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The Qube Mini continues to provide the ultimate combination of quality, reliability, ease-of-use, security and flexibility that are the hallmark of the Qube Cinema product line. And it uses the exact same software as the rest of the Qube Cinema line. Designed from the ground up to operate in mission-critical applications, the architecture of the Qube Mini system has been conceived with the future in mind. Being entirely software based allows the Qube Mini system to leverage developments in the computer industry to provide a format independent, powerful and flexible product at a price point that makes it practical for many different applications.

The Qube Mini Digital Cinema Server is a powerful solution for high definition cinema in alternative venues and for pre-show applications in a quiet, reliable, miniature package. A wired Qube Remote Panel provides familiar operational controls such as Play, Pause and Stop along with an LCD Display and Menu Keys that - unlike more complex interfaces such as touch-screens or the mouse and keyboard - make the user feel instantly comfortable with the system.

The second generation Qube software is database driven and has a flexible core media architecture that can work with multiple copies of picture, sound, subtitling and metadata files stored on local and shared central storage systems. Qube Cinema is based on the modular Microsoft Windows XP^TM Embedded Operating System to maximize reliability and security while deriving benefit from Microsoft's powerful DirectShow^TM architecture.

Qube Mini has a DVI picture output and stereo analog and 5.1 Surround Sound AC3 digital audio outputs. The system is standards-based and designed for interoperability. It utilizes DCI specified MXF containers with 128-bit AES encryption for media and xml for compositions and shows. RSA encryption is utilized for keys.

The base system handles high bit-rate MPEG 2 and Windows Media 9 pictures and is expandable with additional software codecs. Audio can be uncompressed 16 bit or 24 bit at 48 KHz and 96 KHz or Windows Media 9. Whatever the content, Qube Mini has the flexibility to support it all.

Qube Mini supports subtitling in the TI CineCanvas^TM file format and subtitles are internally rendered for display along with the picture using high quality fonts.

Media transport is possible using portable USB-2 or 1394a/b hard drives, high-speed data lines and satellite multicast transmissions.

Qube Mini Servers can manage media completely automatically by deleting older, unused media when additional space is required to ingest new media. This again makes the system entirely automatic in operation and considerably simplifies user operations while reducing the possibility of human-error.

Qube Mini systems can be managed and operated locally and remotely via a powerful web-based UI which shows status and, with the proper login credentials, allows transport control, scheduling, content ingest, key management as well as setup and maintenance. System logs can also be viewed over the web interface and are signed for verification of authenticity.

And Qube Mini is part of the Qube Cinema product-line, an entire suite of products that are required for a practical, commercially viable end-to-end implementation of Digital Cinema from a company that has proven expertise in managing complex technology transformations in traditional workflows, a company with a passion for cinema and a thorough understanding of film, video, audio and computer technology as well as the production, post-production and exhibition industries.