Well this story is rather topical as we are currently in Dublin for the Darklight Digital Film Festival and the makers for these fine pieces of technology we were drinking Guinness with last night [hence the late feed ;-)]. You are going to hear more and more about “Digital Projection” as “The Phantom Menace [To Society]” takes over the global media networks to using these latest toys that projectionists are gagging for since they worked through their complete back catalogue of Spanish porno’s. However, if the mayhem of the Lucarse prequel, few people have realised or even cared that only 5 percent of its 130 minutes are free of digital enhancements and even less know [or care] that the technology being used is also digital.But, old Georgie boy was not in fact the first to use this technology on a large scale ... it was The Last Broadcast boys [see issue//049] Lance Weiler and Stefan Avalos of Wavelength Releasing, [who also we were drinking with last night] that debuted it for their seven city satellite sessions last year. “Digital technology has invaded everything,” Lance, rather catching commented in a recent New York Times article, who envisions that the digital distribution of movies will eliminate the need for costly prints of 35-millimeter films as well as for the money and time needed to ship them around the world. However, it might make celluloid at thing of the past, but if you want to get Mike “and the Mechanics” Hood from Digital Projection, a maker of projection systems to come and install one, it is going to cost you more than $900.