Digital cinema systems have been around for some time, even the high-end “4K” variant. Digital cinema upstart RED, however, is making the high-resolution format more accessible for both filmmakers and theaters. And its technological breakthroughs could trickle down to consumers in the not-too-distant future.
At the beginning of this decade, it became apparent that the resolution specifications for HDTV—even the pixel-dense 1080p mode—just weren’t adequate to digitally project feature films in movie theaters. Both the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers as well as a new group, Digital Cinema Initiatives, began work to define standards for digital cinema playback. DCI, formed by several large Hollywood studios, released version 1.0 of the “Digital Cinema System Specification” in 2005; the current 1.2 version of the spec was formalized last March.
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