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Michigan Theater upgrades to new state-of-the-art digital projector

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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The historic Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor is about to install a fancy new digital projector.

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The Michigan Theater is in line for a new, fancy digital projector; specifically, a DCI Cinema Server and Project System.

That's theater jargon for a 4K Cinema Server System. Still confused? It really boils down to a $100,000 projector that allows the Ann Arbor vintage theater to show a great variety of movies, such as 3-D films. The plan is to have it installed in early May in time for "UP," Pixar's first 3-D film.

"It's the best you can get," says Russ Collins, CEO and executive director of The Michigan Theater. "It can show normal digital movies you see in a commercial theater or student movies."

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