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Toronto Film Festival's new Lightbox installs Dolby technologies
Sept 8, 2010
The TIFF Bell Lightbox includes a Dolby Show Library, Dolby Screen Servers, Dolby CP650 and CP750 Digital Cinema Processors, DMA8Plus Digital Media Adapters, and a Dolby 3D playback system. In addition, Dolby Production Services will be onsite at the Festival
Dolby will be calibrating sound and enhancing image quality at all of the TIFF venues. Dolby has also partnered with TIFF to provide participants with the technology and expertise to convert their films into DCI Digital Cinema Packages for digital playback at the festival.
Dolby 3D will be used to present the world premiere of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, filmed inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their natural setting.
For more information on the Toronto International Film Festival and the TIFF Bell Lightbox, visit www.tiff.net.
Toronto Film Festival's new Lightbox installs Dolby technologies
Sept 8, 2010
The TIFF Bell Lightbox includes a Dolby Show Library, Dolby Screen Servers, Dolby CP650 and CP750 Digital Cinema Processors, DMA8Plus Digital Media Adapters, and a Dolby 3D playback system. In addition, Dolby Production Services will be onsite at the Festival
Dolby will be calibrating sound and enhancing image quality at all of the TIFF venues. Dolby has also partnered with TIFF to provide participants with the technology and expertise to convert their films into DCI Digital Cinema Packages for digital playback at the festival.
Dolby 3D will be used to present the world premiere of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, filmed inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their natural setting.
For more information on the Toronto International Film Festival and the TIFF Bell Lightbox, visit www.tiff.net.
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