Making Digital Cinema Actually Happen – What it Takes and Who's Going to Do It

The term “Digital Cinema” means different things to different people from “big screen television” on up. This paper addresses the ultimate Digital Cinema application—complete electronic replacement of film prints as a means to distribute first run feature films to any theatre in the world. — This inevitable revolution in motion picture distribution involves more than just a comparison of the quality of electronic projection techniques against traditional film projection. It provides the opportunity to meet many of the present and future needs and desires of concerned parties at all levels of the motion picture food chain—from directors and producers to those of us in the viewing audience. This paper explores some of the wish list items that exist for Digital Cinema and answers the question, “will this really happen and, if so, how soon?” — Finally, a complete end-to-end solution to meet these system requirements is presented that will shape the future of cinema distribution for the next millenium. A good electronic projector is just the beginning. The presented solution addresses the issues of cost, security, reliability, controllability, and ease of use.

Published

1998-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00299

ISBN

978-1-61482-929-4