Ymagis Group, the European specialist in digital
technologies for the cinema industry, today announced it will be showcasing its
revolutionary new EclairColor digital color solution in Los Angeles over a four-day
period from the 1st November – 4th November 2016.
The EclairColor
presentation will take place at the landmark state-of-the-art 350-seat screening
facility Harmony Gold Preview House, situated on Sunset Boulevard which has
been specially equipped with a
Sony Digital Cinema 4K SRX-R515 projection system.
Presenting the revolutionary EclairColor technology to
leading Hollywood studios, cinema exhibitors, production companies and the
creative filmmaking community will be Ymagis Group’s President and CEO Jean
Mizrahi, Eclair VP of Technology Cédric Lejeune, Christophe Lacroix, SVP Eclair,
and Manel Carreras, SVP Business Development & Studio Relations Eclair.
“We are particularly thrilled to be presenting our
EclairColor technology to the Los Angeles motion picture industry,” said Jean
Mizrahi. “Cinemas, from the earliest days, have been on the cutting edge of
image and sound innovation, and they must remain an experience unlike any
other. The significant advantages that EclairColor provides are clearly visible
to all, which should greatly ease the adoption of this new technology by
cinemas considering that we have rendered this process compatible with a range
of existing projection systems allowing for virtually immediate access to our
solution. I also wish to salute the Sony Digital Cinema 4K team for their
support of the Los Angeles presentation.”
“Since 1907, Eclair has been synonymous with
innovation in cinema and we intend to keep it as part of our DNA,” explains Cedric
Lejeune. “With EclairColor, the benefits for moviegoers as well as movie exhibitors
include significantly enhanced image quality. The color range is much richer, the
gradients much more refined, even in the darkest colors. The additional
contrast helps reveal finer details even though the pixel resolution remains
unchanged.”
Officially unveiled 7 July following the CineEurope
convention in Barcelona (Spain), EclairColor is a new digital
color solution that combines postproduction processes and the optimization of
select projection system technologies available through Ymagis Group’s
exhibitor services arm CinemaNext. EclairColor is the culmination of eighteen
months of development and extensive testing by Ymagis Group engineers.
CinemaNext states that it is able to equip all types of cinemas, regardless of
screen size, to project films mastered using EclairColor technology. The
equipment can be used to screen EclairColor mastered content as well as
standard content.
EclairColor™ is a registered trademark of Ymagis
Group.
