The technical expertise gained in over seventy years building cinema equipment is apparent in the variety of our products. Our projectors and accessories cover all applications from normal change-over operation to the fully automated performance of a complete program, to projection equipment for a myriad of special formats. These include different projection speeds including 30 and 60 frames per second as well as 180º and 360º projection systems. Below are just a few highlights:

• The DP-70 Universal 35/70 projector is introduced in 1955 and awarded the Scientific and Engineering Oscar® in 1962

• The DP-75 included devices to detect which gauge film was threaded and whether or not the magnetic sound head was in use to automatically control the sound system.

  
  Solo-Automatic Projector

• The Solo-Automatic projector was introduced at Photokina in 1963 heralding a new era of automation in the cinema.

• Kinoton was a pacesetter in automation, introducing the industry's most widely distributed Matrix programmer. Today we provide many automation systems, including ones that control all performances in a Multiplex theater from a single PC terminal.

• Kinoton invented the first platter in the sixties, and receives the Scientific and Engineering Oscar® in 1987

• In the 1970's, Kinoton introduced the FP 30 ST "studio" projector. This was essentially a standard FP 30 equipped with a special intermittent dubbed the "Kinoton Cross". When activated by a solenoid, the movement "shifted gears" so as to directly connect the intermittent sprocket to the constant speed input shaft. This allowed extremely fast through-the-gate wind and rewind. Built-in electronics synchronized the shifting action with the film's pausing between movements.

• The beginning of true high quality electronic projection was Kinoton's electro-pneumatic MC series projection equipment. The MC series integrated mechanical and electronic systems in such a way that film could be run forward through the intermittent and yet reverse in high-speed (bypassing the intermittent) to a specific frame and restart seamlessly. For the first time, a projector had been specifically designed to be controlled by a computer. In the early 80's an advanced model, the MC II, was introduced.

• The FP 30/38EC studio projector is introduced in 1989 and awarded the Scientific and Engineering Oscar® in 2003. These are fully electronic machines that use a servo-motor intermittent, and were the first electronic projectors to exceed the stability of traditional mechanical intermittent machines. They still are being installed in studios worldwide, and are clearly the standard-bearer in that demanding arena, where quality and reliability are the only considerations.

• Jump correcting software is released for the E-series, allowing the “tuning out” of vertical picture movement artifacts.

• 1996 saw the introduction of the FP-30E the first of the E series cinema projectors, which uses a simplified microprocessor control scheme to offer most of the same improvements derived from the EC projectors. This allowed the quality and reliability of the electronic projector to be affordable to cinemas.

• SP-75E Special Venue and Large Format projectors, further refine the E series drive with low-mass, water-cooled intermittent motors capable of handling 70mm films with 10 perforation per frame pull-down.

• The most recent E series development is the MP-75E multi-format projector that runs 435, 570 and 870 films at the touch of a switch. It is the only 3 format projector in the world.