– 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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I seem to remember a news story at the time that it was also one of the first pirated movies that was available at full resolution and theater quality. (not a CAM or other techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E.

Titan A.E. became the first major motion picture to be screened in end-to-end digital cinema.
On June 6, 2000, ten days before the film was released, at the
SuperComm 2000 trade show, the movie was projected simultaneously at the
trade show in Atlanta, Georgia as well as a screen in Los Angeles, California. It was sent to both screens from the 20th Century Fox production facilities in Los Angeles via a VPN.[16]

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