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CineSend Partners With Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition For Next-Gen DCP Delivery Solution
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CineSend announced its partnership with Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition to provide hardware and software technology to power DCDC’s next-gen content delivery network.
CineSend designed, built, and operates Canada’s largest broadband digital cinema delivery network. Its platform also transmits thousands of titles to hundreds of film festivals around the world including Sundance, Tribeca, and NYFF.
CineSend is the same company whose OTT solution powers online streaming experiences racking up millions of views across studios and cinemas including A24’s Screening Room, Metrograph At Home, and other leading media and entertainment brands.
Now the company is expanding its technology footprint by partnering in the US with Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC), the world’s largest cinema satellite delivery network.
Since their inception, DCDC has provided the industry with a cost effective and efficient form of digital delivery to cinemas across the United States, now reaching more than 33,300 screens. Of DCDC’s 3,120 theater sites, 130 are “satellite challenged” and cannot receive satellite deliveries due to line-of-sight issues.
These cinemas have been receiving content via physical hard drives. To expand their reach and enable these sites to receive content digitally, DCDC has selected CineSend to provide their hardware and software solution for the network.
“It’s great that we’re able to offer an alternative digital delivery method to cinemas that can’t install our satellite solution.” noted Howard Kiedaisch, CEO of DCDC. “Our partnership with CineSend and Velocity is off to a great start as we’ve already delivered our first major studio title via broadband after only a couple of months”. Eric Rosset, VP Business Development at CineSend said, “We look forward to working with DCDC to bring the next generation of content delivery technology to the US film distribution market. The new network will speed time to delivery for Studios and save cinemas money.”
