Odeon completes digital switchover....

[julian_craster]

Anybody want to buy lots of old 35 mm film projectors (going cheap at knockdown prices...) ?
(warning - soon you will have no 35mm reels to show....)


End of the flicks? Odeon completes digital switchover
The days of flickering cinema projections could be over. After a two-year campaign and a £40 million investment, the Odeon has gone digital.

Daily Telegraph:
End of the flicks? Odeon completes digital switchover - Telegraph

[orpheum2]

A sad day.As someone who feels that the projection box is a magic place to see film projectors consigned to the scrapheap is a time to mourn.No longer can we see the changeover dots,no lnger where cinemas have changeovers can we hope that the projectionist a few seconds out so we can see the leader by mistake and no longer when you get near the end of a reel will you start seeing the picture and sound keep on jumping as a result of all the splices nor will you see the tramlines running down the screen caused by scratching on rewinds.the romance of the cinema is dead alas.

[julian_craster]

Another development from the Victorian era (film running through a projector) along with steam railway locomotives comes to an end with the march of technology......

Next, public libraries......?

[Paul Waines]

Does this mean we have to stop calling them Films, and start calling them Movies...

[Steve Crook]

Does this mean we have to stop calling them Films, and start calling them Movies...

It's still the flicks

Steve

[Chevyman]

Reels were often changed during "The Interval" another tradition that's gone