Digital Cinema: Migration From Film Projectors

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Digital CinemaMigration From Film Projectors
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• James Painter
• EGR 332 Computer Organization Design

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Current Penetration of Digital

• As of 2005, only 300 cinemas worldwide were
  equipped with digital equipment
• Nearest digital screen to Elizabethtown Hanover
  (30 mi.), Gettysburg (40 mi.)

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Analog

• Celluloid film onto which pictures and sound are
  recorded (partially digital)
• Highly mechanical projectors, many moving parts
• Tried and tested method used for decades

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Digital Sound (bit matrix)
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Digital

• Picture and sound represented digitally
• Stored temporarily at theater on computer hard
  drive or streamed directly from distributor
• Screened with high-res digital projector
• Relatively very efficient

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Analogs Disadvantages

• Distribution - expensive, slow
• Film Preparation - labor intensive, error-prone
• Inflexible
• Changing venues requires physically moving print
• Large lead-time for ordering prints, limited
  selection of low-risk films

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Content Delivery Over High-Speed Networks

• Distribution
• Expensive due to weight, slow
• Film Preparation
• - Labor intensive, error-prone
• Inflexible
• Changing venues requires physically moving print
• Large lead-time for ordering prints, limited
  selection of low-risk films

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Sources

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• 2 http//www.boxoffice.com/boxoffice_scr/movie_b
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• 3 Digital Cinema A Slow Revolution.
  Dettmer, R. IEEE Review.
• 4 http//www.castify.net/solutions/digitalcinema
  .htm
• 6 http//www.thomsongrassvalley.com/wp/Clark/D-C
  inema_ Distribution/2AW-8109.pdf
• 7 http//www.geocities.com/jonesjohn2000/filmstr
  ip1.jpg
• 8 http//www.coralcliffscinema8.com/images/about
  us_projector.jpg
• 9 http//www.dlp.com
• 10 http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film
  /4724335.stm
• 11 http//cinemaprojectors.co.uk