Cinemeccanica
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Cinemeccanica is a motion picture equipment company specializing in cinema projectors
. The company was formed in 1920 in Milano, Italy. Currently they have two film projectors available, the Victoria 5 (introduced in 1975) and the Victoria 8 (introduced in 1961). A new digital projector, the CMC3 D2 is also available.
The Victoria 8 at one time came in two models, a 35 mm film gauge and a dual 35/70 mm film gauge. The projector has become less popular in recent years with the smaller and cheaper Victoria 5 now the best selling projector from Cinemeccanica.
The company also manufacture film platter systems (the CNR-35N), film rewinders and Dolby Digital
and SR soundtrack readers.
Movie projector
A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying moving pictures by projecting them on a projection screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras.-Physiology:...
. The company was formed in 1920 in Milano, Italy. Currently they have two film projectors available, the Victoria 5 (introduced in 1975) and the Victoria 8 (introduced in 1961). A new digital projector, the CMC3 D2 is also available.
The Victoria 8 at one time came in two models, a 35 mm film gauge and a dual 35/70 mm film gauge. The projector has become less popular in recent years with the smaller and cheaper Victoria 5 now the best selling projector from Cinemeccanica.
The company also manufacture film platter systems (the CNR-35N), film rewinders and Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. It was originally called Dolby Stereo Digital until 1994. Except for Dolby TrueHD, the audio compression is lossy. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35mm film prints...
and SR soundtrack readers.