UK to Build Network of 150 Digital Cinemas

mikael writes "According to this article at the BBC, a network of 250 digital screens in 150 cinemas across the country is being planned. Each film is losslessly compressed from 1 Terabyte down to 100 Gigabytes and encrypted onto a portable hard disk drive with a key unique to each cinema, which is then delivered to the cinema. Each cinema projector will be capable of showing films at resolutions of 2048 x 1080 pixels. "The key benefit is the distribution and screening of documentaries, British and foreign language films, as making a digital copy is considerably cheaper than spending over £1500 pounds to make a copy of a single film". Other benefits include better picture quality and the ability to show more films each day." The UK Film Council has a brief overview of the project as well.

Comments

Now how long

[ICECommander]

will a 100GB digital to DivX rip take?

Re:The real question

[TheRaven64]

A couple of hours after the projectionist has finished recompressing it as MPEG-4 (maybe H.264), and published the .torrent, I would imagine...

Camcorder...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean I won't need my camcorder anymore?