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Bhavanashi Ramakrishna
It's a case of small thinking big, again; stretching out to a 'three-dimensional' vision of the 'home' territory as well as the global technology scape. Come November - as the advocates of the new, qualified vision in Singapore's entertainment industry say - the tiny Asian city-state would unveil what most countries, aggressive in the business, couldn't ideate. A 3D media hub for the globe! TW's special feature this time presents a perspective. A little over four years ago, Theatre World brought out a cover feature titled Singapore's Digiport- that spoke about the country's ambitious vision to set up what it called the 'digital exchange.' Conceptualised to play a virtual exchange - on the lines of a typical stock exchange - where media content creators, and distributors from across the globe converge and trade, the digital entity aimed at networking the entire entertainment world even as it helps its domestic industry take its share. (Read Theatre World - June 2004)
Now, that the world of entertainment entered yet another revolutionary cycle, taking the three-dimensional hype - call it 3D digital - the tiny Asian city-State has unveiled yet another grand vision that aims at creating still bigger, 'world's first' national 3D cinema structure. Look at this: •
Come November - from 19-23 November - Media Development Authority (MDA), and Information Development Authority (IDA), together will organise the world's first 3D movie festival
The initiative was part of a broad, multi-tasked 'Connected Singapore' programme - as it was then called - was apparently THE 3DX(PLOSION) launched riding high on the • Worlds’ first 3D movie Festival wave of digital entertainment that was beginning to change • A ten-year-long annual fete the contours of global cinema • All the cinemas to be 3D digital entertainment domain. Taking • Government grant for Upgrade the hype from the West into its stride, the country also became • Take-off to the 3D space by November home to the world's first full 2K multiplex (chain).
• All the cinemas, if not the all the screens in the country, to be 3D digitally equipped before date so as to play host to the four-day international festival What's more, the two Singapore government concerns would organise the annual festival for a period of 10 years consecutively. Further, they will fund the 3D digitisation exercise for all the September 2008
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