Eventually, he contends, there will be lots of companies providing digital film content on the Web.
To try to sell it, Jobs made a short digital film to show what the machine could do.
Some see this as a shift in the attitude towards digital film, which had previously been considered inferior in quality.
At some point, he predicts, there will be little to distinguish the digital film offerings of Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Best Buy, Blockbuster and other providers.
Transporting the painting into such a different medium, however, took patience: The result is a mix of old-fashioned craftsmanship and the latest in digital film-making technology.
Although mainstream Hollywood films have been shot digitally for about the last 12 years, the first digital film to win an Oscar for best cinematography was Slumdog Millionaire in 2009.
But coupled with advances in technology, digital film equipment and online distribution, many young filmmakers say they see this as an opportunity to experiment with new and financially viable ways of making independent movies.
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Not only could digital equipment continuously become obsolete but so could the format that movies are stored in, according to both digital and film experts at Eastman Kodak.
And when advertising budgets shrank during the last few years, and media prices went up, even Google is expensive nowadays, opportunity came knocking for new kinds of ideas and thinking, the way was clear for the social media and innovative use of digital and film.
Unfortunately, as the digital camera and film world took hold, Kodak doubled down on its non-digital formats, while only dabbling in the digital space.
Eugene Hernandez, director of digital strategy, Film Society of Lincoln Center, had a different take.
One area that is gradually losing out to digital media is film.
After all, if their agency was an unclassifiable multitasking synthesis of digital art, film and graphic design, couldn't their fashion line be just as ambitious?
In 1999, when the studios began to discuss the need for a digital standard for film, all parties agreed they did not want any toll-takers such as Dolby.
The writer-director George Nolfi, by literalizing and supercharging what Dick sketched out, and adding gimcrack history and theology, has made a strenuously silly digital-action film, interrupted by a wheezing discourse about freedom and choice and other such profound matters.
In the early 1990s its engineers figured out how to squeeze a digital soundtrack onto a piece of film without losing the analog soundtrack, by putting the digital track into the spaces between the sprocket holes on a piece of film.
Fuji survived the transition from film to digital photography, even though Kodak went bankrupt.
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The Hitachi system uses a digital video camera to film reflections from mirrors surrounding an object.
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Syco Entertainment is a leading global music, television, film and digital production company.
Because Mr. Salgado switched from medium format film to digital black-and-white cameras midway through his eight-year journey, Mr. Taschen and Mrs.
Additionally, Lucasfilm Singapore, produces digital animated content for film and television, as well as visual effects for feature films and multi-platform games.
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Since there are so few digital cinemas--even theaters showing Episode II in digital have been loaned the equipment--the movie must to transferred from digital to plain old film.
The two-disc set available for purchase also includes a digital copy of the film and will be enabled with UltraViolet, a new way to collect, access and enjoy movies.
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But the technology required to display a digital 3-D film is so complicated it can't realistically be replicated at home, which could send interested viewers back to the silver screen.
UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
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The result is an impeccable digital restoration that celebrates the film and its place in cinematic history.
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Across Derbyshire, there are also no digital, but 113 wet film operated units.
Many of the cinemas are art houses, which have been helped to convert to digital projectors by the British Film Council.
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