India's Bollywood Opts for Low-Cost Digital Cinema

Makarand writes "While Hollywood is yet to figure out who will pay for the costly $100,000 digital projectors required for the digital roll-out of films, the Mumbai (India) based film Industry (called Bollywood) is settling for cheaper projectors of a bit lesser quality available at one-third the price, to proceed with their digital roll-out. Industry officials call this cheaper version of the digital cinema the 'E-Cinema', in contrast to the 'D-Cinema' which Hollywood is waiting for. Over 1000 films are made each year in India and just 1 film in 12 makes a profit. Transporting conventional celluloid prints to remote towns gives video pirates plenty of time to copy and make prints. Digital cinema will cut down on piracy and help the industry to increase its profits."

Comments

Correction...

[ViaNRG]

It's only 10x easier to pirate the digital media, but it is 100x easier to seed the torrent =)

Re:I'm not sure

[MichaelSmith]

Besides, all those call center reps need a night out once in a while

If so I hope they tell the rest of us when it will be. I could use a night in once in a while

Of course, low budget cameras BUT

[Man in Spandex]

high budget microphones to hear their voices while singing every 2 minutes.

Rapsani: You killed my brother, how dare you then sleep with my sister!
Hajil: No, it was him Gandapana! Look, he's running away. Let's Sing!

Then you see 30 indians break into a dance while the evil killer is running away WHILE singing AND dancing.

I bet the stories in Bollywood movies are much more interesting than the stories of today's Hollywood movies, regardless of how much they sing and/or dance.

Kinds of Cinema

[carcosa30]

Do the terms E-Cinema and D-Cinema have anything to do with the fact that 99% of films that are coming out these days are B movies?

Re:Do you have any proof?

[Mateito]

Its pretty common in the movie business. Way back when the Mob had a lot of money in Cinema.

Mario Puzo wrote about it in The Godfather so it must be true.

Bollywood copy protection

[PsiPsiStar]

Bollywood has discovered a very effective method of preventing illegal copying of their films.
They make mostly Hindi musicals.