Fantasy becoming reality.

It was about time!

On today’s USA Today, a sign that digital cinema is around the corner. Well at least in a foreseeable future.

Top Hollywood’s film studios are planning the technical specifications to make the big move to digital. Basically they are deciding on the resolution and elaborating ways to fight movie piracy at the same time.

It represents a $3 billion dollards investments. That’s a lot of money, even for the movie industry. Still the cost of making and shipping film prints is an impressive $1.2 billion dollards a year! With no prints, or close to no prints, to make and the shipping of a hard drive, or even better yet, using satellite signals instead of shipping films canisters; those costs will dramatically drop. Making the investment worthwhile in a fairly short term.

Why now? Why did the industry waited this long before even thinking of maikng this move? The technology has been available for quite a few years now. Maybe it was feared. Change is not always welcomed in big business. Well, better late than never I guess.

Hopefully we’ll be able to see movies in digital cinemas soon.

I mean, in the next 10 years or so. I wouldn’t want to rush anyone!