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Kodak Turns to IBM and Linux for Digital Cinema
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 25 -- Eastman Kodak Company announced it has selected
IBM as the key supplier of computer servers, storage units and other
peripherals for the new Kodak Digital Cinema Operating System (COS).
Kodak's Cinema Operating System is at the heart of the company's Digital Cinema System, which includes the preparation, protection, distribution, and digital projection of images on cinema screens. The company demonstrated today the full Kodak Digital Cinema System, including the operating system and an advanced model of its prototype projector, at the Cinema Expo International Conference in Amsterdam, Holland. The company said it expects the first Kodak Digital Cinema Operating Systems to be installed later this year. The COS will provide a "digital backbone" to theaters, equipping them with the storage, scheduling, and playback capability they need to upgrade pre-show advertising content today and eventually to show digitally-projected movies and other entertainment. This is the infrastructure cinemas will need to take full advantage of the promise and potential of digital cinema. "Kodak has a long-standing relationship with IBM," says Bob Mayson, general manager and vice president of Digital Systems for Kodak's Entertainment Imaging business. "We chose IBM not only because they are a trusted technology partner, but because of their business experience and know-how. The Kodak Digital Cinema Operating System will be built on open standards and will enable cinemas to extend and enhance the entertainment experience." The Cinema Operating System will benefit from the combination of IBM's information technology leadership with Kodak's unrivalled knowledge of image science and software. IBM will provide core elements of its digital media technology, including IBM eServer systems running on the Linux operating system. Kodak will provide the software and overall system design, as well as training, service and support. "Kodak has created a solution that will enable theater owners and content owners to deliver exciting new capabilities in theaters," says Steve Canepa, vice president of IBM's Media & Entertainment Industry Group. "This new digital infrastructure will benefit from IBM's leadership in Linux and open-architecture servers, and our proven record of delivering solutions that manage and distribute digital content. We are delighted to have been selected as the technology enabler for Kodak's exciting new digital cinema initiative." The Kodak operating system is scalable to handle all the screens in a multiplex ? and was designed with advice and support from cinema managers, operators and experts in information technology. "Theater people understand our operating system," says Sean Lohan, Kodak's operation manager for Digital Cinema. "They tell us it feels intuitive to them, and that it works the way they are comfortable working. They can see immediately how it can simplify their job and help them to streamline routine tasks. And they like the fact that the Kodak system works today and is ready to handle more in the future." The combined Kodak-IBM offering will accommodate the future needs of theater owners, Mayson said. "This is all the infrastructure ? and the high-speed network ? cinemas will need to step up to a full digital cinema system when they're ready. Same server. Same network. And with Kodak and IBM behind it, cinemas know they can trust it ? and us ? for the long term." Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures -- for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in "infoimaging" -- a $225 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). Kodak harnesses its technology, market reach and a host of industry partnerships to provide innovative products and services for customers who need the information-rich content that images contain. The company, with sales last year of $13.2 billion, is organized into four major businesses: Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering flat-panel displays, optics and sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services. The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the following descriptive term 'server' following it. IBM and xSeries are trademarks of IBM Corporation. #
Lesia Figueira (figueira@us.ibm.com) (Log in to post comments)
Kodak Turns to IBM and Linux for Digital Cinema Posted Jun 25, 2002 19:09 UTC (Tue) by utoddl (subscriber, #1232) [Link] Sounds good, but... if they know Linux etc., why do they intersperse those question marks throughout their press releases?
Nice turn of phrase Posted Jun 26, 2002 5:01 UTC (Wed) by lance (guest, #2263) [Link] Heh."The Kodak Digital Cinema Operating System will Somewhat different from "embrace and extend".
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