Running a movie theater is more expensive than you can possibly imagine
These costs seem absurd!<p>&gt; Media block: $7,000-$40,000 &quot;helps convert the digital cinema package provided by a studio into data that can be projected with picture and sound&quot;<p>So, a laptop that can take a file in one format and convert it to another format? Why even have a different format for a projector?<p>&gt; Digital library server: $12,000-$27,000 &quot;These provide storage to hold multiple movies&quot;<p>So, a movie on a hard drive right next to the projector is too complicated?<p>To me, it sounds like both of these can be replaced with a $2,000 laptop.<p>Is the whole thing just so that the file is DRM-ed to hard that nothing else except expensive equipment can play it?