Association calls for digital cinema to stop

Association calls for digital cinema to stop


Digital projectors instead of 35-mm projector: Hire to participate in the conversion costs.
Image: The NEC AG Kino - Gilde has urged its members to forego for the time being on the digital conversion. The association represents, according to his statement about 300 independent film and art house cinemas. With the conversion stop responding the AG Kino - Gilde on the "negative attitude" of the film distributors - would, according to this association that is not involved in the digitization costs, but rather sit out the conversion phase, to convert the cinema without a financial contribution. Digitization of the financial benefit primarily the lenders: Instead of bringing expensive analog copies by special forwarding to the cinemas, the lender can supply digital cinemas with standard hard drives or via satellite.

A funding model already adopted by State and Federal Film Board shall, according to AG Kino - Gilde blocked by the lenders because they lack the necessary trust agreement was signed. The association is calling not only for the immediate signing of this agreement, but also a commitment from the lender to take part via so-called "virtual print fees" (VPF) to the cost for all cinemas. As part of the VPF model, lenders give their digitization costs saved by the part further to the cinema. It also calls for the AG Kino - Gilde a sustainable funding model for digital cinema. "The increased costs and investment in 'second generation' in a few years, makes it necessary that the accounting system as a whole was revised and the movie rentals will be reduced," it says in the call to the AG Kino - Gilde.

The Association emphasizes that he does not stop the digitization of the conversion would interfere. But one can not accept that "shirk their obligation long accepted" the lender.