Moving Pictures

[rpm]

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=3284

 

[supersunbird]

THANK A DEITY! Hopefully this will mean the movies are always in focus!

Now can you please do a story about the fact that Ster Kinekor has the slowest website I have encountered (with me being on ADSL), and why it has to detect plugins first?

 

[krycor]

In digital format, movies can be distributed to theatres on hard-disk drives, DVDs or even via high-speed Internet connections at a fraction of the cost.

I doubt they will use the last option cause it will cost more, guess we have to wait for movies. btw I was looking to go watch a movie and see its like R38 except at some places where its cheap.(50-65% glad kc is not too far)

 

[Dovi]

I doubt they will use the last option cause it will cost more, guess we have to wait for movies. btw I was looking to go watch a movie and see its like R38 except at some places where its cheap.(50-65% glad kc is not too far)

Compared to alot of First world countries, our movie ticket prices are actually quite cheap. Besides the fact that we get Discovery Cards and Edgars Cards (which reduce the ticket price to around R14), we also have Sterkinekor Junctions which sells tickets for R14 each. My family in America & Canada say they pay around $8-$12 PER TICKET

 

[MrG]

I really thought they already have better equipment, damn are we out of date or WHAT!

 

[noxibox]

Compared to alot of First world countries, our movie ticket prices are actually quite cheap. Besides the fact that we get Discovery Cards and Edgars Cards (which reduce the ticket price to around R14), we also have Sterkinekor Junctions which sells tickets for R14 each. My family in America & Canada say they pay around $8-$12 PER TICKET

Actually they're not cheap. Relative to average incomes the prices here are very high. R40 for a movie is relatively expensive.

The R14 cinemas are ones that are essentially old and in a state of disrepair. There are similar, extremely cheap cinemas overseas.

 

[noxibox]

Some have agreed to share the savings they expect to make in production costs

Only some? As usual they were just hoping to add to their already gargantuan profits.

Then there’s the piracy problem — DVD piracy, in particular, is endemic

Cinema prices are high and no-one wants, nor has to, wait for the movies to be available at a local cinema. The movies have to be shown locally before foreign DVD releases otherwise high quality copies will get distributed. Digital distribution should forever eliminate the release date gap.

 

[Gatecrasher]

It all sounds great in the article, but you really need 4k digital projectors to reproduce film's picture definition. 1.3k projectors are going to look very blocky on a large screen.

Films shot on HD digital cameras would need 2k projectors to reproduce the content in its original definition.

But this is definitely the way of the future.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Why waste money doing a half-baked upgrade to non-compliant digital equipment and then in a few years upgrade to the real thing? Totally rediculous. R50 000 as opposed to R350 000. Um, that extra R300 000 is about a day's takings for one cinema complex i bet.

As always, the answers to ALL these problems (piracy etc) are so simple, but money and power stand in the way of common sense...