Dolby Laboratories IMS2000 - Chapter 4 IMS2000 Overview; IMS2000 Key Features and Functions

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IMS2000 Installation and User’s Manual
IMS.OM.004730.DRM Issue 3
Chapt er 4 IMS2000 Overview
The IMS2000 is a Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) compliant playback system that plays
movies and trailer packages in Material eXchange Format (MXF) at up to 500 megabits
per second (Mbps) when installed in a Digital Light Processing (DLP) Series 2 projector.
The IMS2000 supports the highest JPEG 2000 decoding formats including 4K, 12-bit 4:4:4,
and 10-bit 4:2:2 for 2D and 3D high frame rate (HFR) applications. In addition, it utilizes
High-Definition Multimedia Interface™ (HDMI™) to play alternative content and live
streams. Content is stored on an onboard RAID5 array.
You control the IMS2000 through an Ethernet interface using a web-based version of
CineLister, TMS2000, or a third-party theatre management system that supports Dolby
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playback systems. The system ingests content through USB, eSATA, or Ethernet.
4.1 IMS2000 Key Features and Functions
Following are the IMS2000 key features and functions:
• Single-board solution (Screen Management System [SMS] and Integrated Media
Block [IMB] on a single board)
• High-quality storage
• Support for local storage
• HDMI input
• Dolby Atmos
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• Web-based interface
• Support for access products (Fidelio and CaptiView)
• Ingest through eSATA, USB 2.0 and 3.0, or Ethernet
• Live support (Ethernet stream, MPEG-2, H.264, and SMPTE 421M [VC-1] up to 50
Mbps)
• Scaler and deinterlacer included
• General purpose input and output ports (GPIO): Four inputs and six outputs
• Linear timecode (LTC) output port (See Section 19.1)
• Serial Digital Interface (SDI) input ports support the following 3D mappings:
• Dual stream
• Side by side
• Top/bottom