Projecting Terminator Genesys battery power will be back

Jul 1, 2015 07:29 GMT  ·  By

A photo posted on Reddit shows a preview of Terminator Genesys being suddenly cut off by a Windows 8.1 low battery warning on a laptop.

Now, if anyone of you is thinking how is this even possible it's best to keep in mind two things, digital cinema runs on special files just like any other .avi, .mkv or any general purpose format and it is being read by a digital player.

Don't get me wrong though, this doesn't mean these are really .avis or .mkvs, rather they usually are MXF files arriving in DGPs (Digital Cinema Packages) that are brought to cinemas in physical form, yes we now replaced film reels with HDDs, and get copied on local servers via USB disks.

The MXF files are compressed in JPEG 2000 standard and total around 300GB, six times the size of a Blu-ray disc, and are "ingested" directly into the projector together with a decryption key that expires at a certain date.

However, what we're seeing here is probably a playlist of trailers that come separately from the films themselves in much smaller formats of a few hundred megabytes, and can be played separately, even on a laptop.

We can only imagine what the projectionist was actually thinking during those moments, except trying to get to the "charga" as fast as possible!