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

556 views

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.

In: 487

20 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

Depends on the theater. Some places recieve them on hard drives, others get them as a satellite download. In either case, the encrypted files are copied onto some sort of local storage, and they can only be played back with a time limited key that will expire at the end of the movie’s scheduled run.

You are viewing 1 out of 20 answers, click here to view all answers.