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Irish Cinema Set to Go Digital First

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-they-don't-need-to-ship-their-single-malts dept.

LocalisationDude writes "The BBC is reporting that Ireland will be the first country in the world to have their traditional 35mm film projectors replaced with digital projectors. An American company is installing digital projectors in 500 cinemas to replace the traditional film projectors. Cinemas using the technology will be able to download the latest releases to a computer server via satellite at a lower cost."

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  1. Piracy boom? by cypher_soundz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am i the only one who thinks that piracy quality will increase now?

    1. Re:Piracy boom? by Saven+Marek · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Cinemas using the technology will be able to download the
      > latest releases

      I'm thinking now there'll be 500 notices served on irish cinemas by the RIAA for movie downloading!

    2. Re:Piracy boom? by steeef · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, and don't forget the cigarette burns/reel change markers. Thanks to Fight Club, I notice them all the time.

      Wonder if they'll keep the recent addition of those damn red dot patterns to "thwart" pirates...

    3. Re:Piracy boom? by FireballFreddy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm... maybe they could build that into the digital ones. Flip a few bits at random each time it is played, so people who wait until 4 weeks after the movie comes out can get that warm-fuzzy popping and twitching-hair-on-the-screen effect.

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  2. In other news... by Zebra_X · · Score: 4, Funny

    Irish cinema operator busted for distribution of l33t 0-day filmz!

    1. Re:In other news... by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 3, Funny

      Cinema operator? Naah, think bigger.

      Digital system + trojan + bittorrent = "Irish cinema -projector- busted for distribution of 133t 0-day filmz!"

  3. Cinemas using the technology will be able ..... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 3, Funny

    to just download the torrent :)

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  4. Consider security... by irritus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you imagine how terrible this could go if they don't use adequate security? Someone could conceivably hack the source and replace a film with a horrific piece of fanfiction. Movies will now have a chance of not only being terrible, but not even the terrible movie you paid to see in the first place.

  5. The real goal by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Funny

    was to stop projectionists from emulating Tyler Durden's insertion of pr0n frames into family movies.

  6. Re:Why is it taking this long? by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny

    The major hurdle is that there are about 35,000 cinema projectors in the country that need to be converted to digital at about $100,000 a shot. Add in the cost of the satellites, storage, retrofit for data, etc. and the average multiplex is looking at an investment of well over $1,000,000. Sure, the investment will pay back in ease of distribution and whatnot, but where does the million come from? The studios sure aren't going to pay for it - the razor-thin margins they give back to the theaters are why popcorn costs $28 a pound. And theater owners know that Joe Public won't stand for a ticket price hike when most people wouldn't notice or appreciate the jump in quality.

    Basically it's a case of which comes first - the chicken or the egg? Or the cart before the horse. Except the chicken is a $100,000 digital projector and the horse is a $28 bucket of popcorn.

    And somehow the egg is Orrin Hatch.

  7. There'll be riots, you know. by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 4, Funny


    "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far aw -

    STREAMING...

  8. Re:will that mean.. by Swedentom · · Score: 2, Funny

    "cinemas could just stream the movies"

    ... BUFFERING ...
    ;-)

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  9. Re:Input by ThJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    609 kroner timen? Er du rusk?

  10. Re:SIGH: Another reason not to go to the cinema by cgenman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I have seen one digitally projected "film" (can we even call them that anymore?) and I will never see one again. It was HORRIBLE.

    Yeah, and I hear Episode 3 isn't much better.

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