Xiamen Airlines, China’s first publicly owned airline, chose Barco’s OVL video wall and Tranform A controller for the control room of its new Airline Operation Center (AOC). The operation center, said to be the most advanced in Asia, became operational on 15 November last.

The eagerly anticipated premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians” delivered a special treat for patrons of the Pacific Theatre at The Grove in Hollywood last month. The venue was one of the first in North America to show the movie mixed in Barco Auro 11.1, astonishing audiences with true-to-life, immersive cinema sound. “The sound was really incredible. Barco Auro 11.1 shined when you heard the voice of Pitch, or the Boogeyman, from every corner of the theater as he melds into the shadows. It was one of the best ways to show how immersive this system is as it serves the story so well, which is the most important thing,” said Sound Designer Greg Fonda.

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As the first sound production studio in Hollywood to use Barco’s 3D cinema sound format to mix a feature-length film, the Dub Stage is the talk of Tinseltown these days. Marti Humphrey, President and Re-Recording Mixer at The Dub Stage, and Associate Chris Jacobson, discuss how they enlivened DreamWorks Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians” with three layers of sound to create an awe-inspiring cinema experience.


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Ernst & Young, Google, Danske Bank, Microsoft, the Nephew 2012 tour, Roskilde Festival: it’s just a few of the exciting businesses/ projects that long-term Barco partner Comtech supported with Barco gear, over the past few years. Ever satisfied about Barco’s quality and services, the Copenhagen-based audiovisual expert just purchased 100m2 of Barco LiveDots C11 LED tiles. The C11 is a first step to expand its rental fleet with a range of high-quality products for the Scandinavian rental and staging market.

Besides yesterday’s story about the release of ‘The Bombardment’ in Barco Auro 11.1, there’s more exciting digital film news this week. The legendary small Belgian Cinema De Keizer will reopen its doors to the public tonight, after a successful avant-première of ‘Brasserie Romantique’ last Tuesday. Barco installed its new DP2K-10S digital cinema projector, designed specifically for small theaters, to ensure a bright future for this one-screen, unique cinema.

The CineMec movie theater in Ede, the Netherlands, is all geared up for an exciting première tonight: the Dutch production company Fu Works will première its latest film, ‘The Bombardment’, which has been mixed in Barco Auro 11.1. Both the producers and director as well as CineMec – the first cinema in the Netherlands to be equipped with Barco’s new sound technology - agree that Auro 11.1 significantly enriches the cinema experience of ‘The Bombardment’.

Last month’s press conference announcing the alliance between DreamWorks Animation and Barco generated a flurry of excitement among movie industry journalists about the potential of 3D cinema audio. “Auro 11.1 is a new way to mix audio for films which should create an immersive 3D sound experience for people sitting in a theater...It's fascinating audio tech, and hopefully gains more of a foothold with this DreamWorks deal. Increasingly, the home theater is able to compete with most of what a movie theater can offer, so I'm always happy to see improvements to the communal experience, especially when it results in an experience I can't replicate in my living room.”
- Juan Carlos Bagnell, YourTechReport

Polish audiovisual expert Visualsupport has recently made some major investments in Barco technology. After renting Barco products for a few years, they purchased two HDX-W18 projectors and just last week their HDQ-2K40 projector arrived. The ultra-bright, yet compact, HDX-W18 did a great job at the recent Light Move Festival in the city of Łódź.

Discover new technologies, network with peers and party: these are the ingredients of the annual ‘Customer Nights’ staged by Barco partner AED Rent. The event format is much appreciated. Over 900 rental and staging experts visited this year’s Customer Nights in Capelle (the Netherlands) on 27 and 28 November and in Willebroek (Belgium), on 12 and 13 December last. On show were Barco’s ultra-bright HDX-W18 and HDQ-2K40 projectors, the super-silent RLM-W8 projector, as well as AED’s LiveDots LED solutions and image processors.

On 12 December last, the Hong Kong action movie ‘Chinese 12 Zodiacs’, directed by and starring the famous Jackie Chan, premièred at Beijing National Stadium. The première was full of Guinness World Record titles. Barco’s DP2K-32B projector, the brightest projector in the Guinness Book of World Records, was used to display the movie on the world’s largest screen (38m wide and 16m high). What’s more, Chan, himself, was awarded two Guinness World Record titles: one for holding the most credits in a movie and one for most stunts by a living actor.