The venture between Christie and AccessIT, called Christie/AIX, has led so far to the installation of 1,000 digital cinema systems. The installations, using Christie CP2000 projectors and services, are part of a planned 4,000-screen rollout of systems that are fully-integrated and networked and built to the technical specifications set last year by DCI, the consortium of the major Hollywood studios.

The systems include the 2K DLP Cinema projectors, JPEG-2000 media players, a central server running AccessIT’s Theatre Command Center software, two-way satellite connectivity, and security according to the DCI Technical Specification with Cine-Link2 and video watermarking.