Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From what I've read, the theater owners are waiting for the studios to participate in the conversion expenses. The studios are waiting for the theater owners to do so on their own. And everyone is concerned about the potential for piracy with high quality digital movie files. If digital projection offers audiences something superior to film, the revolution would already have taken place. Just as sound film required theaters to update their projection equipment, based on popular demand, so will digital projection once it offers a really worthwhile improvement over film projection. To date, I've heard that the digital projection images are not quite up to film standards. Jim Shulman Bryn Mawr, PA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of David Young Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:54 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Kodak woes Larry Z wrote: >The only good news is that the production of 35 mm film stock will >continue for some time, at least pending a large scale movie industry >switch to digital. This is not too likely, Larry. A fair number of movies are being shot on video, these days, but are then converted to film, for distribution, as the theaters are not willing to make the huge investments in digital projectors ... at least until they know that a projector will be good for, say, 15 to 20 years ... as their film projectors are. In the digital age, this is not too likely! --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt