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Author Topic: Major Digital Roll Out Under Way Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 09-30-2010 10:43 AM                     Who's sinking $360,000 for a digital screen? Sounds like someone's getting a bit overbid...  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-01-2010 08:51 AM                        quote: Michael Goucher What about Green Film was totally misunderstood? Green Film? Maybe on the margins. Green Cinema? Not very likely. The amount of energy it takes to run a cinema, from HVAC to the 2k and up lamps is so energy intensive it pretty much keeps the cinema biz out of the Green Zone. If the motion picture industry wanted to go green, they would close down all the cinemas and tell people to watch in their homes. Which I sometimes think is their real goal anyway.  |  IP: Logged Geena Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 198 From: Norcross, GA / USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 10-01-2010 01:29 PM                        quote: Mark J. Marshall Yeah, you guys have it wrong... it's LPs that sound better than CDs. Aww. You're so cute; I wish I had a camera right now.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 10-01-2010 02:34 PM                     Well, we don't have HVAC, and we run a 2kW bulb in our 50yrs Ernemann. Our auditorium lights eat more energy than the Xenon bulb. But they are off during the show ;-) Considering the numbers of people we serve with a few kWhrs per day, I would think we are 'greener' than any typical household. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 10-02-2010 02:14 AM                     quote: Geena Phillips At my former employer, where the only films we showed in digital were Indian films, the mainstream Hindi movies that showed in 35mm were almost always from studios who didn't want to pay a VPF. Now that I would understand. What is odd to me is that there are no VPF deals in place here in Finland, not that I know of. So I'm left to wonder why digital copies aren't made by all distributors, since there is absolutely nothing that could be gained by keeping it all 35mm. Must be something I'm missing VPF would be the good reason if there were any around.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-02-2010 07:30 PM                    quote: Michael Goucher Not one such recycling plant exists on Earth. What the hell are you talking about? Kodak provides film recycling services. Link. quote: Geena Phillips Aww. You're so cute; I wish I had a camera right now. I'll wait so you can go get one if you like.  |  IP: Logged Manny Montes Master Film Handler Posts: 270 From: United States Registered: Feb 2010 posted 10-03-2010 04:06 AM                     Love film, the ability to hot swap out parts from spare into a broken projector and have the show back up after 5-10 minutes is amazing. HOWEVER, I've never had an issue with digital yet. I honestly will miss film, but i'm beginning to believe that digital is coming no matter what, these companies have the financing and motivation now, and its already beginning with most major chains having plans to be all digital within the next 5 years. I just hope that we can learn from early mistakes. Barco makes a great projector, the new sony is a definite improvement as well. I haven't gotten to play around with a christie, but I did see a Barco what i'm assuming was a DP2K-23B fitted with a reald XL system, and MAN was it a bright beautiful picture, the brightest i've seen in either film or digital. Amazing light levels, I almost wanted to measure them... almost  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-03-2010 05:01 AM                     The truth is that when you are down with digital you really are down. A periodic maintenance should be made every year at least with cleaning the filters, liquid checks etc. As far as how long the excisting light engines can keep going only time can tell. There are benefits in Dcinema whether we like it or not. i still believe that film rules yet we have to move on when the tome comes. Personally i wouldnt mind film staying for another 100 years although I don't think it will happen. Some things change while others remain the same. Demetris  |  IP: Logged

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