RSSMedia's NMT Blog

George Lucas' 'War of the Worlds' is the focus of a piece on Wired about digital cinema production. The article is detailed about hardware and also explores the implications for mainstream Hollywood - very useful for thinking about how institutions benefit from new media technologies. Given the recent news about digital projection technology, it looks likely that the days of using film to make films are numbered. Steven Soderbergh is also in on the act, making digital films that can be released at the cinema, on DVD and on TV at the same time. The rhetoric refers to consumer choice, but someone somewhere must think there's money in it. One thing is clear: cinema's future is digital.