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."

Comments

Re:That's not news

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't you think it would be great if Slashdot authors started reading their own website to see what their co-authors are posting?

Thankfully

[Altima(BoB)]

Thankfully our repeats are already totally digital.

Anyhow, here's something I wanted to bring up in the other thread but as too lazy to do. It says that the new projectors download digital copies of the films from the movie industry. That's all well and good, but my favorite cinemas here in Dublin, the awesome IFI in Temple Bar and the huge megaplex UGC are both my favorites because they show independant and foreign films. In the case of the IFI, that's all they show, alongside older films that you won't see in the cinema anywhere else.

So what I'm wondering is how would something like Battle of Algiers or OldBoy be shown in Ireland if it's all digital? I actually don't think the IFI is part of this whole all-digital scheme and I'm glad they're not, mainstream cinema holds only the smallest interest for me, and I can't help but see this digital system as anything other than the big studios further consolidating their culture monopoly...

I'm not one to complain usually

[youngerpants]

But this is getting silly

1) Check for DUPES
2) If you link to a site, please include the coral link (this can be done programatically!)
3) If you link to a file, add a torrent (this is for the submitters, not the editors)
4) I have heard that joke before; lets see if anyone has something interesting to say

Karma be dammed, but this dupe really pissed me off

Re:I'm not one to complain usually

[Anonymous Coward]

I would do all those things if I'd knew there's a big chance of my sotry getting posted. Instead I write a lengthy (hopefully well written) article and think hard how to summarize the whole story into a news article, just so 20 out of 21 stories get rejected. And then the same story is posted after some hours (or days) written like crap with pure FUD in the news article.

I'm not trolling as I don't have anything to do with this site, but I try to post a story if I see one that I think would be interesting for a discussion by the Slashdot community. But I'm pissed how editors pick out stories, when I write about the same thing as someone else and he gets accepted although it was written like shit compared to mine.

I admit, this doesn't happen all the time, but too many times already.

Some time ago, I stoped carying and I just copy/paste the news item from some other site and add links. And *shock* sometimes it gets approved.

The other funny thing is how you sumbit a story and it's rejected and you submit _the same text_ after it has been rejected and it's approved.

Slashdot quality is going downhill.

I am really tired of this

[zbuffered]

First of all, about 60% of /. stories are 2-day-old posts on either Gizmodo, Engadget, Lifehacker, or Hack-A-Day. I doubt /. editors even realize this, because they obviously don't get "out" very much.

But seriously. The dupes are out of control. It takes 10 minutes a day, max, to scan the headlines OF THE SITE YOUR JOB IT IS TO EDIT. Timothy obviously does not read this site. So WTF? Could we possibly get an editor that takes his job seriously?

Re:About dupes

[10Ghz]

Yes, I complain about others who complain. Difference is that the dup-whiners complain all the time. Take my message as constructive criticism: instead of posting 50th message saying "this is a dupe!", why not let it be? What are you guys hoping to accomplish by posting 50 messages saying "this is a dupe!". Do you think I didn't notice the first 49 similar messages? Instead of wasting your time (and mine, if I'm trying to find some relevant comments in the midst of "another dupe!"-messages) whining about the dupe, simply ignore it. You are not required to read all articles on /. you know. Simply ignore the dupes, and your life will be much easier.

But no! Some people get their panties in a bunch and start their crusade of whining. It's like they are mortally offended every time /. posts a dupe.

Re:About dupes

[Baramin]

People probably think that each time a dupe is posted, it takes the spot of a fresh and interesting news they'd enjoy reading and commenting.

Most whiners need to realize that if dupes were perfectly filtered by the editors, it wouldn't more more news.

bottom line : a dupe doesn't take a "new news" spot.

So that makes going to the cinema in Ireland...

[Goth Biker Babe]

...pointless.

Current resolutions for digital cinema are not as good as good HD TV. You should never underestimate the resolution of 35mm film.

Re:That's not news

[meatspray]

I have mixed feelings on this. That's about 40k/yr.

That's a damn nice chunk of change for say a tech savvy college student, But really not all that much to attract a technical professional which seems to be the standards base to which editors are held.

I guess location matters as well. I'm in the Baltimore cooridor where the 'average' tech salary is closer to 60k. Some places in California 40k would be near povery wouldn't it? If they were smart they'd only employ mid west college students.

Re:dupey dupe

[lousyd]

No, no, it's okay. It's when we start seeing Slashdot article announcing older Slashdot articles that we're really in trouble.