Package | Digital Cinema

They plug it into the —the projector's hardened computer. The server begins "ingesting": verifying every single byte of the 300 GB file against a checksum list. If one single bit is wrong—one pixel of the actor’s left eye in frame 45,672—the entire ingest fails. The cinema will call the distributor in a panic. A new KDM must be issued. The movie is delayed.

The true art of the DCP, however, is not in its storage, but in its . At 9 AM on a Thursday, a theatre projectionist (now more systems administrator than showman) receives a hard drive via courier, or downloads the package from a satellite or fiber line. digital cinema package