Digital cinema picking up momentum

July 06, 2009 In its most recent digital cinema briefing, London-based film-research specialist Dodona Research said almost 12,000 screens have converted to digital projection worldwide of a total of around 110,000 globally. Further out, the research firm predicts 20% of global screens will be converted for digital projection by 2012, but the global economic meltdown leaves the outlook and timetable for converting the remaining four-fifths of cinema screens to digital projection still unclear. Cinema owners still find it hard to justify replacing their 33mm projectors with more expensive digital equipment," the report pointed out, citing difficulties with finding a payment model to support conversion and "tougher financing terms since the onset of the banking crisis last year" as issues that have made the challenge "doubly difficult.

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