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By: CrashDown » Blog Archive » BitTorrent è il futuro del cinema

CrashDown » Blog Archive » BitTorrent è il futuro del cinema — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:31:53 +0000

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By: SomKen

SomKen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:10:40 +0000

This CAM sucks. I’ll wait for a TS or R5. (Please please please, R5!!!)

By: Old Timer

Old Timer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:47:46 +0000

@65 I understand your frunstration in modernizing the distribution of movies…a lot of people in the billion dollar industry would lose their jobs just like when auto plants modernized and started using robots…the same thing…distribution regardless of if it is through bit-torrent, encrypted hard disks or what not, it will come and the whole printing of movies on 35mm film stock at 20-80k per movie will disapear. Yes getting rid of a couple billion dollars in waste productivity…

Years ago, a projectionist made 75-100k per year most with

We are not specifically talking about streaming (even though the artical says they did it) we are talking about distribution through bit-torrent, even if it is encrpted to distribute digital movies (not just from MPAA) to the theatres…it would allow for independent artist to show their wares without the huge printing cost of film stock.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:56:46 +0000

Normally, digital movies are shipped as copies on encrypted harddisks to theatres. That’s cheap, safe and likely even faster than a transfer over the internet. I doubt there’s much of a point in streaming movies to cinemas which play the same movie over and over again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:05:00 +0000

Well Old Timer, you don’t have to make prints anymore. Distribution to movie theaters is the last part of the chain to go digital. All you have to do is set up a large enough disk array, and receive the data in time for playback. Being digital, there is no wear.

Just have twice or triple the same equipment for redundancy (projectors, disk arrays, playback machines, internet links), and you are gold.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:03:53 +0000

yeh right, a billion dollar industry is gonna use sh!tty bittorrent to stream their films. how pathetic you’ve become torrentfreak. As a tech demo article, it’s a very nice read. But then again, you have to add a couple of lines about the big bad wolf mpaa at the very beginning and the end of the article, just to get the fanboys excited. what a farce. grow up you tools.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:52:25 +0000

I don’t understand whats the point in “streaming”. I say its plain stupid. Why not just download the movie in advance, and play back later from a hard disk array? You don’t have to skip in quality either, and the link speed becomes irrelevant.

Someone mentioned FTP; not thats being quite ignorant. If you are a single source, and need to distribute to, say, 20 locations, using FTP you need to upload 20 copies, and either every one waits a lot (bandwidth/20), or everyone waits in queue. With bittorrent, you only need to upload 1 copy, and by the time this is finished, all 20 will have it. That is why Bittorrent is still the most efficient distribution method, as long as many people want the same thing at the same time.

In short, by the time ftp finishes a single copy upload, bittorrent would have unlimited copies completed.

Lately, watching movies in theaters leaves a lot to be desired in the quality department. Besides the usual bad contrast/lenses/focus/subtitles situation, Add to it the ridiculously expensive and outdated (Physical) distribution method they use, not to mention quick wear. Yes its time these dinosaurs adapt or perish. The only reason i would go to a cinema anymore is maybe to share moments with someone, because as far as enjoying movies the themselves, it sucks; plus they even charge more than a DVD per ticket…

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Freeloaders Will Rule The World — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:30:51 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:28:10 +0000

2k or 4k, still doesn’t replace film

i hate knowing what to look for

By: Old Timer

Old Timer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:09:49 +0000

@61 it is not that easy to retrofit these projectors…the Xenon or Argon bulbs cost $10-20k a piece and the way that the film passes through the film gate doesn’t lend itself to a digital projection.

most digital projectors now couldn’t throw the picture the length of the theatre with enough light, but I am sure there are ones out their that could…

Retrofiting is probably not an option especially with all the computerization of the 25mm projector now…most theatres would have to buy new projectors to play the movies and new projectors cost up to a million a piece.

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my 2 cent car crash. — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:56:27 +0000

Those 35mm projectors should be retrofitted to also allow dvd/card playback. More options more better.
Then the one thats best for project at hand could be used.

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By: SantaBJ

SantaBJ — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:00:58 +0000

They should try using a private torrent and stream the film to several screens simultaneously. 19mbps is a breeze; you wouldn’t believe the internal data traffic bandwidth among seeders in the biggest torrent distro groups :P

By: Sendaii

Sendaii — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:58:53 +0000

[quote]“We’re not afraid of the future, the Internet will not kill creativity. Quite on the contrary – we are very exited!”[/quote]

Myself, I would be more excited than exited.

Anyhow, the swarm wasn’t real. From a technical point of view, if this were to happen in everyday cinemas, the film would have to be streamed from a swarm that could offer equal or higher speeds for this to work. So this doesn’t really prove much, TBH.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:10:38 +0000

HOLY SHIT I had no idea movie theaters were still using film.

I figured at the time the moviemakers switched from film to digital the distributors and theaters would have done the same.

HOLY SHIT 35mm is ridiculous.