Financial Benefits Electronic cinema like any disruptive technology has the potential of drawing the studios, production houses and exhibitors alike and gaining considerable marketshare at the expense of traditional film distribution. Digital production will be completed in lesser time and thus speed up the entire process from finish to release as innumerable disks can be made in a day. The film could be released in more cinema halls simultaneously as the cost for the distributor is relatively high. Thus, no more worries for theatre owners and exhibitors and distributors who have to physically carry the film reels from one theatre to another and time shows accordingly, thus enabling faster recovery of investment. Further , by the time bad publicity of a flop movie spreads it will have recovered a table profit.
Every print is a perfect copy.
Thus gone will be the days where the print is really bad if we don't see a movie in the first month. There would be no operator errors and no operator manipulations. Boost box offices. As has been said by all the gurus in the Internet world, industries where the final product can be digitized will be turned upside down. As the compression technologies develop and prints are digitized, the economies of scale that can be achieved will be significant .