Making history on June 6, 2000, 20th Century Foxs TITAN A.E. was beamed digitally from a remote location to an Atlanta theater during the Supercomm trade show. The film was sent from Qwest Communications Cyber Center in Burbank, California using a secure Internet transmission protocol developed by Cisco Systems Inc. Up until now, digital projection systems played the movies on the screen from DVD-like disks. Many studios, however, question the security of sending their top-secret premieres over satellite and Internet lines. Once coding concerns are adequately met, film studios could save millions on the costs of making film prints and delivering those copies. Qwests president of Internet and multimedia markets, Lewis Wilks, said, "This digital cinema demonstration... proves that the broadband technology and capacity are available today to make this form of film distribution a widespread reality."
Read more about TITAN A.E. in a candid interview with Gary Goldman in Animation World Magazine.
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