Avevo sentito questo ma non per il 31 marzo! Pensare di vendere un aggiornamento obbligatorio a qualcuno che ha comprato un proiettore da 50.000 euro 6 mesi fa mi pare una pessima scelta!Steve Guttag ha scritto:Has everyone heard and headed the news that ALL series 1 projectors (including Barco: DP90, DP100, DP1200, DP1500, DP2000, DP3000; Christie CP2000(all); NEC NC-800C, NC-1500C, NC-1600C, NC-2500S) are to be required to have a major (hardware) security update?
Better yet, failure to perform this expensive update (typically between $3000-$5000 per projector...depending on brand and rebate plans offered) can be grounds for denying DCP content for being in violation of current DCI specs.
The security update typically involves the replacement of the, brand-specific, controller board of the particular cinema projector. The replacement board will be wrapped in what is called a GORE covering that effectively makes the board commit suicide in the event it loses power for more than 6-months, is handled even marginally harsh (press to hard on it and it dies). The idea is, there will be no way to get to the electronics on the board. It is reasonably easy to damage the board just on installing it.
We were told, at first, that only those theatres that collect VPFs in some manner (AccessIT/Cinedigm type deals) would be required since it was the VPFs that could be withheld if the updates were not done/verified (polling the projector remotely can show if the projector is suitably updated).
There is now an ugly rumor that VPFs or not, the studios will be requiring it. This I have not been able to verify nor figure out how they would know if you have or have not updated. As most know, the KDMs do not tie to the projector itself...just the player (mediablock). The player is only concerned about the Cinelink (I or II as appropriate) connection with the projector.
Has anyone out there got any real facts on this?
The text that I have seen has stated:
quote: the Exhibitor is responsible for the
Projector to be retrofitted by March 31, 2011 with either the Gore security
modification or the glued cable security modification. This is a
contractual exhibitor obligation per the studios’ requirement for compliance
with the DCI Spec...Failure to meet this deadline could result in the studios
not booking digital content on your digital systems.
With something as large as this looming within this month, I would think there would have been chatter about it on the board. However it seems almost stealthy in nature...some exhibitors got emails...many did not. There hasn't been much talk in the tech circles either. Christie has issued their "Security Update" but one almost had to be looking for it, it seems...if you get it, the software is there for all of the CP2000s, regardless of suffix. Barco and NEC have been seemingly even more quiet on the subject.
On the up side...at least for Barco (and probably the rest)...the update will turn that projector into an HDCP compliant projector (nice for things like DP100s that were probably never going to be updated any other way for HDCP).
-Steve
Chissà che riesca a trovare un proiettorino "serie 1" di qualcuno che fa cambio con un serie 2!