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Topic: Swank Motion Pictures encourages non-theatricals to switch to Swank Cinema Player
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John Hawkinson
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From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-20-2008 09:08 PM
Speed of the internet connection doesn't matter. The only realtime internet aspect is the cryptographic key exchange / authorization handshake, which doesn't take any bandwidth. The web page disucces shipping hard drives, as well.
For me, this is bad because it is yet another case of taking the control out of the hands of exhibitors (even incompetent ones, if they're showing VHS...). I also wonder how bulletproof Swank's system and software could possibly be, and would tend to fear for the worst, like it breaking down at the worst possible moment.
It also seems unreasonable to expend any money on a system that only supports standard definition, especially with no quality guarantees. Will it look like VHS, or will it look like DigiBeta? [somewhere in-between, of course.]
--jhawk
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