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The State of Digital Cinema

Posted By Britany on May 17, 2005

Information Week features Vader on the cover and an article on digital film and theaters. Here's an excerpt:

Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge Of The Sith, which hits theaters this week, is the second movie in George Lucas' 28-year anthology to be shot and edited entirely as digital video. But like its predecessor, Star Wars: Episode II, Attack Of The Clones, only a small percentage of filmgoers will be able to watch it in digital format.

It's not that Hollywood hasn't embraced digital. The majority of feature-length movies are edited in the medium. And some, including the two latest Star Wars flicks and the recent blockbuster Sin City, were filmed, sent, and, on a limited scale, shown in the format, too. The problem is few distributors and theaters are equipped to handle digital movies.

What's missing is an industrywide, standards-based electronic supply chain of high-speed networks, servers, assembly and scheduling software, and projectors that can move digital films from studios' editing rooms to the nearly 37,000 silver screens in North America and thousands more around the world. "The theater of the future will have a main server and local area networks with 300-Mbps bandwidth screaming from subservers that can hold 1 to 2 terabytes of data linked to digital projectors," says Jerry Pierce, senior VP of technology at Universal Pictures.

Hit the link above to read more. Thanks to b5lurker for the alert.

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