DCINEMA wild ballpark price?

Who cares how much it costs - the question is can you get the content to justify having a server in the first place.

Neil

this is entirely the wrong place to look for that info. most ppl are not in that area at all.

If you contact NEC or Barco or Christie, they can put you in touch with integration firms that do that kind of work and can give you the whole picture.

But... to ballpark a proj, a lens, a spare lamp, server, processor for audio, 250~ish~

Nope 140 without audio.

The European Christie marketing rep. once told me it would be around 80K GBP/120K Euro to kit out a cinema for digital. So, that should give you a ballpark figure for the projector/lens/server/installation/some adaptor stuff and so on that would complement the existing cinema exquipment.

Of course prices will vary on who you are, and who you're buying from. Whether you are part of one of those large volume retrofitting programmes, or simply want one for your basement generally makes quite a difference. In professional electronics discounts vary from 5-50% on list, so.

Cineramax's figure sounds quite credible. He has experience in doing small scale (one projector/server) D-Cinema projects, and associated pricing.

average references on the web refer to a cost (ballpark) of outfitting a conventional theatre at about 150K. and this is going to be with a smaller size array. for a theatre, they only (right now) need to store 2 or 3 movies at a theatre. for a home type of app, there are more costs to factor in. as well, you would want a substantially larger array so that you do not need to wipe one movie when you get another.

Barco dp1500, alternative content caler,spare bulb, optional contrast enhancement, remote control, 1.2 tera (7-9 movies)olby SHOW server, dolby player $135K, requires surround processor with 4 aes eb ins and possibly hdmi for alterative content.

And you can get a cheap server or diskswap pc to feed new encrypted movie files onto the Dolby server. 90 bucks for a 465 gig 'floppydisk', depending on the movie this 'diskette' would hold one or two movies.

Hmmmm, Cineramax seems to be guiding you correctly. Dolby servers are a relatively new product. Theres GDC servers who make the display maestro series. ACTUALLY....theres a lot of options. Will you believe that the windows based media servers used off the shelf computers to screen movies in real large scale cinemas. This was for the windows based digital cinema system. They used windows Hd files etc etc. Most modern D-cinema applications will use mpeg2 format or MXF interop files loaded on their servers. You can even make a raid controlled server of you own. Throw in a touch screen etc etc. There are lot of secrets to this line and how you can come up with amazing stuff. But youd have to minimum go with a 2k- 3 chip dlp. Actually if it came down to it you can configure a complete set up very economically. But WHERE will you get media for this. Most modern film production houses like warner and sony pictures make their dcinema formats on HDDs and send them out. Easier Distribution !. Many are encrypted with their own special encryption and need decryption keys to run on a server etc. Unless this is for your own material. What are you trying to do ? Build a commercial cinema ??

Encrypted JPEG2000 material is hard to come by. I bumped into a German vendor supplying OEM DCI decryption boards, at IBC, but in non-OEM quanties they would be way too expensive (7K Euro) compared to a ready-made, D-Cinema projector, so you could build decryption into other projectors, but you still need to be in clubs like Peter's to get a key. There are plenty of server vendors out there for this application, can't remember most of them now, even after getting dozens and dozens of emails over the years, ffrom one vendor in particular;-).

And who would that one vendor be ???