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A DCP can be reproduced and distributed easily.
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Hard disk
- USB-3 interface compatible with USB-2
- Separate electrical power supply for greater reliability
- Delivered in a mini-case
The least expensive for medium- and feature-length films -
USB drive
- Compact size, low price
- Maximum length: 16 min (32 GB); 32 min (64 GB); for longer films, hard drives are a better solution
- Long ingest time: 2x real time
The least expensive for short films -
Internet
Charbon offers online DCP archiving for backup and distribution purposes.
- Storage in three different data centres for maximum reliability
- 100-mbps bandwidth
- Standard distribution included in the price (average of 1 download per week over a month)
- Mass distribution option available using cloud computing, invoiced per download
- download time for a cinema connected at high speed (fibre or cable type, 50 Mbits/s): 5x real time
The most flexible and durable of the DCP distribution media... but few cinemas recover films in this way, preferring either discs or pipes specially installed by their distributors.