Pawagam digital

Pawagam digital merujuk kepada pengunaan teknologi digital untuk mengedar dan menayangkan wayang gambar. Sebuah filem boleh diedarkan melalui cakera keras, cakera optik (seperti DVD) atau satelit dan dipaparkan menggunakan projektor digital berbanding projektor filem biasa. Pawagam digital berbeza daripada televisyen definisi tinggi dan, khususnya, tidak bergantung kepada televisyen atau piawai HDTV, nisbah bidang, atau kadar bingkainya. Projektor digital berkemampuan peleraian 2K mula dijual pada 2005, dan sejak 2006, kepesatan pertumbuhannya makin bertambah (2K merujuk kepada gambar yang mengandungi 2,048 piksel resolusi mendatar).

Teknologi
To match or improve the theater experience of movie audiences, sebuah sistem pawagam digital mesti memberi gambar dan bunyi berkualiti tinggi. Tambahan pula, pengurus pawagam memerlukan server controls untuk mengurus dan menayangkan filem dalam pelbagai pawagam, dan studio inginkan filem mereka encrypted with secure delivery, playback, and reporting of play times to the distribution company.

Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), a joint venture of the six major studios, published a system specification for digital cinema.  Briefly, the specification calls for picture encoding using the ISO/IEC 15444-1 "JPEG2000" (.jp2) standard and use of the CIE XYZ color space at 12 bits per component encoded with a 2.6 gamma applied at projection, and audio using the "Broadcast Wave" (.wav) format at 24 bits and 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling, controlled by an XML-format Composition Playlist, into an MXF-compliant file at a maximum data rate of 250 Mbit/s. Details about encryption, key management, and logging are all discussed in the specification as are the minimum specifications for the projectors employed including the color gamut, the contrast ratio and the brightness of the image. While much of the specification codifies work that had already been ongoing in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the specification is important in establishing a content owner framework for the distribution and security of first-release motion picture content.

Digital cinema conforming to the DCI Standard is referred to within the film industry as D-Cinema while all other forms of digital cinema are referred to as E-Cinema. Thus, while D-Cinema is a defined standard, though one that is still partly being framed by SMPTE as of 2007, E-Cinema may be anything, ranging from a DVD player connected to a consumer projector to something that approaches the quality of D-Cinema without conforming to some of the standards. Even D-Cinema itself has evolved over time before the DCI standards were framed. However, the current DCI standards were made with the intention of standing the test of time, much like 35 mm film which has evolved but still retained compatibility over a substantial part of a century.

In addition to DCI's work, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) released its Digital Cinema System Requirements. 
The document addresses the requirements of digital cinema systems from the operational needs of the exhibitor, focusing on areas not addressed by DCI, including access for the visually impaired and hearing impaired, workflow inside the cinema, and equipment interoperability. In particular, NATO's document details requirements for the Theatre Management System (TMS), the governing software for digital cinema systems within a theatre complex, and provides direction for the development of security key management systems. As with DCI's document, NATO's document is also important to the SMPTE standards effort.

Senarai syarikat pawagam digital 
 Barco — digital projector manufacturer
 Christie — digital projector manufacturer
 Cinedigm (formerly Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. or AccessIT) — theater system integrator
 d2 — digital cinema integrator
 Deluxe Digital Studios — distributor and theater system integrator
 Dolby Laboratories — theater system integrator
 IMAX — digital projector manufacturer
 Kodak — theater system integrator
 NEC — digital projector manufacturer
 RealD Cinema — 3D cinema display technology
 RED Digital Cinema Camera Company — digital cinema camera manufacturer
 Sony — manufacturer of 4K digital projector and digital cinema servers and theater system integrator
 Technicolor — distributor and theater system integrator
 Texas Instruments — developers of DLP projector technology
 XDC — theater system integrator & digital server manufacturer

Lihat juga 
Sinematografi digital
Projektor digital
Digital intermediate
Digital Cinema Initiatives
Peleraian paparan
3D digital
Filem 3-D
Senarai topik berkait filem

Rujukan dan catatan

Pautan luar
 CNN story on Star Wars Episode II
 HD at Sundance
 White papers about Digital Cinema workflow 

Teknologi filem dan video
Media digital