Movie theatres soon to download their films

The way films are distributed to cinemas might soon know a real revolution currently brewing in Hollywood think-tanks. Currently, movies are distributed under the shape of reels, and more exceptionnaly of hard-disks. Now these guys are seriously thinking about sending them directly through satellite link or securized high-speed connections. The films would then be stored on the local hard-disks for the duration of their display.
Studios see a great benefit in this system, whose flexibility would allow movie theatres to change their programmes more frequently. But their main interest is to implement a straight link from producter to consumer, thus getting rid of the all these intermediaries likely to make illegal copies of the film.
This system is still in the stage of feasability study, but wide-spread implementation of optical cable networks in the coming years will sure help it topple the current one.