Modern Projectors for Multiplex Cinema

Had a chance to visit the projector room of a latest multiplex theater in one of the new malls at Bengaluru South. It is a really amazing technology. Gone are those days where people have to continuously attend to the projector to adjust precise distance between two carbon rods, or keep track of the discs and lights on/off etc.

Now with the latest projectors one can program the entire movie to play (MPEG4) from starting slides, lights on/off, ads, movie, interval, slides, end card without any intervention except pushing a start button. One Hard disk caries around 7 to 8 movies. All that the operator does is to insert the correct Hard disk into the projector and push a button. The movie can also be loaded on to the server so that they don’t need to handle the hard disks. They keep an additional lens kit for screening 3D movies in front of this projector. This projector can play the sound in Dolby, DTS as well as simple stereo or mono.

In future, the distributor will have a server, which serves, to all the theaters without any intervention and for a number of prescribed shows. The theater management just has to ensure that there is an uninterrupted Power supply with powerful AC and a high bandwidth network. Forgot one important thing, a direct high power AC vent into the projector through its head.

If you want to know more about the projector, follow this URL: http://www.barco.com/en/product/2180

Next time when you step into a cinema you know how it is being screened.