Understanding Digital Cinema
Digital cinema refers to digital adoption of new digital technologies in the film industry to digitally transfer or encode moving images as against the conventional use of reels, which include 35mm film. It is, however, different from computer-based and virtual reality video games that are often called digital video games, because in digital video games the player controls the action through interaction with a computer program. Digital cinema, on the other hand, refers to the actual conversion of an existing film to digital format using special devices such as special digital cameras, or by digital manipulation of existing film negatives. This digital process of conversion is known as digital video production (DVR). Though the term digital cinema itself seems vague, it actually refers to any form of digital communication, including films, television, and music that have been encoded in some form of digital signal and can be decoded by a compatible digital computer. With the acceptance ...