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Shortly after midnight on May 19, 2005, Brooklyn's Pavilion Theatre premiered Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith.
2005年5月19日剛過午夜，布魯克林劇院的里的星戰首映式：第三部，西斯的復仇開始了。
It was the first time that a digitally projected movie graced its screens.
這是首部數字電影登陸大銀幕的歷史時刻。
Nearly a decade later small theaters around the country are being forced to go digital.
近二十年后各地的小劇場都被迫進入數字化時代。
Paramount Pictures recently released the Wolf of Wall Street only as a digital version only—no celluloid.
派拉蒙影業最近剛發布的 《華爾街的狼》就只有數字版的，沒錯，沒有膠片版。
It's the first time a big studio has done this with a major release.
這是大制作公司第一次進行這種數字格式發布影片。
It won't be the last.
而它將不會是最后一部。
In addition to a new projector, small movie houses need networking capability to download 80-gigabyte movie files.
除了需要一部新的放映機，小型電影放映廳還需要網絡接入并下載80G大小的影片文件。
Back in 2005, the Pavilion paid $80,000 for its digital set up.
回首2005年，布魯克林劇院的放映廳可是花費了8萬美元來弄來這個數字播放設備。
Some small movie houses are turning to crowd-funding sites to pay for the conversion.
小型放映廳正在轉變成密集投資支付版本更替帶來的設備更新的場所。
Results are mixed.
結果顯然不是這樣。
The single-screen Tampa Pitcher Show in Florida collected less than $8,000 of the $30,000 it tried to raise on Kickstarter.
佛羅里達州的單屏顯示公司 Tampa Pitcher Show才募集不到8000美金距離計劃從Kickstarter公司申請的3萬美金還少很多。
But San Francisco's Roxie reached its $60,000 goal.
不過舊金山Roxie公司卻成功實現6萬美金的募集金目標。
Either way, that familiar ticking that tells you a film is about to start will soon be just a memory. Or a digital copy.
無論什么方式轉變，熟悉的膠片影片開始播放前的倒計時畫面很快就將成為又一個記憶中的畫面了。
