Deluxe "eCinema" delivery service is coming in December

[Jon Dent]

So here we are a year later, we've got the Deluxe system in place and it's working fine, and NOW I get an e-mail from DCDC wanting to sign us up! And of course they dropped the price, so it's lower than what Deluxe is charging, but I'm wondering if it would be worth the fuss and bother to switch over. There is still the concern that the content might not stay on DCDC long enough if we play something off the break -- although that's getting to be less of a concern these days.

I'm not even sure how long the Deluxe contract is, does anyone know offhand? I know I have it around here somewhere but can't seem to lay my hands on it.

They did the same thing to us. We got stonewalled when we approached them in 2021. Too late. Deluxe might be more expensive but I have faith in their infrastructure, and it's worked great so far.

[Mike Blakesley]

What's the price difference? Deluxe is $25 per delivery for ecinema.

$16.67 per movie, is what they quoted me. Still no charge for the equipment.

It's kind of interesting in their brochure they show the rooftop installation of the "ballasted dish receiver" that can be removed without damaging the roof. It's basically a small dish antenna attached to a platform that is weighted down by 8 standard cinder blocks and the whole thing sits on a rubber mat. I'm not sure if that would hold up to some of the winds we get around here!

[Darin Steffl]

What's the price difference? Deluxe is $25 per delivery for ecinema.

DCDC is a more complicated setup with a dish needing to be installed and coax run inside. I'm not saying it's hard but it's more work than just plugging a 1ru server into ethernet.

[Mike Blakesley]

So here we are a year later, we've got the Deluxe system in place and it's working fine, and NOW I get an e-mail from DCDC wanting to sign us up! And of course they dropped the price, so it's lower than what Deluxe is charging, but I'm wondering if it would be worth the fuss and bother to switch over. There is still the concern that the content might not stay on DCDC long enough if we play something off the break -- although that's getting to be less of a concern these days.

I'm not even sure how long the Deluxe contract is, does anyone know offhand? I know I have it around here somewhere but can't seem to lay my hands on it.

[Mike Blakesley]

Now if they would just do the KDMs life would be good.

[Jon Dent]

Sony finally sees the light.....

Just got a digital upload of Lyle Lyle Crocodile.

[Marcel Birgelen]

Like Carsten indicated, they do so in Europe, but were reluctant to do so. I guess it's Sony being Sony. If it would depend entirely on them, we'd be receiving movies on some kind of weird optical format only a specialized Sony device can read. It would come with countless issues and once they're solved, they'd discontinue it.

[Carsten Kurz]

Sony was the last studio to use electronic delivery in germany (Gofilex). Don't know for the rest of europe.

[Jon Dent]

I get Sony stuff (and everything else) via the Cinesend (Deluxe e-delivery) service.

Now that's odd, unless they're allowing digital distribution outside of the US for some reason.

[Frank Cox]

I get Sony stuff (and everything else) via the Cinesend (Deluxe e-delivery) service.

Just got Bullet Train earlier this week for tomorrow night's show.

Haven't got Crawdads since I'm not playing it for a couple of weeks yet, but I'd be surprised if it shows up as a hard drive.

I just checked and the last movies I got on hard drives were Resident Evil and Sing 2. So it's been a while.

[Mike Blakesley]

Given Sony's history with all things online, I guess I'm not surprised.

[Jon Dent]

If it's any other studio than Sony it was likely a booking goof. Like Deluxe said, Sony refuses to allow digital distribution for some reason, and Crawdads is theirs.

[Mike Blakesley]

Most recently we got Where the Crawdads Sing and DC Super Pets on HD. I emailed Deluxe, they told me Crawdads was not distributed on broadband, and Pets was apparently sent on HD by mistake. So…. must be a booking or programming good?

[Marcel Birgelen]

I get Hard drives STILL. Been asking for eCinema delivery for 4 years. For some reason, they don't want to give it to certain types of cinemas in my region.
Anyway, I get DCP delivery, physical, about 1-2 times per year for films I never Booked. It's not new. My guess it's a slip of the mouse button click. I just roll my eyes and think, there goes $100 for services rendered, not needed. And move on.

Maybe the relatively high cost of broadband Internet connectivity has something to do with it? E-delivery has been the norm around here for quite a while now.

[Gordon McLeod]

We still receive a number of cru drives at each location but the number has dropped. I dont think it is a big deal being 5.1 never was a great fan of the separate rear wall channel as I find it like ATMOS tends to pull on out of the screen and back into the theatre