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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?
What would really be news is if Slashdot authors started reading their own website to see what their co-authors are posting.
In addition, what would really be news is if Slashdot authors started reading their own website to see what their co-authors are posting.
But then also, what would really be news is if Slashdot authors started reading their own website to see what their co-authors are posting.
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Seriously guys, there's been 6 in a row. You're duping comments now.
The screen cursors are made up of pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, blue diamonds, purple horseshoes and red balloons.
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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But this is getting silly
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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
We'll take it from there.
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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Oh great. Here comes an era of pixelated movies, snatchy sound and 'soory this movie cannot be shwona t this time due to a technical problem'.
I was away on vacation three days ago and didn't read slashdot. I'm sorry, this was all my fault. The kind folks at Slashdot knew that this would be the kind of story I'd be interested in, so they decided to post it again for my benefit. I'm deeply sorry.
I'm also sorry for Windows ME. That was my fault too.
And the DMCA, that was all me.
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And when I told that guy 14 years ago that it would be a keen idea to advertise his product by sending emails to everyone, regardless of they were interested, that was probably a bad idea too. I know it was a really bad idea to convince porn website opperators to say they were free, when they really weren't.
In all seriousness, I'm glad to see a country going all digital. I was initially against digital in the theaters, until I saw a screening of Starwars Part One in Burbank back in '99.
A few of the colors weren't right, and I noticed a few glitches, but generally I was impressed with it, and thought to myself "You know, this is going to be good when all film goes this way".
Oddly enough, almost 6 years later we still don't have digital projectors in the vast majority of America's theaters, and we have to look to Ireland for adopting the more innovative technology.
IRELAND!!!??? Now, I'm half Irish, but I'm pretty sure my ancestors fled Ireland because it was a smelly filthy drunken impoverished third world cesspool. How do they manage to get digital theaters while us Americans are still stuck with brand new mega-plexes popping up every time it rains still using the old analog 35mm projection?
I should not that I'm writing this post completely under the influence of Irish beer, so you'll understand if I'm a little flippant and surly.
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I believe the Imperial cinema in Copenhagen started showing digital movies in the fall of 2004. The first movie shown this way was 'I, Robot'. Disclaimer: No plug here, just posting for the record.
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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!
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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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