The new DreamWorks Animation movie ‘The Croods’ premièred twice during the past 63rd Berlin International Film Festival: one day after its official première came an additional screening in Auro 11.1 by Barco. Thanks to the exceptionally natural sound ensured by the new Auro 11.1 sound format, moviegoers were totally immersed in the new movie at Berlin’s CineStar Sony Center, last Saturday.

After a ten-day roller coaster of screenings, press conferences, award ceremonies and parties, the curtain fell over the 63rd Berlinale last Sunday. As the film festival organization can look back on a successful event - a total of some 300,000 tickets were sold –, Barco is happy too: all its projectors used for the screenings did a great job. Not in the least the new compact DP2K-10Sx projector that was set up at the Berlinale`s small cinema theaters.

Just when you thought show direction was only getting more complicated, Alford Media has developed an easy-to-use wireless controller enabling iPad control of Barco’s family of presentation switchers. Sponsored by Barco, the Alford Control Toolkit can now ease the life for show directors charged with creating spectacular live events. This app enables Barco’s ScreenPRO-II, Small Encore and Large Encore Controllers, and the FSN switcher to be effortlessly controlled at the show director’s fingertips using their iPad and iPad Mini.

We are proud to announce that our 3D cinema sound format, Auro 11.1 is currently in the running to get a Technical Achievement Award 2012 from the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) in the category ‘post-production’. Currently deployed in over 50 installations worldwide and with an increasing number of directors embracing the format, this award nomination by cinema audio experts further illustrates that Auro 11.1 is the future of cinematic sound. The winners will be announced tomorrow at the 49th Annual CAS Awards dinner in Los Angeles. Fingers crossed!

Visitors to the Barco booth at the latest edition of Arab Health, the leading healthcare trade show in the Middle East region, were impressed with the new Barco JAO Smart Terminals. The audience learned how the bedside terminals benefit both patients and healthcare providers, offering patient entertainment as well as clinical information.

Meet Barco's TCD-361/LED tower display for air traffic control applications. Using high-bright LED backlights, this 24-inch monitor offers excellent readability, whether in bright daylight or during dimmed night time.

To efficiently monitor and manage safety risks on two major highways north of São Paulo, Brazil, CCR AutoBAn equipped its new operational control center with a 7 x 2 70" OV-708 Barco video wall. Barco´s video-streaming decoding expertise allows the operator to display a large number of images simultaneously, without losing sight of important details.

The 2013 edition of Integrated Systems Europe was concluded 10 days ago. Visitors to the brand-new Barco booth learned all about our smart technologies. Watch the videos for highlights of the 3-day tradeshow.

The Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) marked the official opening of its 2013 edition with a glamorous gala yesterday evening. For the past ten years, Barco has been guiding the film festival into the digital age with an ever-growing number of Barco digital cinema projectors.

Dealing with bandwidth issues, preventing network breakdowns, guaranteeing 24/7 availability of the telecommunications network: it is all part of the daily business at Belgacom’s Network Operations Center. To monitor this data traffic more efficiently and tackle emerging challenges, Belgacom recently installed Barco’s TransForm N platform. Replacing the lamps by LEDs has helped cut costs.