>What's already happening is the up/download of movies to the movie theater >via satellite - no more need to duplicate film stock. Does anyone in >this group >have more info on the supposed digitalization of the film-making process? > >Dave Skreiner >Editor, DVD-Home Magazine (Germany) Dave, There is a lot of info on digital filmmaking in the book The Dictionary of New Media available at http://HEPdigital.com or Amazon and also available online at http://Readfilm.com All the necessary terms are explained and cross-referenced. There are a number of articles and essays on the subject on the DVD-ROM How To Read a Film, available from the same sources. There is no doubt Hollywood is going digital. Ask Kodak! A personal note: People are impressed with digital video for the same reason they were impressed with digital audio: it is so "clean!" But to me, both are cold and empty Greshamite subterfuges next to analog audio and film. That may change in ten or twenty years with increased bandwidth. By then we will have spent half a century digitizing images and sounds and at last approach the quality we had with the 19th-century analog technologies we started with! As for the introductory "film" course, there's no doubt you start with a Mini-DV or DVCam camera and a G4 Mac with Final Cut Pro and iDVD. Total cost probably less than $5,000 with your educational discount. Your students will likely never see a "film" camera anyway, except in a museum. The problem is that we don't have a word that encompasses all audio-video technologies so we still call it "film" and that confuses many people. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= James Monaco Harbor Electronic Publishing 212 777 5463 sales:800 269 6422 How To Read a Film DVD-ROM on sale now at http://readfilm.com Elvis Sinatra (Mostly) Live DVD-Video on sale now at http://ElvisSinatra.com ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu