One of the advantages of transferring analog films into the digital domain is that almost everything looks better, thus it makes less difference what your origination medium was. Although we reserve the right to reject "prints" for reasons of excessively poor quality, if you can deliver a clean "print" which is not more than two analog generations from your edited master, that should be sufficient no matter what your origination medium was. Of course the better the material you deliver to us, the better it will look on the Internet. For instance a well-lit 16mm film can look better than a poorly-lit 35mm film even though 35mm has the potential to look many times better than 16mm film.
In order to deliver films to moviegoers at Low Bandwidth (e.g., 56Kbps) they have to be compressed more so a given running time can "squeeze" down a very "thin" wire, usualy a phone line. Thus they don't look that great unless viewed in a small area. Films that are delivered for Medium and High Bandwidth users don't have to be compressed as much thus they are much larger files carrying more information. But because these files ARE large, they must be delivered over a faster connection (e.g., cable, DSL, wireless) to result in a show with the same given running time. One CAN download a "Medium or High Bandwidth" show over a slower connection, but it will take a VERY long time to receive. For instance it takes about 2 hours to download a 20 megabyte file at a data rate of 56Kbps
On the other hand digital picture and sound delivered at zero or little compression taken directly from a 35mm negative edited in the digital universe and downloaded as video-on-demand over an extended download time, and/or an extremely high-speed OC-3 line, for instance, will result in quality levels above what you can get from a DVD in a video store or watch in a motion picture theater.
At this time broadband is growing at aproximately 90% a year while the Internet on the whole is growing at about 11%.
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