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Irish Movie Theatres Go Digital
Draoi writes "ElectricNews is reporting that Irish movie theatres are to be the first in the world to switch from old 35mm media to a completely digital format. New movies are to be delivered via satellite which, I'm sure, will bring up security issues of its own."
Looks dupey...
What is this some kind of irish joke?
We had that story three days ago: here...
I know that they does this in sweden already. Maybe not all movies on all theatres though, but the-as-close-to-monopoly-as-possible-company, SF, does it quite a bit.
The 'Insightful' moderation of parent really made it for me.
Ireland is not a third world country. In fact Ireland is one of the wealthiest in Europe. And if you RTFA you would see why Ireland has been chosen for this project.
Never touch an Irish man's Guinness!@#
Yes, this probably isn't the correct forum for this but I subscribe to Slashdot and have been a faithful follower for too many years ... when I see a pre-release dupe I send an email to the on-call editor, sometimes it works to get the story banished before the rest of the world sees it (and the ridicule starts) ... sent an email about this story but it seems that it wasn't effective ... power to the peer review!
Just because a company called "Digital Cinema Limited" had its first customer doesn't mean that customer is now the "first country in the world to have completely digital cinema."
Previous comments above have noted that digital cinemas have existed in other countries since 2004. A local cinema in Singapore reported that they were converting to digital cinemas as early as 2003. I highly doubt they're the only ones, too.
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