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ORLANDO, FLORIDA, (October 22, 2004) - Eastman Kodak Company announced today at the annual ShowEast Conference that the company is taking a major step forward in its goal of making high-quality digital cinema available for motion picture exhibitors around the world. The company is demonstrating the Kodak Digital Cinema Solution for Feature Presentations, a bundled package of hardware, software, and support services.

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 11-15-2004, 10:33 AM:
 
Allowing say $25/week to distribute the digital media (or transmit the film) to theatres that leaves $325. If we put the life of the digital system at 5 years before it's obsolete or becomes uneconomic to maintain then at 7% interest $325 a week would amortize a digital setup costing about $71,000 for projector & server etc. (leaving out those components that would be the same with film). Any 2K D-Cinema setups out there for $71K?
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 11-15-2004, 10:49 AM:
 
On average, isn't your 7% interest assumption a bit low for a 5-year business loan for capital equipment with a short depreciation?
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-15-2004, 11:10 AM:
 
Out of curiousity, what would it cost a distributor to provide a 70mm print per week? I wouldn't include the cost of the blowup negative here, but the cost would need to include the cost of striping/sounding or the DTS license fee and cost of disk manufacturing.
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 11-15-2004, 12:33 PM:
 

quote: Scott Norwood

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Out of curiousity, what would it cost a distributor to provide a 70mm print per week? I wouldn't include the cost of the blowup negative here, but the cost would need to include the cost of striping/sounding or the DTS license fee and cost of disk manufacturing.

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The cost of making the required 65mm duplicate negative does need to be included, and prorated over the number of 70mm release prints made. DTS is the likely sound format today.

Although Kodak sells the 70mm print film raw stock for about 2X the price of 35mm print film raw stock, 70mm printing is usually done on a slower printer, and is more labor intensive. I believe printing the DTS timecode still requires a second pass through the printer. So the cost of 5-perf 70mm prints is more than just a (2 x 5/4) = 2.5X factor. Much would depend on the number of prints ordered.
 

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 11-15-2004, 02:16 PM:
 
That probably why he's asking.

I don't recall if the discussion took place here or on rec.arts.movies.tech but there's no reason DTS timecode can't be exposed directly onto a 70mm print by a simple attachment to the printer.
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 11-15-2004, 03:41 PM:
 
AFAIK, the DTS time code is still printed from a 35mm B&W sound negative, even for 70mm prints. One pass printing would require the printer to have both a picture head and a soundhead, and transport for both picture and sound negatives.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 11-15-2004, 06:50 PM:
 

quote: John Pytlak

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I believe printing the DTS timecode still requires a second pass through the printer.

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quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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According to information I got from Walter Browski earlier this year is that DTS has made available the equipment to all labs involved to do 70mm DTS prints in one pass.

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