Ready to escape the usual crowd at the movie theater and host your own premieres at home?
Prima Cinema
has an answer, with the minor requirement of $35,000 (and a few other
details) to get your home theater ready for first-run movies. Just as
we'd heard
when it first popped up a couple of years ago,
that large setup fee buys the Cinema Player, a rack-mountable box
loaded with a 2TB hard drive and enough DRM to keep the studios happy,
plus a wired fingerprint reader used to ensure the owner's identity.
Movies download automatically to its hard drive in the background so
they're already there when the owner chooses to unlock them for viewing.
That privilege costs $500 ($600 for 3D), good for one showing within 24
hours. Check after the break for more of our impressions after a quick
preview at Prima's
CEDIA 2013 booth, then prep your black card for the pricey purchase.
