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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. There's already movie distribution via satellite.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's called television.

  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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