Cinema Standard Measurement System

Vidikron's parent company, Runco International, has carefully developed a full set of specification standards for our video projectors that is founded upon more realistic, and easier to understand criteria for expressing the light output or brightness capability of a display device, as well as its contrast ratio. This criteria was developed based on the actual experience one has in a movie theater. This provides the consumer with an objective reference point to compare specifications with what they are accustomed to seeing in the movie theater, assisting them in determining what a projector's displayed image might look like once installed in their home.

Vidikron has adopted these specification standards, known as "Cinema Standards Measurement System", or CSMS™. In the links to the right, we have provided you with discussions and evaluations of the CSMS system by leading industry experts, including Gary Reber, Editor-in-Chief of Widescreen Review Magazine, and Anthony Grimani, President of Performance Media Industries and a longtime technical expert with Lucasfilm's THX Division. We hope you find this information, and the CSMS system to be a positive contibution to assisting consumers in sorting through the "numbers competition" and having a more useful tool in evaluating video products.