Singapore Builds First Asia Digital Movie Gateway
Filed in: Web — June 8th, 2005
Singapore is to become a digital shipping port for movies and aims to be the first to implement a worldwide digital distribution network. It is working on a transmission system that will allow studios in the US to deliver movies as files through Singapore into the rest of Asia.
In a series of pilot tests conducted earlier in 2005, three movie trailers were transmitted from Los Angeles in the US to cinemas in Singapore via a high-speed broadband connection.
The plan is not only to establish a system that will allow new movies to be instantly released everywhere, but also to “localise” them with appropriate subtitles before sending them on to other cinemas in Asia. With more than 16 gigabits per second of direct internet connectivity to more than 20 countries, Singapore intends to position itself as a regional digital distribution hub.
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Thought:
What does it means to you? It means, you are able to watch the newly released movies in Asia cinema like the others in US. It means, harder to make pirate copy. It may means, we can subscribe to watch movie online.
