Lack of Digital Screens for Attack of the Clones

spt writes: "CNN Entertainment has an article describing Lucas Arts' disappointment at the lack of digital screens available for Attack of the Clones. When the Phantom Menace was released, they were hoping that, by May 2002, there would be 2000 digital screens. That estimate dropped to 'several hundred', but the reality is that now there are only 20 digital screen in the U.S. Who has been lucky enough to see a digitally produced film in one of these 20? Is there enough of a benefit to think that more screens will be converted to digital projection?"

Comments

Re:20 theaters?

[irony nazi]

MPAA = Monopoly
Monopoly = No innovation
No innovation = behind schedule with digital screens

If we invoke the transitive property for relational operators, one sees that:
MPAA = behind schedule with digital screens

They will probably get digital screens about the time that iMax starts to become a threat to them. Either that or they will wait until legislation is passed banning all video-codecs from personal computers. Then they will promote digital films in theaters.

Either way, I'm pretty disgusted with the MPAA in general and this is to be expected.

Re:20 theaters?

[nexex]

ah, that means it runs Windows Embedded and who wants the movie to blue screen halfway through...and thats once Windows Media Player has finally loaded with all the bloat