东宝与东映等日本电影发行公司已经进入了演出体制的变革。前者与NTT西日本公司及日本总务省合作,正在从事利用高速网络将数字化的电影新片发送到影院,并在那里上映的验证实验。后者与日本JSAT合作,也在开展利用通信卫星将影片内容发送到影院的实验。东宝与NTT西日本将使用在短时间内可以收发大容量数据的光纤(其传输速率为1Gbps),把定于今年7月公开的动画影片“探寻千的奥秘”发 Toho and Toei and other Japanese movie distribution companies have entered the transformation of the performance system. The former, in collaboration with NTT West Japan and Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, is engaged in verification experiments that use high-speed networks to send digitized new films to cinemas and publish them there. The latter, in collaboration with Japan’s JSAT, is also experimenting with the use of communications satellites to send video content to theaters. Toho and NTT West Japan will use optical fiber that can send and receive large amounts of data in a short period of time (at a transfer rate of 1Gbps), and publish an animated film “Discover the Mysteries of the Thousands” scheduled for launch in July this year