The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition has announced that 2023 was its highest performing year ever with 410,000 feature and event files, representing nearly 100 million gigabytes of data delivered to in-network theaters. The company said this volume far exceeds pre-pandemic levels from 2019 and more than made up for the reduced number of wide releases by increasing delivery of independent film releases by 87 percent.
The company also celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2023. The entity, founded by both exhibition and distribution businesses has more than 3,125 sites representing more than 33,300 screens across the U.S. with more sites scheduled to be installed in 2024.
DCDC more than doubled its number of event cinema releases including 42 live presentations in 2023 with titles like Metallica M72 World Tour, Q&A panels, many UFC and AEW events, and College Football Playoffs.
DCDC reached a new milestone as their live theatrical footprint surpassed 1,195 sites an increase of 146 percent since 2019. That continues to expand.
Howard Kiedaisch, CEO of DCDC said, “Being an industry owned coalition, we need to thank all our partners on the content and exhibition side for their support. It is gratifying to help the market by enabling more players in the industry to take advantage of our not-for-profit model. We will continue to expand our services while looking to drive down prices even further.”
In the last ten years, since its launch in October 2013, the DCDC satellite delivery network has grown remarkably in sites, content providers, vendor partners, and types of programming. We are now filling in many locations via a growing terrestrial footprint as well.”
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