– 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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Didn’t work in the industry, but I run a little movie group and got a tour of the “projection booth.” The manager told us they do the hard drive version mentioned by others but that they came in two pieces. So the whole movie wasn’t all on one drive and that they were moving to the satellite method.

Also it wasn’t a booth. It was the whole upstairs, the projectors were huge like a refrigerator and they are all programed. No one attends them. So if there’s something wrong with your movie, don’t yell up to the booth. You have to go out to the lobby and tell someone.

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