The Future of Digital Cinema

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times recently had an interesting article on the future of digital cinema. The article talks mainly about the Digital Cinema Initiatives consortium (formed last year by a group of seven major studios) and its work towards establishing a set of standards for theatrical digital projection. DigitalCinemaMag also had an article back in February about the consortium's efforts which included a few more technical details."

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or poor film versions of movies?

[Heisenbug]

Frankly, I didn't come out of AotC saying "that was a poor movie, because it had only average picture resolution." I came out saying, "that was a poor movie, because the acting, dialogue and plot were laughably bad. The effects were cool, though."

You know how many virgin 70mm screenings I attend each year? Roughly zero, because they're not available anywhere near me. When digital takes over, I'll still attend zero, because there'll still be none available near me. It's a niche market, and it will still exist, as a niche market, with digital. Meanwhile, though, the theaters I go to all the time will showing films that look just as good as they used to look, and which will only improve.

And you know what? I'll still judge those movies based on what they contain, not how they were shot.

whore!

[MegaFur]

This is the saddest, most pathetic karma whoring I have ever seen. Usually I don't mind that posts with a tiny bit of info get bumped up to Score 5 because it is actually helping people. But this is just sick. What next? pr0n site password lists?