DIGITAL PROJECTION INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SCREENING OF THE WORLD'S FIRST INTEGRATED AND COMPACT 2K x 1K RESOLUTION DLP CINEMA™ PROJECTOR

MANCHESTER, UK, (March 06, 2004) – Digital Projection International (DPI), an Emmy® Award-winning manufacturer of high-performance projection systems, is proud to announce the first UK commercial sale and screening of a digital film on the iS15-2K. This is the world's first DLP Cinema™ electronics in a fully-integrated compact chassis.

The screenings are taking place at the Birmingham Screen Festival in the UK from the 04 - 11 March 2004. The project came to fruition after an extensive market trial by Arts Alliance Media in the UK Digital Cinema market and culminated in the purchase of these units.

Arts Alliance Media are providing the Birmingham Screen Festival with a full digital cinema service including provision of the iS15-2K digital cinema projector. This iS15-2K is being supported by a Digital Projection iS10 digital cinema projector and will be used in conjunction with two digital cinema servers.

According to Thomas Hoegh, CEO of Arts Alliance Media, "AA Media are committed to ensuring the UK is at the cutting edge of the digital cinema industry and we are delighted to have the first commercial 2K digital cinema projector in the country."

David Monk, VP TI Europe, commented, "We are very pleased to see that AA Media are pushing forward with digital movie presentation and choosing to make the best and latest technology available to audiences in the independent sector. Digital technology offers unsurpassed consistenecy and allows a broader spectrum of content to be exhibited to film-goers."

The Birmingham Screen Festival is showing a number of films digitally, including Finding Nemo, Modern Times, Red, White and Blues and Feel Like Going Home.

Tony Jones, Director of the Birmingham Screen Festival and Founder of City Screen, said, "Having a high quality digital cinema projector is essential in this day and age, when many films are submitted to festivals in a digital format. Birmingham is delighted to showcase the first UK screenings on a 2K projector."

DPI's delivery of the iS15-2K continues the trend of the company being the first-to-market with the most technologically-advanced DLP Cinema™ projectors. DPI was the first to offer an integrated 1.3 million pixel DLP Cinema™ projector, the iS10 in 1999. This was followed by the world's first 2K, console-based DLP Cinema™ projector, the cS25 and in December 2003 the world's first 2K integrated unit, the iS15. This latest iS15-2K will be based at The Other Cinema, in Soho, London.