The Economist took on the topic of digital cinema laser projection in their Technology Quarterly last month, and Barco's "Laser Guy" Bill Beck addressed the ongoing issue of standards. While the benefits of laser projection are well understood from a movie quality perspective - brighter 2D and especially 3D, more natural color and contrast, and ultra-realistic (fast!) frame rates and higher resolution, the economic reality for many exhibitors and studios is a bit more complicated. "Until Hollywood says what the color gamut, the frame rate and the dynamic range are going to be, and then supports that with production versions of their movies, it's just going to be technology testing."


Beck has been a champion of laser-illuminated digital cinema projection for more than a decade, focusing his efforts on the image quality and operating benefits of laser illumination for cinema exhibition and other high-performance projection applications.

Designed from the ground up, the Barco DP4K-60L laser projector is the simplest and only fully integrated 6P solution for cinema and the first of its kind capable of showing 4K content at 60 fps and 3D movies in full 4K resolution. It is also the only integrated RGB laser projector to achieve DCI compliance, marking another digital cinema industry first for Barco.

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