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Movie Distribution Via Satellite

Posted by michael on from the your-download-is-3%-complete dept.

mnewton32 writes "An article in the Vancouver Sun briefly detailed the first satellite-based distribution of a major Hollywood movie. It will be shown on 115 screens at AMC theaters in 27 markets. How long before we can download it on eMule?"

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  1. Re:NEI by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Or someone on the inside could get it *BEFORE* it's sent out over the link - and before any watermarks or DRM are put in."

    Well, to be fair, that possibility exists in a broader proportion right now. Movies these days are edited digitally. I'm oversimplifying quite a bit here, but somebody at the movie studio could wander in, hit 'Export to AVI', and drum their fingers for a while. I can't say I've ever heard of that happening. (err.. well that rang a bell... wasn't somebody at ILM busted for something like that? Help?) It's not clear to me, and maybe I'm just naieve, that incidents like that would rise noticably in the event of satellite distribution.

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  2. Re:About time.. by FTL · · Score: 5, Interesting
    > Well, everything is digital nowadays, but our cinemas are still running on good ole mechanical and analogue technology.

    Movies are already half digital. The X and Y of the pictures are analog. But the Z (time, made up of frames) is digital. Always has been. Most theaters now encode sound digitally too.

    In contrast, normal TV is half digital and half analog, but in a different way. Analog X, digital Y (discrete lines), digital Z (discrete frames) and analog sound.

    And sometimes technology advances from digital solutions to analog solutions. Look at rotary telephones (digital) which lost out to DTMF (analog).

    Weird huh?

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