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.
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June 8th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
Isn’t that what’s happenning now. We even get to watch movies even before it releases in the US!
I don’t think this will help fight piracy.
June 8th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
now it is very easy to make extra copies of movie while transporting the flim. the digital movie file transfer will solve this problem.
June 8th, 2005 at 5:38 pm
If the rates are reasonable and our providers constantly f*cking up then I’d invest in this. However, I would want items bought with the movie. Kinda like LOTR and the figurines sold together.
June 8th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
digitalizing the movie prolly makes piracy even easier.
June 9th, 2005 at 10:24 am
exactly, red. Digitizing movies will probably makes it easier to copy. Well, you can put all types of security features and encryption, but at the end of the day, it boils down to the human factor. With a lil money, people can do some ‘amazing’ (and illegal) things.