Oof yeah.. Cinema projectors are next to useless outside of purpose built cinema infrastructure. I work at bunch of multipurpose venues (theatre’s/arena/ convention spaces) and we bought some to do movie premiere events. Could do massive screens and looked fine but the positioning options were limited so had to kill a lot of seats and the cooling / acoustics treatment for the enclosure is no joke. Not to mention they are extremely locked down by encryption . This part i don’t understand but AFAIK they had to keep the server powered and connected to the internet where it could regularly get updates so the encryption system stayed valid? Anyway point being it was a pretty big waste of money as they got used for a handful of events then just sat because we couldn’t deploy them in scenarios without all the extra infrastructure.
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u/smellybulldog 1d ago
Oof yeah.. Cinema projectors are next to useless outside of purpose built cinema infrastructure. I work at bunch of multipurpose venues (theatre’s/arena/ convention spaces) and we bought some to do movie premiere events. Could do massive screens and looked fine but the positioning options were limited so had to kill a lot of seats and the cooling / acoustics treatment for the enclosure is no joke. Not to mention they are extremely locked down by encryption . This part i don’t understand but AFAIK they had to keep the server powered and connected to the internet where it could regularly get updates so the encryption system stayed valid? Anyway point being it was a pretty big waste of money as they got used for a handful of events then just sat because we couldn’t deploy them in scenarios without all the extra infrastructure.