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May 25, 2005
Digital India (and Singapore)
From India's Financial Express, Nivedita Mookerji reports on the digital transition in that coutnry: "In another 5 years, India may see a total transition to digital... Delivery of digital content through satellite distribution network holds the key... Networked digital cinema offers new revenue streams to exhibitors, reduced delivery cost and improved piracy protection to distributors, and preserved image and sound integrity to producer... While Hughes [Escorts, a digital provider,] has already signed on 250 theatres for networked distribution of digital films, it plans to sign 500 by August and another 1,000 by the end of this year." Rather than junking distribution infrastructure as would be the case in North America, Mookerji points out, in India, it would be creating a system where there is now none. "Significant beneficiaries of networked distribution would be theatres in smaller towns... Around 30 countries are learnt to have begun the transition to digital cinema, and Singapore is even spearheading a digital exchange initiative. Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) aims to pitch Singapore as the global node where all forms of digital content are processed, managed and distributed..."
Posted by at May 25, 2005 10:31 AM
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