(Nando) (Insert bad Digital Theatre pun here) The digital revolution for the movie industry will begin at one of Hollywood's classic movie palaces, the Egyptian Theater.?Engineers, equipment makers, theater owners and moviegoers will be pulled together to test prototypes of digital projection systems that are expected to become commonplace in movie houses in five years or so. The idea of how this would completely change distribution is interesting.?Studios estimate that an electronic distribution system would save about $500 million per year.?Technical issues such as compression, color imagery, audio and security will be studied.?There is an estimate of $3 billion for upgrading theatres in the US (they had an article yesterday that said $4 billion, but whatever) and $10 billion worldwide.
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