The New York Times has a story on Landmark Theaters' plans to install high-definition projectors into each of its 57 theaters. Landmark, which owns the Dobie Theater in Austin also plans to produce low-budget digital feature to play on the new digital screens. Yet, according to the story, some indie purists are skeptical of Landmark's intentions.
<lil jon voice>What?</lil jon voice> The article doesn't mention that producing a movie on film is more expensive by orders of magnitude than producing a movie on HD video. By offering digital projectors in its theaters filmmakers who shoot and edit on DV will be spared the cost of making a 35mm transfer, so it will be less expensive for DV filmmakers to reach commerical exhibition and decrease the amount of time it takes to get a movie to the theater. With digital projection, a poor MFA student could bring a timely documentary to the Dobie just in time for election day, rather than waiting for a 35mm print.
Good point.
A couple of years back I heard that at that time some theater chains were investing in digital projection technology primarily for the simulcast and corporate event market.
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