Going Digital!

Movie theatres across India are going digital!One of the major film processing laboratories, Adlabs (which also has the world's largest IMAX theatre in Mumbai) is retrofitting nearly 400 theatres across India with digital movie projectors and film servers by April 2004 so that in the future, movies will be either stored on high capacity disks or transmitted via fibre optic cables to theatres and projected simultaneously from the very first day of release! This is probably the first time that theatres are discarding film and converting to the digital format en masse. Apparently it costs nearly $50,000 to digitize a full length movie, but I'm sure that it's a great move since it will ensure that the movies will be preserved in their original format since most movies (which are stored on film currently) deteriorate over time since few people are interested in preserving a movie once it has outlived it's theatre run.