Thursday 11th, NOVEMBER 2010

Dear Member of the Independant Cinema Community,

As the end of the year fast approaches we are writing with an update about news and events of relevance to our customers and supporters.

DCN, Australia's most experienced and knowledgeable digital cinema company, is pleased to announce its new "Content Services" division. Distributors can now draw on DCN's digital cinema staff for content security, distribution and mastering.

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Key Management

The KDM Management system provides:

• a comprehensive web-based digital cinema content management.
• a fully secure "device certificate chain request". This ensures content and devices are certified and only come from registered suppliers.

DCN's solution is compatible with both Interop and SMPTE (a new form of DCP being introducd in 2011) Device Certificates.

Fully detailed audit trails and reporting can be accessed to ensure data integrity and security.

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Distribution

The Content Distribution service provides a secure, robust and tracked facility for the release of Features and Trailers. This includes the distribution of:

• Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs)
• eCinema packages utilising the AIDI standard

Along with distribution, DCN supplies full support via our Network Operations Centre (NOC). This service includes KDM ingestion and troubleshooting from DCN's highly experienced staff.

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Mastering & Quality Control

DCN provides professional mastering services including:

• eCinema and DCP content creation
• encryption for DCP and eCinema
• 3D for DCP and eCinema
• Subtitling
• in-house testing facilities for DCPs

Quality Control testing is performed on common DCI servers found in Australia, (Doremi, GDC and Qube)

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Library Services

DCN provides

• an archival service for DCP and eCinema content.
• Comprehensive duplication and management facilities through the dStore system

Also available is the 'dStore Lite' Library Server (free of charge to qualifying cinemas).

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Support

DCN provides real-time support to customers when they need it most...