– How do movie theaters get the digital copy of the movies they are showing?

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Do theaters get a Hard Drive with the digital copy? Do they stream? Consider the thousands of theaters getting a movie that opens at the same time across the country, I want to know the logistics of getting that data to the theater.

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Heh, I actually wanted to know that too. I was a projectionist in the 90s and every week we got a truckload full of big heavy film canisters that I had to put together before showing and taken apart again afterwards. Was a real pain to do and imagine hauling 20 of those suckers up and down 2 flights of stairs… I knew everything has long since gone digital but never really knew how.

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