Signiant Corp.'s Tom Ohanian lays out his thinking as to why 2009 will be the year digital distribution and exhibition turns the corner and becomes a mainstream thing. Of the couple main points Ohanian presents, the one that strikes me as the most important is the fact that it gives exhibitors the ability to change things up pretty easily. When high-profile flops wind up taking up valuable screen space they can be swapped out when other movies that could prove more lucrative. To be sure, things are still a long ways off in terms of everyone getting on board the digital bus, especially since the recent deal between exhibitors and studios doesn't seem to include the smaller, independent screens. But, as Ohanian says, the next couple years should prove transformative in this realm. ...
- 10/16/2008
- by Chris Thilk
- Spout
Deluxe Digital Studios has responded to increasing market requirements to move content around quickly.
Deluxe Digital Studios, a division of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, has chosen manufacturer Signiant's digital content distribution system.
The software-based system has many uses. Productions can send content from location to postproduction; a director can review a cut remotely; or a company can send finished features to foreign countries for day-and-date release.
Signiant's file-based Digital Media Distribution Management System was designed as an automated and secure global transmission process that operates over existing Internet connections.
Signiant's chief strategy officer Tom Ohanian -- no stranger to filmmaking; he won an Academy Award for the co-development of the Avid editing system -- said that some Signiant customers already are saving upward of six figures per month using Dmdms compared with physical distribution of content.
"Postproduction and distribution of films has become more complex, especially as releasing films simultaneously...
Deluxe Digital Studios, a division of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, has chosen manufacturer Signiant's digital content distribution system.
The software-based system has many uses. Productions can send content from location to postproduction; a director can review a cut remotely; or a company can send finished features to foreign countries for day-and-date release.
Signiant's file-based Digital Media Distribution Management System was designed as an automated and secure global transmission process that operates over existing Internet connections.
Signiant's chief strategy officer Tom Ohanian -- no stranger to filmmaking; he won an Academy Award for the co-development of the Avid editing system -- said that some Signiant customers already are saving upward of six figures per month using Dmdms compared with physical distribution of content.
"Postproduction and distribution of films has become more complex, especially as releasing films simultaneously...
- 8/21/2008
- by By Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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