Second post...

Found an article at cinematech.blogspot.com The UK Film council has installed 50 digital projectors across the UK, amounting to just over 1% of all UK screens. Not much really, but then when you consider how many screens many Independent/foreign language/documentary film projects will go to, it's a possible market.

I need to do more research on exactly where these screens are, and the screening format, are they working from Tape, HDD, optical disc or what? Also do they conform to the DCI specs, or will the Europeans follow a different route to the American D-Cinema system

One year ago, this story announced that the film council were investing £11.5m in a "digital cinema" network, just over a year later it seems we're only 20% of the way into that programme. this page lists the most recently completed installations. There's a depressing number of Cineworlds, Vues and Odeons in there, seeing as there was supposed to be a commitment to Digital cinema opening up to the independent film sector.

However, this all harks back to the early 80s, when the Multiplexes began, that there would be screens for all tastes, which instead turned out to be blockbusters playing on multiple screens. At the local Vue, Oscar winning-or-nominated films like Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Good Night, And Good Luck stayed a week before being shunted off. Fun With Dick And Jane, however is in its third week, despite its death at the box office. Old habits die hard it seems.