On Wednesday 6 December - tomorrow - the Kinepolis complexes in Flanders and Brussels will present the latest Flemish production "King of the World" (Koning Van De Wereld) in digital JPEG 2000 format. This is a major film first as King of the World is not only the very first Belgium film specifically designed for Kinepolis in this top-quality digital format, it is also one of the first such productions on the European cinema market as a whole. It is the fruit of a partnership between Kinepolis Group and Caviar, the producers of King of the World, and offers Belgian and European cinema-goers a truly hi-tech experience in sound and image.
JPEG 2000 is that format used for the internationally renowned DCI Digital Cinema Initiatives. It is already being applied by the 7 largest Hollywood studios for the creation and showing of digital Hollywood movies. A digital 2K projector (DP100) used in conjunction with a JPEG server guarantee optimum image quality in this format at a high resolution for the big screen.
The Kinepolis cinema group and Kinepolis Film Distribution (KFD), ever faithful to their mission to act as pioneers in the fields of innovative and digital cinema, have subscribed fully to the DCI recommendations and opted exclusively for JPEG 2000 for all digital films they distribute.
