We’ve proudly announced on the 5th January post the creation of a new cell within the Operations activities: the Account Project Management.

During the last 6 months, the Account Project Management proved its value and its necessity for our customer’s satisfaction.

Due to this success, the Account Project Management team welcomes one more member starting from August. Jérome Michel, our new colleague, will be in charge of the German speaking customers, organizing the different aspects of the deployment and doing the follow-up close to the customer.

The entire Account Project Management team represents XDC in front of our customers and they represent customers (being the out-loud voice for any demands) in front of XDC managerial staff. Therefore, the importance of this new cell is capital when we aim for customer satisfaction and deployment excellence.

With a continuous investment in highly-qualified personnel, XDC continues its progress to achieving the leading place in the digital cinema deployment and the customers’ highest fulfilment for exceptional service.

For any info, please contact the Account Project Management team by email: projectmanagement@xdcinema.com.

Because cinema means video…we are very happy to present you our very new corporate videos.

Just click to see the video presentations of :
XDC Overview & VPF
XDC CineStore® Products
XDC Deployment & Operations
XDC Content Lab
XDC Web Portals

Temporary on external source, these videos will be soon hosted on our website.

Hope you will enjoy it!

XDC Made Complete Digital Breakthrough at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival:

50 Digital Films (incl. 3D) – 100 Digital Screenings - 19 Digital Systems !

A lot of meetings with producers, distributors and right owners, all of them showing a great interest for digital cinema as well as XDC services.

Euronews program “Futuris: From Scene to Screen” presents the IPRacine European project held over the last three years.

XDC was one of the partners of this fruitful project for the cinema industry. The Futuris program presents some of the products and new technologies developed within this European project, among others the CineStore SoloG3 playback server from XDC

Digital Cinema was still an emerging market when IP-RACINE project started in 2004, less than 150 cinema screens in the world were digital (about 0.1% of the total) and about 100-150 films in total had ever been ‘finished’ through the Digital Intermediate process with a mere handful of live-action features had been originated digitally. At the end of 2007 when the project ends, there was strong evidence that Digital Cinema offers a real market for products and services.

In this change, IP-RACINE aimed to secure the future of the European Cinema industry from film to digital, improving the competitiveness of European Digital Cinema (DC) by developing workflow techniques for integrating the digital process ‘from scene to screen’, and advancing the state of the art of digital cameras, virtual cinema studio production, cinema objects description, processing and postproduction, digital playout and display of sound and image for better user experience.

The Dardenne brothers choose XDC to make their digital copies for their new movie “Lorna’s Silence”. XDC made 11 copies for Belgium and Luxembourg before its official release date on August 27th. The directors also won the Award for Best Screenplay for this movie at the Cannes Film Festival last may.

Great news! The “3 Monkeys” movie won the Award for the Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival.

The DCP has been prepared by XDC. We wish a lot of success to Nuri Bilge Ceylan the director of the film who met our DCL team at the beginning of the month.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Director) and Gökhan Tiryaki came to XDC to meet our Digital Content Lab team and checked their “3 Monkeys” movie in digital in our QC room.

The movie was processed by our DCL and selected this year at the 61st Cannes Film Festival Competition.

A boost for the company’s position in the European Cinema Market.

To enhance its management structure, the Board of Directors has appointed Serge Plasch as new Chief Executive Officer from January 1, 2008. He will replace Laurent Minguet, founder and CEO of XDC. Laurent will step down from his daily executive functions at XDC, but remain a Board Member of XDC International. The Board is extraordinary grateful for the vision and entrepreneurial élan with which he led XDC to the forefront of the European Digital Cinema field.

Serge Plasch has been Managing Director of Screenvision Benelux since 2001 where he reinforced and anchored the leadership of this major advertising sales company for the Cinema Industry. Speaking English, French, Dutch, and German fluently, he will greatly strengthen XDC’s position in the large and fragmented European Cinema market. Enthusiastic about this new opportunity, the new Managing Director & CEO says: “After years of talks and trials, wide spread Digital Cinema deployment is underway. All market players are convinced that Cinema will be digitized to the great benefit of the audience, and, with a viable business model, the industry can remain the pre-eminent channel for the distribution and exhibition of filmed, and increasingly in the future, large-screen, live entertainment.. XDC has proven its skills to operate DC screens through a full range of services and network technologies. XDC has the premier DC Content lab in Europe and has built the largest early-stage DC network, (exceeding 300 systems), for leading cinema groups. I am also very pleased to work closely with a very motivated team and, in particular, with Bernard Collard, General Manager of XDC.”