Now we'll see how changing from film to digital is being done, and explore some of the opportunities and benefits that going digital offers. Making A Pathway Current motion picture distribution is tied exclusively to film acetate.
Digital distribution is considerably more flexible.
Digital motion pictures can be encoded on many different types of media and transmitted in various ways. However they eventually find their way to theatres, digital programs will first be stored as computer-readable files. From there, they'll be compressed, and these smaller files can then be divided onto media like DVD-R discs, portable hard drives, or digital tapes for physical distribution to theatres. The stored images can also remain housed on a central server and distributed via satellite or fiber optic cable. At the moment, satellite and cable bandwidth limits make it impractical to serve high-resolution images to modern multiplexes, at least in the broadcast fashion anticipated by the studios for future distribution systems.