipped with a dedicated and efficient team as well as world-class technology and software – a combination that will help realize the organization's vision of being a global leader in digital cinema technology. For further information on the Company, please visit www.qubecinema.com.

About D2

Digital Darwin (also d2) is a post-production/cinema technology & services company with a strong experience in fields of digital projection and post production equipment but also local & wide area networking and security, theatre management and system automation technology. We use common ICT methodologies, service management (distance monitoring) and a  service desk that operates 24/7 as a SPOC, single point of contact.

Our focus is to offer you the best digital cinema environment adapted to specific single or multi-screen cinema. D2 offers those services since 9 years to Benelux cinema operators and recently also in France, Italy and Spain. D2 distributes Qube Cinema products for mastering and play-out in those countries. www.d2cinema.com 

For further information, please contact:

Nigel Dennis
Qube Cinema Europe
T: +44 208 144 5661
M: +44 7878717548
nigel@qubcinema.com

James Troch
Digital Darwin / d2
T: +32 32 97 77 78
F:+32 32 97 77 72
james@d2.eu

Posted on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 13:49