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Chuck Collins, an executive at Georgia-based Digital Projection, Inc., recalled that the first movie shown digitally at Sundance wasn't part of the competition, but Stefan Avalos and Lance Weilers' The Last Broadcast.
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"It's quite amusing, looking back," Collins said.
"At the time, most of the filmmakers in the audience hated video.
It was almost sacrilegious. ,How dare a video person come in and attempt to say that video looks as good as film?' In some respects, they were right.
But over time, as video has gotten better, people have changed their tune."
Sundance attendees weren't initially sold on digital projection either, Collins said.
But in 2000, his company set up three digital projectors at Sundance venues, and five years later, they were putting their projectors, based on Texas Instruments' DLP (digital light processor) chip, into every screening venue, so that movies in either film or digital form could be shown.