Harkness Screens and Highlands Technologies
Solutions (HTS) today announced an agreement that recognises Harkness Screens
as the exclusive global partner and commercial licensee of Qalif light
measurement products for commercial cinema.
Developed by HTS with key technical inputs from
Harkness, the Qalif range encompasses a number of tools designed to allow
cinema exhibitors to improve, maintain and manage presentation quality in
cinema. The range of tools include the
automated audio and visual monitoring tools in Qalif Ultimate, Optimiser and
Lite along with the recently released Qalif Spectro (a spectroradiometer) and
Qalif Aligner, for use in automatically aligning double and triple beam 3D
systems.
Commenting on the
announcement, Harkness CEO, Mark Ashcroft said "we are delighted to have
secured this exclusive global licence allowing us to further integrate Qalif
technology into our Curolux screen monitoring platform. From our industry-leading screens, through to
our people and the best in breed technologies, we’ve been committed to
supporting cinema exhibitors in their drive to improve the cinematic experience
for movie-goers and with the Qalif suite of tools, we are now able to provide a
platform that can monitor and maintain presentation quality in a way that up
until recently only a traditional projectionist could.”
Harkness will showcase the Curolux screen
monitoring platform during Cinemacon 2016 with live demonstrations in the Turin
Room (Caesars Palace).
The new fully integrated
package will allow cinemas to take advantage of Harkness’ unique offering
helping them to optimise presentation quality at design stage and then maintain
this for the lifetime of the screen.
HTS CEO, Patrick
Zucchetta said, “The Harkness team has been instrumental in the development of
the Qalif products to date and their insights and knowledge have been
invaluable in creating a robust set of tools that are changing the way cinemas
look at presentation setup and quality. In Harkness we believe we have the
perfect partner to help us meet our desire, to assist exhibitors in improving
presentation quality.”
Harkness has also
confirmed that existing HTS partners CineActive Solutions and Labodigital will
become non-exclusive principal resellers for the USA and Latin American
respectively.
