IMAX pacts with Barco for several years

Imax has attracted on Barco becasue it is exclusive projector provider for an additional seven years. Beneath the pact, Imax will install an enhanced version of Barco's Xenon-based projectors in Imax theaters awaiting improving, additionally to new theater installations. The Two companies in concert with to handle transition to laser-driven projectors, they be ready to start applying in 2013. Imax has pacted with Kodak to take advantage of Kodak's laser projection technology. Belgium-based Bargo has licensed Kodak's laser projection IP. Finally month's Moody Gardens Digital Cinema Symposium in Texas, Barco proven a laser projector showing a 4K movie around the 70-ft screen, with brightness and color surpassing what Xenon-based projector. (Daily Variety, Jan. 19, 2012) Contact David S. Cohen at david.cohen@variety.com