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Topic: Digital Projection closer than we thought?
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Andrew McCrea
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-29-2004 01:31 PM
Last night when I attended a screening of "Darkness" I grabbed a copy of FAMOUS magazine and FAMOUS KIDZ, just for some reading material before the show. I was also actually surprised how this Famous Players presentation had no scratches, no dirt, no bad splices- no imperfections whatsoever (This theatre especially is known for destroying every print to the point where they should have paid you to come in the door, but hey, they've got a lightshow in the lobby so its all good).
Anyways, back to my story, I started flipping through Famous Kidz and there was an article ("behind the scenes- WHAT DO YOU DO") about looking for your first job. They interviewed several minimum wage workers at the Paramount theatre in downtown Toronto.
On the second page of this article, there's a picture of a console and projector and a shelf with many film cans on it. It is accompanied by this blurb: "DID YOU KNOW... that in as little as seven years many theatres might not be dealing with reels of film anymore? Eventually, movies will be stored digitally on DVDs, which will be a lot easier to copy, and a lot lighter to carry around. Right now, the film for an average movie comes in two big, heavy octagonal metal cases - and each one weighs about 35 pounds!"
Is the end of film actually approaching us that quickly? Where did they get that figure of seven years?
Any comments?
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Monte L Fullmer
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Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 12-30-2004 02:11 AM
..and it seens like this topic was hashed over on other threads of the complexity, the cost, the reliability,the demand, et.al. of digital projection.
Let the rich and the famous have their digital projection devices-who can shell out millions for a medium that changes like our underwear.
Film, in any size of MM is here to stay, for it has proven itself of being 100% reliable. So why make the changes?
It'd be generations for digital to finally take over the photographic film presentation industry. And by then, we'd all be "pushing up dandelions."
So, what's the BFD in getting all worked up about this?
-thx Monte
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