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Author Topic: Anyone had any experience of LANsat from MPS (UK) Ben Edwards Film Handler Posts: 17 From: BRISTOL, CITY OF BRISTOL,ENGLAND Registered: Apr 2014 posted 04-30-2015 06:54 AM                        I am involved with a small independent in the UK. We have been contacted by MPS offering us a LANsat server/package to enable us to download DCPs and trailers. It is free of charge and includes Loan of an 18TB LANsat server Installation of the LANsat Loan of a satellite dish for use of LANsat delivery Installation of the satellite dish 24hrs 7 days a week content delivery support Anyone using this, sounds great but wondered if there is a downside. Ben  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 04-30-2015 09:07 AM                     Hmm, downside...? From the latest edition of 'Cinema Technology Magazine': 'The cinema is well equipped with modern distribution kit. Nick said that about 50% of the films are still coming to the cinema on hard drives, but that proportion is dropping fast. A look at the racks showed kit from LANsat, Arqiva, dcinex, DeLuxe, Dolby and Unique - the company uses Pearl and Dean to provide its ads, via the Unique system.' - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Ben Edwards Film Handler Posts: 17 From: BRISTOL, CITY OF BRISTOL,ENGLAND Registered: Apr 2014 posted 04-30-2015 09:23 AM                        We don't play ads, just trailers. Will see if we have to.  |  IP: Logged Cathal Griffin Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Galway, Ireland Registered: Feb 2009 posted 04-30-2015 11:54 AM                        We've been using one for about 6 months. We have the Unique box as well. We did have the Deluxe Connect system but they've killed that project and taken the equipment back. The LANsat is a really nice piece of kit. We probably get 30-40% of our features through it. You can have them push the content onto your servers or pull it using FTP. It certainly has dropped our delivery costs.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 04-30-2015 03:54 PM                     My focus wasn't on ads - I should have snipped that last part. Of course you don't have to play ads just because you install one of these boxes. My focus was on having 6 different 'boxes' running in the booth, yet still receiving 50% of their content on discs. I know cinemas in germany with a satellite box, and all they received in over a year was some trailers... - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-30-2015 04:05 PM                     My nearest customer told me his transport bill dropped by £200 per month after I installed the Lansat. It's a good box, more and more distributors seem to be signing up with it. The Unique box is only 2Tb and only really for ads. You're also getting a satellite receiver plus LMS storage which you can use.  |  IP: Logged Nick Anton Film Handler Posts: 1 From: Portlaoise, Laois/ Ireland Registered: Apr 2015 posted 04-30-2015 04:09 PM                        I just installed one today in our place. It seems to be the way to go and should def cut down transport costs. I'm testing the satellite side of it tomorrow…we shall see.  |  IP: Logged Philip Jones Film Handler Posts: 90 From: England Registered: Dec 2011 posted 04-30-2015 04:48 PM                     We've had one for about 18 months and have no complaints at all. We get just under half of our films delivered to it as well as a lot of trailers. It is also a satellite receiver so we use it for the live shows and it can record these as well. We also have the Unique box for ads and they have just started doing Disney's feature films as well which is good. We did have a Deluxe Connect but as was posted above, they have stopped that now. It was very under utilised when it was in there - only ever had about 4 films delivered in a year. It's just a shame that the distributors can't sort themselves out so nothing gets sent on hard drive anymore, thus saving us all transport costs.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 04-30-2015 04:49 PM                     Our transport cost dropped from 1200€ to 250€ after we went digital. Now with 5 boxes running 24/7 and still getting lots of discs, cost for electricity will eat potential savings I guess. I'm afraid that we will need to install all this gear for a few years and then wait for most of them to drop out one by one until one or two have eaten the others and stay. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-01-2015 05:07 PM                     Could one of the downsides (maybe the only one) of broadband delivery be receiving a more compressed version of the DCP? I know that in some countries some distributions create a special, more compressed, DCP for satellite/broadband distribution. Has anybody ever compared the LANsat/Deluxe/whatever version with the regular DCP stored on an HDD?  |  IP: Logged Ben Edwards Film Handler Posts: 17 From: BRISTOL, CITY OF BRISTOL,ENGLAND Registered: Apr 2014 posted 05-03-2015 10:17 AM                        Thanks everybody, lots of useful replies. In terms of lower quality DCPs being sent the current size of the HD ones is well within overnight transfer. Maybe is was something that was done in past when connections were not as fat. Ben  |  IP: Logged

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