I worked in a movie theater, and in 2013, they made the transition from film to digital. The movies came in on HDDs which a timed license (weekly) for the movie theater to run. With film, theaters could/would go rogue and keep playing the movies without the permission of the distributors.
I will say, the projector room, after going digital, wasn’t the same. The film room was exciting, watching the film rotate on the platter, run through the brain, run through the projector, and then run to another platter was really cool to see. All of this was happening at a rate of 2 ft/second. Digital is pretty boring to watch by comparison.
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