Christie (company)

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Christie Digital Systems, Inc.
Type	Private company
Founded	1929
Headquarters	Kitchener, Ontario, Canada & Cypress, California
Key people	Jack Kline, President & COO USA Gerry Remers, President & COO Canada
Industry	Display technology
Products	CRT, LCD and DLP projectors
Employees	751 (2006)
Website	www.christiedigital.com

Christie Digital Systems, Inc. is a privately held company that manufactures projectors, most notably LCD and DLP digital cinema projectors. As of 2005, Christie's projectors are used on more digital screens worldwide than any other licensee. In 2007, Christie was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine, the only entertainment products manufacturing company to receive this honour.^[1]

Christie was originally and remains a manufacturer of 35mm film projectors, lamphouses, lamp consoles, and film platter systems as well as an importer of Japanese-made xenon bulbs before acquiring the Kitchener, Ontario-based digital projector business from Electrohome and expanding the line into the new field of digital cinema projectors based on Texas Instruments DLP technology. It is now one of the leading makers of D-Cinema projectors.