Impact on Distribution

Digital Distribution

Digital Distribution of movies has the potential to save money for the film distributors. To print an 80 min feature film can cost US $ 1,500 to $2,500, so making thousands of prints for a wide-release movies can cost millions of dollars. In contrast, at the maximum 250 megabit- per second data rate (as defined by DCI for digital cinema) a feature-length movie can be stored on an off-the-shelf 300 GB hard drive for $150 and a broad release of 4000 digital prints might cost $600,000, in addition for reuse. With several hundred movies distributed every year, the industry saves billions of dollars.