The Future of Digial Cinema
Xinhua News Agency: China getting ready to lauch a digital cinema server. I’ve had several conversations about this sort of thing lately. Very interested to see how this pans out. Its the sort of thing that could make it far easier to get smaller film makers to get their work on the big screen. Though with the Digital Cinema Initiative being a consortium of all the big industry players, including Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Brothers Studios, you kind of wonder how they are going to try to keep their grip on things. If a trend similar to that in the music industry starts to materialise, where podcasts and networks like the PMN are sprouting up…these guys aren’t going to be too happy.
I’ve started to read “Down and Dirty Pictures” by Peter Biskind which is a historical perspective of the rise of the independent film industry. I’ve only got as far as the Preface but already it tells the story of a pretty scarry world. You can bet these guys are keeping a close eye on this thing we call the web.