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Irish Movie Theatres Go Digital

Posted by timothy on from the no-snakes-and-no-film dept.

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."

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  1. Re:That's not news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  2. Thankfully by Altima(BoB) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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...

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  3. I'm not one to complain usually by youngerpants · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

    1. Re:I'm not one to complain usually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

  4. I am really tired of this by zbuffered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

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