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by pmjordan 6358 days ago
They're slow to switch. Mostly because consumer HD pales in comparison to 35mm film, quality wise, when you blow it up to a diagonal of 6-8 metres or so. As far as I know, digital cinema projectors have a "4K" resolution (4000 x ~2000) and are fed the film from a stack of terabyte hard disks. The projectors are SERIOUS money.