(Which in the first design was rather simple to bypass) They have security stickers on the enclosure. They even had to make special baffles for the vents so that people couldn’t disable or short the case open switch. The Feature player was the unit that was locked down to the nth degree. In the lab I work in, the feature (movie) player is separate from the content (ads, inter-movie slideshows) player which is separate from the projector.
#Insane silo movie movie#
On the digital feature/content systems I’ve worked on, the movie files are typically DRM’d. * Oh, and yes, it’s pretty freaking cool that Roger Ebert’s projectionist is named James Bond.įiled Under: 3d, digital movies, drm, projectors Why? Because of the fear of the dreaded “piracy.” Of course, all this really does, in the long run, is drive more such “piracy” by making people question why they should go to the theater for a crappy movie-going experience. Yes, the projector requires you to get security clearances and internet passwords just to change a lens… or it shuts down on you. Opening the projector alone involves security clearances and Internet passwords, “and if you don’t do it right, the machine will shut down on you.'” The result, in his view, is that often the lens change isn’t made and “audiences are getting shortchanged.'” James Bond, a Chicago-based projection guru who serves as technical expert for Roger Ebert’s Ebertfest, said issues with the Sonys are more than mechanical. So why aren?t theater personnel simply removing the 3-D lenses? The answer is that it takes time, it costs money, and it requires technical know-how above the level of the average multiplex employee. While that might play a part… the bigger issue appears to be Sony’s insane fear of digital infringement: You might just think the issue is lazy projectionists who don’t want to change lenses. In other words, it’s making the theater experience dreadful. In some cases, the films are being projected 85% darker due to this. Those same projects can show 3D movies, but if you try to show a 2D movie via the 3D lenses, you can lose a ton of light. In general it provides plenty of benefits. It’s easier than shipping and loading film. Basically, lots of theaters are using digital projectors, which were supposed to be a huge boon for the theater industry. Nina Paley alerted us to an article from the Boston Globe that’s been getting some attention about how many theaters are showing digital projections of regular “2D” movies that look really bad because projectionists don’t remove 3D lenses. Thu, May 26th 2011 01:06pm - Mike Masnick
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