The executive board of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), at the association’s annual membership and board meetings at the Beverly Hilton, September 23 and 24, approved a resolution laying out aspects of a digital cinema technology evaluation program.
“Digital cinema has opened up the door to a wide range of technological advances,” said NATO Technology Committee chairman John D. McDonald, executive vice president, operations at AMC. “Exhibitors—the primary consumers of these technologies—along with other industry stakeholders, need an open, rational testing program to determine which of these technologies will work in the cinema space.”
In the early days of the digital cinema transition, major film distributors formed Digital Cinemas Initiatives, LLC (DCI) to establish a standard architecture for digital cinema systems known as the “DCI Specification.” Its mission was to create a uniform level of security, technical performance, and quality.
Source: NATO Resolves to Begin Exhibitor-Led Testing of Digital Cinema Technologies – Boxoffice