Automated DCI compliance test system for Digital Cinema Entities

CTP v1.0 was released in October 2007 from DCI to provide procedural guideline for compliance test on Digital Cinema Entities. It was designed to guarantee seamless interoperability and reliability between the entities of different vendors. But all CTP procedures require the test operator to be a professional engineer on the security and digital cinema technology. This paper is about an automated DCI compliance test system based on CTP v1.1 which provides very convenient testing environment even to non-professional test operator. It analyzes existing time consuming and manual oriented CTP test procedure, then proposes a new test process with automated method, detail architecture and functions of the proposed system. Finally it shows the implemented system and cross testing results with the commercial entities.