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  • Wizworks Multimedia to digitise 800 theatres of Karnataka

    BANGALORE / MUMBAI: Wizworks Multimedia Ltd. (WML) is bringing digital cinema to Karnataka. The Bangalore-based company, which offers cinema post production solutions, is planning to digitise 800 theatres in the state.
     

    Mumbai based Mukta Adlabs Digital Exhibition will be providing tele-cine and converging solutions to Wizworks for the digital distribution. Wizworks will be using digital projectors supplied by Belgium-based company BACO.
     
     

    Wizworks CEO Lloyd A Robert told Indientelevision.com that the company won’t be making any big investments in the project. He said WML would help exhibitors to get loans from banks.

    “WML is not making any fresh invetments in the project. BACO’s digital equipments will be reaching the exhibitors through us. Now exhibitors need to invest in the equipments and we are helping them out to get financial assistance. For this, we are negotiating with banks,” says Robert.

    WML will begin its digital operations in Karnataka by converting 100 theatres in the first phase. The company has plans to get into the Andhra market as well.

    Mukta-Adlabs has its digital screen presence in states Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Mukta’s competitor in the region is Blockbuster Cinemas – a group of film distributors, exhibitors and music companies lead by Time Group’s Dhiraj Shah. In Tamil Nadu, digital cinema is initiated by Chennai-based Kalasa Entertainment Media Private Limited (KEMPL) and Real Image.
     

  • Recreate to digitise Films Division content

    MUMBAI: Films Division, attached to the information and broadcasting ministry, is archiving its content into a digital form. It has selected Recreate Solutions, a London based company for the task.
    A Recreate Solutions release states Films Division will supply materials in the various formats it has viz. Beta, DG-beta, Mini DV, DAT, CD/DVD, S-VHS and VHS formats.
    Recreate would web enable these through the process of encoding, editing, and indexing/ Meta data entry and host the same in various streamable formats like Windows, Real, Quick time and MPEG. In addition, Recreate would then create a retrieval software akin to any celebrated versatile search engine, which would be accessible on Films Division website (www.filmsdivision.org) .
    “This is a step in the right direction. Globally, media companies have realised the benefits of digitalisation of media assets. Through digitalisation, the assets are easily searchable and they are kept contemporary and do not age. For us at Films Division this is the beginning and should this project go well, we would look at archiving the whole library. Hosting it on the web site will make the content browseable globally and increase market size,” Films Division, director administration Sanjaya Pattanayaka is quoted as saying.
    Recreate is a digital media company set up in 2000 to specialise in digital content conversion.