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Topic: First hint at end of 35mm film distribution for Disney
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Per Hauberg
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-10-2011 10:52 AM
In Denmark (as most other places, I guess), VPF-money are only for those theatres, who can afford the conversion themselves. Why should distributors want to help small cinemas, in which they don't earn anything worth mentioning.
I'm selling somewhere between 25 and 30.000 tickets a year, and would never be considered worth that kind of investment. I've been here for 38 years this week, and I'm not ready to just close down, but I have understood the words: Digitalize or die !
So simple is it !
Screen 1 - 88 seats - 2 Philips Dp70 in fine shape, DTS and Dolby Ex - everything to run my time out, but what is that worth, when 35mm has gone in less than a year from now.-Ergo: One Kinoton DCP30 in and one Dp70 out (sic!), total expence about 950.000 Danish Kroner (ticket price to compare is 70 for grown-ups, 55 for kids). Danish minister of culture, last autumn aired the idea of supporting the 90 smallest cinemas (from my size and down) 200.000 DKK to help going on. That made the two big chains (The Nordisk Film Cinemas and german-owned CinemaxX file a complain at the European Commonship about disturbing the competition ! This came from the same people that othervise spend their time, telling everybody that those 90 small cinemas are representing 2% of the total danish box-office only. But even small pebbles should be disarmed !
My colleques and I still hope to get this support. I may have two private sponsors coming in, too - af if they do, I guess, I will go for my 39 seat Screen 2, too. Othervise, my place will wil return to single screen next spring, digitalized by one private investor - me ! But on it goes !!
I have great wounds of the investment, but I do enjoy my new projector and the possiblities, it gives - accepting the minor pull-downs, as the missing move-over.
A Kinoton Scaler is handling the picture-signal from the Philips BluRay player, with a "Teufel"-box directing the sound to the proper inputs of the CP650, giving real nice quality on alternate shows. -And it was mentionned earlier in this tread, a USB stick in the BluRay opens the doors to "very local oriented contents".
I've got my hands free of the make-up table, and can now take over the job in the combined ticket- and concessions stand.
Not bad at all !
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Per
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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 07-10-2011 11:42 AM
quote: Monte L Fullmer
a major savings in payroll and the elimination of presentation errors
Horsepucky! Another great example of a technology being touted
as 'the grestest thing since sliced bread' but which is in
reality an excuse to cut corners and eliminate skilled labor.
Remember - "you get what you pay for"
Most of the recent media attention I've seen given to poor
image quality has to do with digital projecton. And, quite
frankly, most of the lousy 35mm presntations I've seen lately
have been caused by the result of CRAPPY LAB WORK, as I've
posted elsewhere on this forum.
Let's face it- - both systems can (and will) look bad once
you take dedicated, skilled operators and regular maintenance
out of the equasion.
Sure, new digital installations look great. But a few years
down the road as the equipment ages and theater owners take
the same amount of "care" they do with their present equipment,
it will only be a matter of time before digital looks just as
'bad' as some people claim 35mm looks today. The problem isn't
35mm film, it's the fact that a lot of it is being run by people
who have no business being in a projection booth. (A situation
largely made possible by the introduciton of platters, which
allowed almost any idiot to "run" a show. And now we're
digitally dumbing down the projection proceess further. )
I think at some point, even a mediocre lawyer will see the
opportunity of a big anti-trust conspiracy lawsuit given
the deterimental effec the closing of hundreds of buisnesses
and putting thousands of people out of work would have; and
that's precisely what 'digital media moguls' and distributors
are conspiring to do. You can't create conditions that force
a business to buy your systems. At some point, either lawsuits
or legislation will stop, or at least greatly retard, this nonsense.
I'm sure "digital" is in the future- - but not without a fight!
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Monte L Fullmer
Film God
Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 07-10-2011 06:09 PM
Yet true, film presentation is also perfect if all factors to make it be is there to make it perfect. But unfortunately, it takes skilled and proper training to keep that system perfect, and that is what the industry is losing.
Digital comes along to make it easy to bridge that expanding gap of the lack of skill and proper training so the presentation can remain perfect.
Instead of the time to build a film trailer pak and film assembly, now it takes no more than 5 min to build a trailer pack, edit in a whim if necessary, save the playlist and do a test screening, where you can go forward and backward at the click of the mouse.
And what's a bit interesting is that we can still retain our "purist" feelings for 35mm and carry them over to digital, for these units still need our care ... just in a different way...
...and that can still be an exciting adventure to go after.
...just give it a chance.
Yes, I know that projecting film movies is form of art and the industry is taking that art form away from us who love it and it does hurt deep inside. But, as Brad mentioned that we must get over it - we can't fight it since we all are so horribly outnumbered by the studio's decisions.
And if this affects the one to keep a job within the industry and face either potiental layoffs, or position changes within the industry, a choice is eventually given to those affected: either make the change, or go down different avenues to begin anew with a new career....and I, myself is seeing the "Y" approaching in the road and I have to think on which leg of this "Y" am I going to go.
good luck, all-Monte
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