Not likely, the rental for the movie, (to the theater), far out weighs
the cost of shipping or manufacturing
the print. The theater makes very little on the sale of a ticket,
that's why concession prices are so high,
(and most theaters don't like you to bring in your own snacks). Just
like the move from LPs on Vinyl
to CDs a lower cost medium will probably be complemented with a rise in
price, because of it's supposed
superiority.
Jim Apilado wrote:
Digital projection. Wouldn't it be great if this led to lower theater
tickets.
Jim A.
From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:25:20 -0400
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: The Nature of Film's Final Throes
Resent-From: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:25:21 -0400
I wouldn't say it's got to "many" yet - I'd expect only a handful of
digital projectors (there's currently just one in San Jose). If you
read the fine print carefully on all those other 'digital' cinemas
you'll find it's really digital sound on a standard projector.
But there _is_ a compelling reason to change - the cost of distribution,
storage space, etc. If you look at how much a cinema pays each week for
the reels of film, and compare that with how much they'd have to pay for
either shipping a box of DVDs or just simply downloading over a fast link
a digital projector easily pays for itself over its estimated lifetime.
Add to that the fact that the studios, distributors, etc. *want* digital
distribution rather than shipping film (they still think that they can
come up with a rights management scheme that crackers can't break), and
you can expect to see digital rapidly replacing film over the next years.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:21:35PM -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Maybe our market here is different, but many of our more than 100 screens
in the area are showing movies digitally.
One small example: http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_050316land.html
Shel
From: "P. J. Alling"
There are hundreds of thousands of movie theaters which still have 35mm
projectors. Movies
may be shot in digital, but distribution will probably be primarily on
film, it would cost a stupendous amount of money to replace those
projectors, and as in any business. there would have to be a compelling
economic reason to change, which at this point just
doesn't exist.
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