{"id":3244,"date":"2013-03-08T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2013-03-08T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:52:55","slug":"satellite-movie-delivery-coming-to-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2013\/03\/satellite-movie-delivery-coming-to-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Movie Delivery Coming to Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/satellite-movie-distribution.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3247\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"satellite-movie-distribution\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/satellite-movie-distribution-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/satellite-movie-distribution-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/satellite-movie-distribution-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/satellite-movie-distribution.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Technology is taking over Hollywood, and in more ways than digital films and 3D movies.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of this year, many of your favorite movies will no longer exist in physical form.<\/p>\n<p>Movies, of course, started as reels of film and remained like that for the better part of a century. About six years ago, digital distribution began and those movies were distributed as discs or on hard drives. Now, the three biggest theater chains in the country \u2013 Regal, AMC and Cinemark \u00a0&#8211; have all but assured satellite distribution will begin to take hold.<\/p>\n<p>The theaters have partnered with a company called the<strong>\u00a0Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition<\/strong> to begin to receive films, promotional materials and more via satellite. The DCDC is currently composed of five major studios,\u00a0<strong>Lionsgate, Disney, Paramount, Warners and Universal<\/strong>, with Sony and Fox are in negotiations to join.<\/p>\n<p>This technological push will deliver positive cash benefits to Hollywood. With over 4,000 theaters in the U.S., celluloid-based movies have lost ground to digital films because it costs $1,500 to print a film on 35 mm but a tenth of that to make a digital version on hard drives. Yet those hard drives still have to be physically delivered to each theater, something which seems increasingly wasteful, inflexible, and unwieldy. A satellite-based system allows studios to upload movies whenever they are ready and even to adjust availability of movies and dynamic scheduling to their liking.\u00a0Because of equipment costs, estimates are that the new system will cut the price of distribution in half.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, you probably won&#8217;t see lower \u00a0ticket prices resulting from this new distribution method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is taking over Hollywood, and in more ways than digital films and 3D movies. By the end of this year, many of your favorite movies will no longer exist in physical form. Movies, of course, started as reels of film and remained like that for the better part of a century. 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