Much of that investment will go toward converting shows into digital cable format, building an ad sales division and paying to beam programming cross-country by satellite.
This patented technology ensures that only real fingerprints are read by converting the properties of the skin into digital data which are delivered to the host computer for analysis.
The original digital source file of the feature will also come in handy for converting the feature for DVD and television versions down the road, Swartz says.
While it's widely agreed that the results of digital projection are stunningly impressive, the industry is struggling over how to cover the costs of converting more than 36, 000 screens in the U.S. alone.