Movie Theaters Getting Satellite Dishes of Their Own, Will Offer More Than Just Movies

In an effort to lure the proverbial couch potato away from their cable and satellite TV connections, movie theaters are now getting satellite dishes of their own.

With three of the biggest movie theater chains and five Hollywood studios announcing the long awaited dream of the satellite delivery of movies to theater will finally become a reality over the summer, it won’t be long before studios such as Sony and 20th Century Fox also joins in.

While this won’t save much for moviegoers, this will remove the century-old practice of sending reels of film to theaters and replace it with the delivery of these movies that are encoded on hard drives.

Since this will allow movies to be downloaded from a private networks onto a dedicated servers, this will reduce the costs to almost one-tenth of the prior costs.

But not everyone is pleased with this industry-changing decision and some of these include entities such as indie-film distributors, small theaters chains and independently owned movie houses. The reason for this is because the process of conversion to digital projection costs about $70000 to $100000 – a cost that could hardly be borne by some movie theaters at the risk of bankruptcy.

In fact, this change in the way we watch movies will put almost 10000 movie theaters out of business with the exception of a few cinemas keeping 35mm projectors, if only to cater to a niche audience.

Yet there’s one distinct advantage to those who are able to go through with the conversion process – the ability to offer entertainment that goes beyond movies.