Do movie theaters still use film movies and projectors?

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Yes, although .. Yes, although all-digital is coming to some of the chains, fairly slowly. No film in that setting, it's all on disk. There are a few digital theatres in the Los Angeles area.

The last Star Wars movie was available in digital. One of the big chains just announced that they were starting to go digital starting the middle of the year. For the high-end projection, 70 MM and IMAX, don't expect to see digital for some years yet.

Just too much data, and the methods to securely transport that much data haven't been perfected, nor are there projection methods for that much data yet. I've actually been disappointed in the digital projection systems I've seen - it's like a first-run 35mm print with no scratches or dirt on the film, but the actual picture quality wasn't particularly better than a standard 35mm projection. I'd hoped for better.

Only the big chains can afford this, you're looking at over 100,000 a projector to go digital (If I remember correctly). In a 12-plex, that's a lot of money! Heck, back when I owned part of a theatre, that's more than the place cost to start with!.

The majority of movies are still shown using film Digital Cinema share of theaters has been increasing. The Digital Cinema Initiatives, working in conjunction with members of the SMPTE standards committee, has published a system specification for digital cinema that was agreed upon by the major studios. There are 5,260 DLP Cinema enabled theatres installed across the globe, an increase of 140% from the same period one year ago, according to Texas Instruments.

DLP Cinema expects to surpass 5,500 screens by mid November, 2007 and 10,000 screens by the end of 2008. In 2004 fewer than 100 theaters nationwide could show digital movies. Half of worldwide screens will be digital by 2013, according to a report by cinema analysts Dodona Research.

About 30,000 movie theaters show films in the United States and about 100,000 globally. Cost is the reason preventing faster adoption. Theater chains have been reluctant to make such an investment on their own, especially because studios stand to save tens of millions of dollars a year on the cost of printing and sending out films.

Theaters and movie studios are negotiating to determine how they can divide the costs of the equipment. Variety Mon. , Nov.12, 2007 Half of screens to be digital by 2013 Report predicts upcoming slew of high-profile 3-D releases will increase exhib’s appetite for digital conversion.

Recent widespread adoption has been facilitated by the emergence of third party integrators willing to cover the large conversion costs, says the Dodona report. These integrators typically finance purchase of the equipment, seeking to repay loans by levying an array of usage charges. While the cost of installation, maintenance contracts and sometimes content delivery charges are paid by exhibitors, the main source of revenues to support conversion comes from virtual print fees.

These are paid by distributors out of their notional savings from not having to strike 35 mm film prints. The report, although upbeat on the prospects for continued conversion, does identify a variety of hurdles standing in the way of the d-cinema revolution. “The next step in the market’s evolution is probably going to need a fall in the price of equipment, or higher virtual print fees, or bigger exhibitor contributions, or all of these,” report author Karsten-Peter Grummitt said.

“Strategies in this market need to move on from the ‘who pays? ’ face-off of the last few years to focus on how to get this done. ” Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Initiatives http://www.dlp.com/cinema/default.aspx http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117975781.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2564 supergrover's Recommendations Digital Cinema : The Revolution in Cinematography, Post-Production, and Distribution Amazon List Price: $39.95 Used from: $13.96 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) .

Depends on where you live They all do where I live, but I heard there is a move to go away from this and to a digital format. If you look behind you at the projection window you can often see/hear the the clickety clack of the standard reel equipment... There used to be live operators for the film versions, but apparently that has now been mostly eliminated: movieville.com/theaters/tech/projection.... excerpt: Movie theaters used to show films right from those reels, and a few still do. It's a process called "changeover" and it requires two projectors and a person to be paying attention for the starts, changes and rewinds (done with a pair of handles and spindles on a table).

Most theaters now show films after building them up on something called a platter system. And here's a excerpt from another page about the new digital format: Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment and Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, owned by the Regal, AMC and Cinemark theater chains, are developing a new digital system which could give theater operators, “the flexibility to put a popular movie on an extra screen as quickly as the demand for it arises,” says the story. “At the same time, theater operators could boot out a surprise stinker and even book in for a day or two an art-house film with a small but devoted audience.”

The system would use satellite and broadband systems to deliver digital films directly to theaters, “rather than have them copied onto hard drives and delivered by hand, as for the most part they are now,” AP has Warner Bros’ Darcy Antonellis saying. And, “Beaming an encrypted version of a digital film directly to the theater should also cut down on film piracy and bootlegging, Antonellis said, by eliminating the number of opportunities for people to get their hands on the movie as it is transit. ” .

Yes.... films are still put on 'film' and run through a projector. The majority of the movies theaters in my particular county are mostly film projector theaters. There are a few theaters that do offer digital format films but it's usually just one auditorium/one specific movie at a time situation.

I actually have not been to a theater where it was all digital....someday perhaps. My understanding is that theaters that want to upgrade to digital totally have to shell out a pretty penny to do so. Sources: Me .

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