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BARCO Announces First Generation of Commercially
Available Digital Cinema Projectors

BARCO, the world leader in display technology, announced the 'D-CineStar' Digital Cinema
projector to be available starting September of this year. BARCO, which was chosen by Texas
Instruments as one of only three worldwide licensees for the DLP Cinema™ chip technology
earlier this year, applied its expertise in electronics, optics and mechanics to develop this
projector together with Kinoton GmbH, renowned for the high quality of its lamp houses,
consoles and 35mm film projectors.

The BARCO D-CineStar, with the aid
of a 3000 watt Xenon lamp, delivers a
12 foot Lambert brightness on all but
the very largest of film screens,
combined with a film like contrast ratio
of 1000:1. and a 40% larger color space
than HDTV. The dedicated fully digital
24 frames per second signal input
guarantees natural film like motion. The
end result on the screen is bright, stable,
uniform images on the screen without
jump, weave, flicker or ghosting.

To date more than 750,000 people are
estimated to have witnessed Digital
Cinema trials in well over 5,000
{gLP showings in any of the more than 24
CINEMA" field trial locations in the UK, France,
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Belgium, Japan, Canada, Mexico and of
course the USA.

'We are excited to be part of this revolution-in-the-making", said Sjoerd DeClerck, Managing
Director Barco Digital Cinema, "and to work with the industry, Cinematographers, Producers,
Studio's, Distributors and Exhibitors alike to quickly solve the remaining technical and
business issues. Only in that way will we be able to achieve what it is all about: deliver a better
picture for a better Cinema experience for the Patron!"

Keith Morris, Market Manager Barco Digital Cinema added 'with our worldwide support
structure ofNational Organizations in more than 30 countries and our exclusive Distributors in
another 20 or so, we feel we are well placed to do justice to this worldwide market and to help
and support the Exhibitor where ever he may be as he enters The Digital Age'