Dolby Cinema arrives at Cineplexx this year with Dolby Vision laser
projection and award-winning Dolby Atmos sound
Cineplexx and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) today announced they
will open a Dolby
Cinema™ at six locations in Austria. Dolby Cinema offers a
premium cinema experience for moviegoers and combines spectacular Dolby
Vision™ laser projection and Dolby Atmos® sound technologies
with inspired design, making every visit to the cinema a completely
captivating event.
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Cineplexx will open two Dolby Cinema sites later this year, with the
first to be located in Linz. Further Dolby Cinemas are planned at major
Cineplexx locations across Austria and will open in 2016 and 2017.
“We are very pleased about this collaboration with Dolby,” said
Christian Langhammer, CEO Cineplexx Austria. "Cineplexx will be the
first cinema chain in the German speaking region to offer Dolby Cinema.
With this ground-breaking cinema innovation we will boost the moviegoing
experience to the next level: Dolby Cinema laser projection together
with Dolby Atmos sound – the best cinema experience of all time.”
“Dolby Cinema delivers an unforgettable cinema experience with
spectacular images and breathtaking sound,” said Doug Darrow, Senior
Vice President, Cinema Business Group, Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby Cinema
at Cineplexx will make every visit to the cinema a unique and
captivating event, transporting moviegoers in Austria into the story and
giving them the ultimate cinema experience.”
Dolby Cinema features the Dolby Vision projection system, which uses
state-of-the-art optics and image processing to deliver high dynamic
range with enhanced color technology and a contrast ratio that far
exceeds that of any other image technology on the market today. The
result is a richer more detailed viewing experience that delivers
strikingly vivid and realistic images and makes viewers feel like they
are in the movie’s world.
Dolby Cinema also includes the award-winning Dolby sound technology,
Dolby Atmos, which moves audio around the theatre, even overhead, with
amazing richness and depth. Combining Dolby technology with the design
and comfort of the Dolby Cinema at Cineplexx, audiences will feel closer
to the on-screen action than ever before.
About Constantin Film Holding GmbH
The film distributor Constantin Film Holding GmbH was founded in Austria
in 1951. A second mainstay was created at the end of the 1960's in the
segment of cine operations. In this segment, 25 traditional cinemas and
cinema centres were operated until the beginning of the 1990's and,
following a structural change, the Cineplexx Cine Operations GmbH, a
subsidiary company of the Constantin Film Holding GmbH, was founded in
1993. The business developed during a time when many traditional cinemas
in Austria were disappearing and multiplex movie theatres were
conquering the market. Constantin Film reacted to this trend by
establishing a group of 19 cinemas and 153 screens in Austria.
Additionally, traditional movie theatres with up to 18 halls existed.
In 2009, the Cineplexx INTERNATIONAL GmbH started expanding to Austria's
neighbouring countries and the first cinema outside Austria was opened
in Bolzano, South Tyrol. Cineplexx also took over a cinema in Zagreb’s
city centre, thus laying the foundation for expansion into Croatia.
Further Cineplexx cinemas followed in 2011 and 2012 in Croatia, Serbia,
Montenegro and Macedonia. In 2013 Cineplexx established five multiplex
movie theatres in Slovenia and the first seven-hall cinema in Albania.
The last expansion took place in spring 2014 with the opening of a
multiplex cinema in Usce, Serbia.
Today, Cineplexx has a strong market presence with 40 multiplex and six
traditional locations in Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro,
Macedonia, Albania and Italy, offering 291 halls. In 2014, the company’s
working force included 1,200 employees, the overall turnover amounted to
120 million euros and the number of Cineplexx visitors reached 10.5
million. More information is available at www.cineplexx.at
About Dolby Cinema
Dolby Cinema delivers the total cinema experience. It combines powerful
image and sound technologies with inspired cinema design to make every
visit a completely captivating cinematic event.
Dolby Cinema includes Dolby Vision—a state-of-the-art authoring and
playback imaging technology that enables the cinema to bring the story
alive onscreen. Outfitted with Dolby Atmos, a Dolby Cinema transports
audiences into the movie with breathtakingly real sound that fills the
cinema and flows all around them.
When these technologies are combined with the sophisticated Dolby Cinema
design, everything comes together to pull moviegoers more deeply into
the story and transform their visit into an event. For more information,
please visit the Dolby
Cinema web page.
About Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) creates audio, video, and voice
technologies that transform entertainment and communications in mobile
devices, at the cinema, at home, and at work. For 50 years, sight and
sound experiences have become more vibrant, clear, and powerful in Dolby®.
For more information, please visit www.dolby.com.
Dolby, Dolby Atmos, and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks of
Dolby Laboratories. Dolby Cinema and Dolby Vision are trademarks of
Dolby Laboratories. S15/28996 DLB-G
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