Re: This is worth the bandwidth

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Richard Riley > said:
>This is the best piece of corporate communication I've seen in a long
>while.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz6XjXu-oT8

I'd find this a lot funnier if they hadn't laid off two of my Digital
Cinema Management System developers yesterday.

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[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Richard Riley > said:
>On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:51:32 +0000 (UTC),
>(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>
>>I'd find this a lot funnier if they hadn't laid off two of my Digital
>>Cinema Management System developers yesterday.
>
>Is that the former Boeing Digital Cinema?

No, Kodak has had their own system a lot longer than Boeing has.

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[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Richard Riley > said:
>On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:18:24 +0000 (UTC),
>(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>>No, Kodak has had their own system a lot longer than Boeing has.
>
>Ah. Boeing sold theirs off last year for about $1.98. I worked with
>it for a while a few years ago.

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/products/digital/index.jhtml

It's a pretty good system. Too bad it's underfunded and we're all
over-stressed and over-worked.

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[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Richard Riley > said:
>Have they figured out how to get the theater owners to pay for it,
>when the distributors get the savings on prints?

The industry seems to be going to a model where the distributor pays for
the system, and then the theatre owner pays "virtual print fees" to the
distributor. What they're trying to avoid is a throwback to the days
where a studio controlled a theatre, and it would only show movies from
that studio.

The biggest hassle is that the studios are crazy about piracy and want
digital to be way less piratable than film. But that also means that each
print comes with a license key that only allows it to be played on a
certain player - which means an added hassle when the theatre owner
decides a movie is really popular and so needs to be played on the big
house instead of the small house, or in two houses at once. That's easy
in the days of film, you just haul the film platter over to the other
projector, or set up a gang-play, but in the digital world it means they
have to go back to the distributor and get a new key delivery that
invalidates the key for the one player and validates it for the other
player.

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Paul Tomblin wrote:
> ... But that also means that each
> print comes with a license key that only allows it to be played on a
> certain player - which means an added hassle when the theatre owner
> decides a movie is really popular and so needs to be played on the big
> house instead of the small house, or in two houses at once.
> ...in the digital world it means they
> have to go back to the distributor and get a new key delivery that
> invalidates the key for the one player and validates it for the other
> player.
>

In the digital world can' t that be done over the internet in less
time than it takes to walk a platter of film from one projection
booth to another?

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[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Richard Riley > said:
>Getting the theater manager to call the regional manager, getting him
>to call the distribution manager, get 3 signatures, file it, get
>approval from the guy down the hall, and THEN send the new key takes 2
>days.

Exactly. I've already seen the theatre managers complaining about all
this anti-piracy bull**** getting in their way, and it will only get
worse. Sooner or later, they're going to tell the studios to **** off
with this anti-piracy crap or they're going back to film.

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"Paul Tomblin" > wrote in message
...
> In a previous article, Richard Riley > said:
>>Getting the theater manager to call the regional manager, getting him
>>to call the distribution manager, get 3 signatures, file it, get
>>approval from the guy down the hall, and THEN send the new key takes 2
>>days.
>
> Exactly. I've already seen the theatre managers complaining about all
> this anti-piracy bull**** getting in their way, and it will only get
> worse. Sooner or later, they're going to tell the studios to **** off
> with this anti-piracy crap or they're going back to film.
>

The theater owners don't have the power in the relation ship. A distributor
can but a theater out of business should they desire to.