[pure-silver] Re: Free Kodak Film

Quoting Georges Giralt <georges.giralt@xxxxxxx>:

>
> Kodak will leave the analog photography market very soon because more 
> and more theaters are going digital for film and more and more film 

The silly bosses of many of the mainline studios and media conglomerates
sure like this idea but there are a lot of reasons for it NOT to happen--
and digital, despite it digital rights (greed), promises is not even in
their best interests.

> producing is done using video style equipment and HD TV cameras. When a

Video capture came and went and comes.. Most editing is long video (digital)
supported.
 
> significant percentage of Western World theaters will be eqquiped to 
> display movies in digital forms, the need for 35 mm color release film 

That's I think a major issue. Cinemas need to offer (also a lession learned
in the 1980s) more than watching a video, dvd, or download stream at home.
Beamers and big flat screen plasma panels are becoming more and more common
in people's living rooms--- and not just in the US or Europe.

Doing it "right" and "digital" for a cinema is a very expensive affair. Is
"digital display" a predicate that customers (movie goers) are prepared to
pay extra for? It seems not. Not even in tech-happy Japan or France.

Demand for motion picture print materials is at the highest level (by a
factor of many times over) its ever been. 

Digital and a return to a few cinemas playing big productions? That's shown
itself too to be not in the interest of the market.

Prints are cheap. Maintaining projectors is cheap.


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