...CINECOLOR SAT, a satellite cinema distribution system delivering content throughout Latin America. This contract is one of the three Centient™ contracts announced by IDC on July 4th, 2012, and is valued at $1.3M US, including a five year support contract.

Under this contract, IDC’s Centient™ Pro Cinema Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform will be deployed to provide secure satellite delivery of both: movie content; and live sporting and musical events, to cinema locations throughout Latin America. Delivering content via satellite improves the speed and reliability and reduces the cost of movie content distribution, while coverage of live events provides theatre owners with lucrative sources of additional revenue.

IDC’s Centient CDN is media aware, enabling the platform to interpret, manage and process the content within files and streams as opposed to treating them simply as data. The Centient Pro Cinema platform is able to ingest, verify and confirm delivery of content conforming to the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) file and directory format devised by movie studios to enable the secure digital distribution of their valuable content. The platform is also able to encode and decode high quality 2D and 3D linear streams for the encrypted distribution of live events to theatre locations in either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 formats.

Theatre locations within the CINECOLOR SAT network will be equipped with IDC SuperFlex Pro Cinema Cache Servers for movie content (DCP) reception and storage, and optionally with Pro Cinema Event Players for the reception and decoding of live events. Having separate devices for DCP storage and live event decoding allows each theatre location to be equipped in the most cost effective way according to its requirements. Both devices can be controlled and managed centrally from the Pro Cinema headend located in Santiago, Chile.