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Topic: Content delivery via Broadband/Satellite vs Hard Drive Delivery
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 10-26-2016 12:26 PM
For a typical feature DCP of 150GB, you'd be looking at 19 hours 53 minutes to download at 20 Mbit/s, and 9'56" at 40.
Whether that is viable depends on a number of factors. I'd suggest that the most important ones are as follows.
1 - Is the broadband connection an "all you can eat" one, or will you be charged per megabyte? If the latter, it could get pretty expensive. In broader terms, you'll probably want to establish how much downloading your DCPs will cost you relative to having drives shipped at present.
2 - Is the 20 or 40 Mbit/s speed reliable and consistent, or is the reality that you will only actually get that once in a blue moon and when no-one else on the island is trying to use the Internet?
3 - How many DCPs will you need to download, and will they be available to download in good enough time?
4 - Will the software being used to manage the downloading enable you to resume an interrupted download mid-flow, or, if a download fails for some reason 149 gigabytes in, you have to start from scratch?
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Carsten Kurz
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From: Cologne, NRW, Germany
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted 10-26-2016 06:04 PM
The trouble is, you won't be getting a considerable amount of content with one delivery service. However, as you describe the geographic and transport situation, you should probably get your foot into electronic distribution anyway.
I did test electronic delivery initially with a 16MBit connection, it took a while to get the content, but I didn't care, since there is usually ample time between booking/delivery and show time. Now we have a 200Mbit Gofilex line. As their gear is on 24/7 and operates in the background, you just don't care wether it takes 4 hours or 20 hours to receive your content. But do get the 40MBit line.
In most parts of europe, these services and gear come for free, you pay for the broadband and electricity, they pay for everything else (Gofilex actually even pays for a dedicated high speed broadband connection). I suggest you try to get more than one service working at your location. Normally, I'd suggest you wait until the market has been consolidated and there are less players around, but in your case, you should try to get what you can, that also means satellite (which may offer some live alternative content opportunities as well).
There are services/gear/protocol that make sure you get your content 100% correct. Don't trust anyone who suggests you should download features through your internet browser. That's okay for trailers, but not for features.
There was an edition of cinema technology magazine dealing with electronic distribution a while ago. You should try to get a copy (PDF) from Jim Slater. It dealt mostly with the situation in UK and europe, so, it should be an interesting read for you.
- Carsten
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