Why are movie theaters switching to digital cinema?
There is no significant quality difference between film and D-Cinema projection. However, digital copies are not degraded by mishandling, so often the fiftieth screening of a D-Cinema copy will be as free from scratches and dirt specks as the first screening, a substantial improvement over today’s typical multiplex 35mm film projection. 35mm film projection. As no threading of film is required there can be fewer employees. Digital cinema will also greatly reduce the studios’ costs of making film copies; with film physical prints are made and sent to theaters in trucks as large, heavy reels of film. D-cinema uses small hard drives and is hoped someday to be sent by satellite.
