India Dismisses Market-Abuse Complaint Against U.S. Studios’ Digital Cinema Venture

April 27, 2015, 4:00 AM UTC

The Competition Commission of India April 22 said a complaint against top multinational motion picture studios had failed to establish prima facie market dominance and abuse with regard to their joint venture known as Digital Cinema Initiatives, or DCI.

DCI is an architecture that ensures high-picture quality but requires conformance from distributors, exhibitors, studios, vendors, and software and equipment manufacturers.

The complainant is Mumbai-based K Sera Sera Digital Cinema Pvt. Ltd., an Indian digital cinema service provider with projectors and servers installed and connected to over 300 movie theaters across India.

K Sera Sera had filed a complaint (Case No. ...

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