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5 Meinungen für “When did cinemas stop using film reels and convert to digital?”

1. Wolfmoon sagt:
   09.September, 2009 um 3:22 pm

   My local cinema still uses reels.
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2. badman101 sagt:
   09.September, 2009 um 3:31 pm

   I don’t know a specific date. but, based on when the technology was brought out into modern society I would personally say anywhere from the early to mid 90′s. the military has had this tech from the sixties and others alike like GPS systems which only in the last 5 years have become more and more common. the same principle is applied from the conversion of reel to digital memory. its been here a few decades, just not on mass scale. hope that cleared a few things up..
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3. Dog sagt:
   09.September, 2009 um 4:21 pm

   They still use reels sometimes. Right now they are transitioning to mainly using digital I suppose.

   Obviously it’s cheaper because one copy of a film on reels is several thousand dollars – a digital copy is just the cost of a bluray disk – plus the cost of shipping those large heavy reels to all the theaters across the country at the same time is pretty high too.
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4. Daniel W sagt:
   09.September, 2009 um 5:00 pm

   Most cinemas still use reels. It costs a lot to upgrade your projectors so unless you need new ones or you’re a new cinema then there isn’t much point.

   My 2 local cinemas each have 1 digital projector each, the rest of the screens are still reels.
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5. rachel b sagt:
   09.September, 2009 um 5:34 pm

   Maybe so they could easily pirate the films? How many movies seem to be leaked onto the internet nowadays since converting to digital?
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