Christie: total reliability in its lamps

After monitoring ten million passes in two years, Chistie presents a reliability of 99.999% in its digital cinema lamps.

Christie's Global Quality department and Network Operations Center (based in Cypress, California) have released a study that confirms 99.999% reliability of its lamps. Statistical information for this data has been obtained from the Christie Network Operations Center (NOC), which has monitored more than 10 million passes in the last two years. The data sample size includes the 3,800 Christie digital projectors installed during Phase 1 of the Christie/AIX (now Cinedigm) digital cinema deployment that began in December 2005. Each digital cinema system in that deployment is remotely monitored , on a 24/7 basis, and evaluated for environmental hygiene, maintenance, reliability and uptime.

Craig Sholder, vice president of Christie's Entertainment Solutions division, said: “We are in the unique position of having quantifiable data confirming that Christie lamps with Christie projectors provide exhibitors with a proven 99.999% uptime. Every month our NOC monitors more than 500,000 individual passes, and every month our Quality Department analyzes NOC data to ensure our systems continue to function flawlessly.” And in the economic situation we live in, it is essential for an exhibitor to ensure that he will not lose the proceeds of a screening due to a failure in the projection.

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