![]() ![]() It plays back DVD-ROM titles, Video CDs and Super Video CDs, DVD images on your hard disk (Video_TS folders), and even individual video files, such as MP4 movies, residing on your hard disk. You can also open it from the Start menu or Creator Home screen, of course.ĬinePlayer can handle much more than just DVD-Video discs, however. When you install CinePlayer, you have the option to make it your default DVD player, so that it will open automatically when you insert a DVD-Video disc. ![]() Here's an overview of some of CinePlayer Surround's key features. With CinePlayer Surround you can: view DVDs on your PC in 5.1- or 6.1-channel Dolby Digital surround sound use Pro Logic to transform a 2-channel source into 4-channel surround sound play back DVD slide shows, Video CDs and hard disk-based video files play special PC-based interactive content not available on set-top players listen to virtual surround sound through any headphones with Dolby Headphone support gain control over DVD aspect ratios for use with any projector or monitor and auto-resume playback of a DVD at the point you left off! ![]() The most complete DVD player available goes far beyond the Windows Media Player. They recently concluded a successful festival of CinePlays in Mumbai and are now all set to screen a CinePlay - Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like A Man - for the first time in Pune.If you view DVDs on your PC, or use your PC as a video source for your home theater system, you need CinePlayer Surround. “We’re a friend of theatre, and wish to only aide the medium,” he maintains. He urges that they’re not trying to compete with the medium of theatre. We’re also working on regional plays, which we’re adding subtitles to, so as to break the language barrier,” Subodh informs. “However, we’re not curators here - anybody who has a compelling story to tell can come to us and we’ll be happy to convert their play. The duo wishes to convert all the classics by Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, and Girish Karnad, among others into CinePlays. It also does the job of archiving iconic plays, allowing future generations to experience these performances. Most importantly, we don’t shoot the play in a studio, but on a stage over a period of seven days, the way we would shoot any short film,” Subodh explains.ĬinePlay allows stories from theatre to break the constraints of economics, geography, language and accessibility and extends its influence and reach by creating a self-sustaining financial model. A CinePlay can take you to many of the best seats in the auditorium! We don’t change the script of any play we use tricks like enhancing the lights, background score etc. “When you’re watching a live play, you experience it in a uni-dimensional form, from where you’re sitting. Images have the power to convey a lot of things over the stage. The camera, on the other hand, is more intimate. Theatre has a live audience so actors need louder projection through over-thetop gesticulations. Individually, the energies required for both these mediums are different. The idea of CinePlays - India’s first celluloid experience of Indian theatre and a new language of storytelling - is to make theatre more accessible and give it a digital avatar. So we thought - why not add a lot of cinematic elements to the recording?” says Subodh. You can’t just superimpose one on the other without modifying it. “The grammar of the big screen is very different from that of theatre and the stage. So they started wondering if the solution lay in recording plays in such a way that the audience is not left with an incomplete feeling - which is how they came up with the idea of CinePlays. This made us truly realise how geographically locked theatre is - travel is expensive and coordinating the dates of everyone involved in the production is a mammoth task in itself,” says Subodh. It was physically impossible to give dates to every city and location and we ended up declining more shows than accepting. “It so happened that the play was so successful that we were getting called to perform many more shows than we could manage. One: it kicked off the acting career of industrialist Subodh Maskara and two: it inspired the concept of CinePlays that husband-wife duo Subodh and Nandita Das is currently working on popularising. By: Mrunmayi Ainapure CinePlay will debut in the city with the screening of Mahesh Dattani’s play, Dance Like A Man Between the Lines, a contemporary play set in urban India launched a few years ago, was a landmark project in the world of Indian theatre for two reasons. ![]()
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