Irish cinema set to go completely digital within a year

**jb_617** · March 23rd, 2005, 09:49 PM

What about it?

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**peter_g** · March 24th, 2005, 01:14 AM

Originally posted by Alex:
Virtually everyone who reads the topic title you created for this thread will assume that film has been vacated as an acquisition format in Ireland.

I'll assume you didn't mean to make your topic title sound that way, but you also haven't gone back and modified it, either.

I doubt many would be stupid enough to make that assumption.

You assume that I didn't mean to make my post topic sound that way? Since when? Did you finally get around to actually reading my post? Should I regard that as a retraction of this statement?:

Originally posted by Alex:
Once again, the title of this topic post is nonsensical and completely wrong, and of course, it's falseness is designed to kill film and overvalue digital.

I am not completely without fault myself. I concede that if someone who had never learned to not take everything that they read completely literally (someone with, say, asperger's syndrome), was completely ignorant of the whole film Vs video debate and did not bother to read the post itself might just assume that film had been abandoned as a format for origination in Ireland. I think, however, that the distinction between digital film origination as well as digital distribution and digital film distribution only would be lost on such a person.

If you want to be completely pedantic (and you clearly do) it would have been slightly more accurate to entitle this post ?Irish cinemas set to go completely digital within a year?. I'm real fucking sorry.

Originally posted by Alex:
Perhaps more than a digital versus film issue, what this is really about is a "live, entertainment" issue versus storytelling.

No Alex, I pretty sure that this is a digital Vs film issue, by virtue of the fact that the topic isn?t ?Live entertainment Vs storytelling?.

Andytom: Yes, those high density hard disks could store an entire feature film at resolutions used by digital projection systems. So?

**Andy.tom** · March 24th, 2005, 04:16 AM

how about this then

**Andy.tom** · March 25th, 2005, 03:40 PM

What about it?

You could use it to store an lot of uncompressed film (if you read through the web site it can store between 1,000 and 10,000 times more than a blu-ray disc) when it is finally released.

**jb_617** · March 25th, 2005, 05:19 PM

Originally posted by AndyTom:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />What about it?

You could use it to store an lot of uncompressed film (if you read through the web site it can store between 1,000 and 10,000 times more than a blu-ray disc) when it is finally released.<hr /></blockquote>Sorry, yes I understood that, I think I wasn't clear before. The ammount of data stored was not what I was talking about. Yep, when they are finally invented and not just pie-in-the-sky, I'm sure they'll be great. 6,840 hours of tv per disk sounds very cool!

But, that wasn't my point. If the technology does not yet exist to project and uncompressed image, then why bother. Just use 35mm until something better comes along, not just something cheaper.

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If only I could afford to buy 6,840 hours of tv.

**Alex** · March 25th, 2005, 06:34 PM

Originally posted by MatJimMood:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Alex:

You're not the first one to make an irresponsible topic title that spreads misinformation. Virtually everyone who reads the topic title you created for this thread will assume that film has been vacated as an acquistion format in Ireland.

How can a topic title spread misinformation? People look at the topic title and then read the post for the information.

There's nothing misleading or even ambiguous in Peter_G's post.<hr /></blockquote>You're not serious are you? That's like saying a newspaper headline has no bearing.

**Alex** · March 25th, 2005, 06:36 PM

"Irish cinema set to go completely digital within a year".

That title completely implies that film is no longer being used in any capacity, and that would be an incorrect statement.

**jb_617** · March 25th, 2005, 06:44 PM

Alex, I think you are being needlessly pedantic about this. Ok, so you read the topic title one way and Peter meant it another. WHO CARES? It doesn't alter the FACT that the Republic of Ireland is changing to digital projection. That's all Peter was saying so get off his back. You really are making yourself look like a fool by banging on about this.

By the way, Peter. Are Irish cinemas all state owned then? Or is it just one chain?

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I can smoke and drink in my local cinema, suckers.

[ March 25, 2005 02:45 PM: Message edited by: jb. ]

**peter_g** · March 25th, 2005, 09:26 PM

No, they are not state owned (although I can understand how you might jump to that conclusion). The bulk of Irish cinemas are chains (UCI, Ster century, UGC) and the remainder are independently owned. They are all loosely affiliated through the Irish film board. As I said before, it puzzles me that they are all acting in concert like this. The media has chosen to take the fact that print degradation ceases to be an issue with digital projection as evidence of its ?superior quality?. I've read this story in several places, and each is just a lazy paraphrasing of an Irish film board press release.

You can drink and smoke in your local cinema? You lucky man. Smoking in any sort of workplace, including cinemas, restaurants, factories, and even pubs is illegal here, under penalty of a heavy fine.

Aren?t they introducing a similar ban in Britain in 2006?

**Nigel** · March 25th, 2005, 10:04 PM

Alex--

The title to the thread seems to have not infringed on it or change the context of the discussion. Everyone here except for you seems to see no harm in it. Why don't you get back to the discussion now??

Good Luck

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