Digitizing of public screennings

The master diploma thesis ?Digitizing of Public Screenings? deals with the forthcoming digitisation of film distribution. It tries to monitor the present ?transitional? period and to describe the course of the imminent change in the upcoming years. Its aim is to familiarise the readers with the basic concepts used in the digital cinema in the most comprehensible way. It compares the digital and classical film projection while describing their technological and economical advantages and disadvantages. It describes technical parameters of the currently available digital projection devices, the likely development thereof, and the new 3D digital technologies. It deals with new norms imposed by the American initiative ?Digital Cinema Initiatives?, and the French ?AFNOR?. Finally, it compares the already functioning transition from the classical film distribution towards digital forms in the USA, trying to present possible transition models for Europe, where conditions are different