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Local drive-ins work to find conversion funds

Oct 18, 2013 6:56 am
Kyle Adams is reporting in The Daily Mail the Honda Corporation’s Project Drive-in is now over and not one New York drive-in placed among the winners, including participants Greenville Drive-in and Coxsackie's Hi-Way Drive-in. The vote-based contest awarded nine theaters nationwide a full digital upgrade. The switch from 35mm projectors to digital models is seen as life or death for movie theaters as major Hollywood studios vow to end 35mm production by the end of this year. The cost of a digital conversion is approximately $80,000, per screen. With four screens, the conversion and renovation of its projector rooms will cost Hi-Way owner Roger Babcock approximately $300,000. He has been approved for a bank loan for the work, but has not committed to moving forward with the purchase. The Greenville Drive-in is working on plans to raise the conversion funds over the winter, or it may simply continue to show old 35mm films. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.