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  2. Digistar - Wikipedia

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    Digistar is the first computer graphics-based planetarium projection and content system.It was designed by Evans & Sutherland and released in 1983. The technology originally focused on accurate and high quality display of stars, including for the first time showing stars from points of view other than Earth's surface, travelling through the stars, and accurately showing celestial bodies from ...

  3. Digital cinema - Wikipedia

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    The digital-cinema roll-out was stalled by the slow pace at which exhibitors acquired digital projectors, since the savings would be seen not by themselves but by distribution companies. The Virtual Print Fee model was created to address this by passing some of the saving on to the cinemas.

  4. Projector - Wikipedia

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    A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens , but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers .

  5. History of display technology - Wikipedia

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    1987 optical micro-electro-mechanical technology that uses a digital micromirror device. While the Digital Light Processing (DLP) imaging device was invented by Texas Instruments, the first DLP-based projector was introduced by Digital Projection Ltd in 1997.

  6. Movie projector - Wikipedia

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    35 mm movie projector in operation Bill Hammack explains how a film projector works. A movie projector (or film projector) is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras.

  7. Digital light processing - Wikipedia

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    Digital Projection and Texas Instruments were both awarded Emmy Awards in 1998 for the DLP projector technology. DLP is used in a variety of display applications from traditional static displays to interactive displays and also non-traditional embedded applications including medical, security, and industrial uses. DLP technology is used in DLP ...

  8. Cash-Strapped Brazilian Exhibitors Struggle to Upgrade ... - AOL

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    The bulk of Brazilian exhibitors are currently in the process of replacing projectors acquired about 10 years ago in the transition to digital. The moment for new investments could not be worse ...

  9. Projectionist - Wikipedia

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    The introduction of digital cinema projection, on a significant scale from approximately 2006 to 2008, is rapidly bringing to an end the role of the projectionist as a professionally skilled operator of film-based projection equipment in mainstream theatres. As of November 2010, the major chains in the US and Europe are in the process of a ...