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Digital Cinema Not Quite There Yet
An anonymous reader writes "A Reuters article explains how, in some ways, the digital future of movie theatres isn't quite here yet. Despite the push for new technology in the projection booth, theaters have been slow to adopt the new and expensive gear." From the article: " Many in the movie industry hope digital cinema will help revive theater attendance, which fell 9 percent in 2005 in the United States. The studios stand to save about $1 billion a year in print distribution costs because they will be shipping digital movies via computer hard drives, satellite and broadband cable, versus old celluloid canisters. But digital deployment is expensive at about $100,000 per screen, and while the studios agreed to foot most of the bill, current equipment does not meet all the technology standards set by the industry."
Despite the expensive tickets and overpriced food, crying babies, restless children, chatty couples, cell phones going off, people lighting up the room checking their e-mail on their Blackberries, and every other clichéd movie theater problem on the tip of every stand-up comedian's tongue, I say to myself: "I could put up with all of this if only the film projector was digital."
It would be funny if the anti-piracy ads actually increased awareness of piracy in the negative way, and people who would otherwise have gone to the theatres and paid to see movies realize they can pay for a broadband connection and get all the movies they want.
What sound do people on rollercoasters make? Hint: it's not Xbox 360.
What is this "going to the movies" thing? Is that where you go to someone's house and watch a movie?
Great. Can you reword this post one more time and post it again?
public media-consumation-in-a-dark-room venture will develop
:^)
We already have that but the floors are always sticky and I go through boatloads of quarters...
With a 2 liter costing about $1.50, that's still quite a bargain.
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