Film versus digital cinema: the evolution of moving images
2003
Film has been used for movies for over 100 years. D-cinema will
soon produce images that equal or surpass film. When that
happens, movies will take their basis from computer technology,
leading to higher quality, lower cost, and greater flexibility for all aspects of the industry. For example, d-cinema will allow higher
frame rates, flexible subtitles, alternative content, and resolutions
and color spaces beyond film. Given these opportunities, we must
not simply emulate the mechanical past. Insisting, for instance, on
a single type of compression or security scheme is misguided.
Both these areas are evolving, and we should take advantage of
that evolution, while promoting standards that allow that evolution
to happen in an orderly way. Mechanical projectors can play back
only one kind of film; computer servers can play back any number
of formats. It would be wrong to select a single format at this time,
only to have the technology become more capable in the near
future. We must allow the continuously evolving technology that
characterizes computers, not the frozen technology that has
characterized mechanical systems. We must work toward an
environment that allows interoperability of d-cinema technologies-not systems that limit us to a single technology.
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