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KODAK Theatre Management System.
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The KODAK Theatre Management System (TMS)
provides a highly reliable point of central control for your
cinema complex. The TMS is the heart of the KODAK
Solution for digital cinema. This is the system that
enables the exhibitor to receive and schedule content
more effi ciently, to distribute Keys, schedules, playlists
and content automatically and manage the business
and its resources more effectively. It helps take
redundancy out of cinema operations and helps the
exhibitor take full advantage of the promise and potential
of digital cinema. As an evolutionary software-based
system, the KODAK Theatre Management System
remains fl exible and adaptable to meet growing needs.
Through its wide area network connection, the TMS
enables the cinema to receive, load, and store content
arriving from satellite, hard drives, or from an on-site
Network Attached Storage (NAS).
Its in-cinema connection to the site's ticketing/point of
sale (POS) system and the multiplex's screens allows
the TMS to migrate and manage content and Keys
from multiple sources. It handles the distribution of all
components of a presentation; the pre-show, trailers,
snipes, and features to the correct screens, to play as
scheduled.
Through in-booth connections, the KODAK TMS directs
each screen's KODAK Content Player JMN3000
to automate a number of presentation functions,
including the control of audio, masking, lighting, and
the starting and stopping of projectors.
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The system also generates and collects data such as content
receipt and play, system performance, and even diagnostic
information regarding potential problems. The "pulse" of key
components is automatically monitored every five seconds.
Network connectivity
- Wide Area Network (WAN) connection via DSL to the
KODAK Network Operations Center (NOC) and Digital
Depots for automatic receipt of pre-show content,
pre-show playlists, and decryption Keys for feature
presentations
- Ability to integrate catcher-server for receipt of feature/
other content via satellite delivery
- In-cinema network connection to the ticketing/POS
system to import show schedule information and use it
for the automatic scheduling, distribution and playback of
presentations
- Local Area Network connection to all on-site content
players for downloading content, playlists, and Key
management, as well as remote monitoring and
diagnostics
- Scalability, via network, managing and automating up
to 30 screens in a complex, including lobby monitors/
displays
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Content and Key Delivery Message
(KDM) ingestion options
• Four USB 2.0 ports provide capability
to simultaneously receive/load up to
four drives into central storage.
• DVD-ROM, CD-ROM for easy loading
of trailers or alternative content.
• Automatic Key Delivery Messages
from KODAK Network Operations
Center via broadband access, and
from several participating content
distributors, via integrated modem.
Content scheduling
• Plug-in architecture to accommodate
a wide variety of ticketing/POS
systems
• Ability to retrieve POS information
via FTP, SOAP, Windows Share Auto
Mount, or Socket connection
Content migration
• 1 Gig local area network for two
concurrent migrations of content (at
307 Mbps)
• 10 Gig-Ethernet link for optional NAS;
the TMS supports six concurrent
migrations of content (at 307 Mbps)
via this Ethernet
Playlists
• When connected to a Wide Area
Network, "pre-show" playlists can be
created remotely and distributed to
the TMS for on-site deployment and
use
• In the cinema, feature playlists can
be created via the Graphical User
Interface on the KODAK Theatre
Management System and sent to the
Content Player over the in-theatre
network.
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Audit data
• Using SMPTE Secure log mechanism,
it has the ability to aggregate all
playback logs for all players in the
complex and report back to the
KODAK Network Operations Center
• Ability to collect component status
information, via regular heartbeat
and report to the NOC for remote
monitoring, diagnostics and repair
Internal storage
• 3.5 TB of storage on TMS provides
capacity to store about 11 feature
presentations
• 12 TB of storage on Networked
Attached Storage (NAS) provides
storage for about 40 feature length
presentations
Power
• Compatible with worldwide power
standards
• 100-240 VAC 50-60Hz (550 W max)
• Dual redundant power supplies
Operator Interface
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• 15-inch fl at panel monitor
• Multiple screens provide full manual
control over "Schedule", "Playlists",
"Content", "Migrate", "Load", and
"Feature Resolve"
• Schedule can also be viewed in
advance
Dimensions
KODAK Theatre Management System
• 2U Rack Unit
• Width: 44.43 cm (17.5 in.);
• Depth
74.4 cm (29.31 in);
• Height 8.64
cm (3.4 in)
• Weight: 23 kg (50.71 lb)
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Dimensions
Optional Network Attached Storage
(NAS)
• 4U Rack Unit
• Width: 43.9 cm (17.28 in.);
• Depth
74.99 cm (29.52 in);
• Height 17.5
cm (6.89 in)
• Weight: 77 kg (170 lb)
DCI compliance
Standards compliance is a moving
target. It is our intent to make the
KODAK Theatre Management System
fully conform to DCI specifi cations,
but until SMPTE publishes the
standards and independent agencies
provide certifi cation, no company or
products can claim full compliance.
Kodak has extensive experience in
network solutions for digital cinema on
thousands of screens, delivering flawless
presentations, on a regular basis, whilst
working with a range of exhibitors,
connecting to a variety of ticketing
and automation systems. We've
proven our systems' dependability in
the highly-demanding environment
of working cinemas; we've proven our
systems' adaptability through regular
software updates; and we've proven
our company's responsiveness through
providing complete solutions, backed by
full service and support, on a worldwide
basis.
As you build your business for your digital
future, go with a partner you can depend
on today and tomorrow. That partner is Kodak.
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