Let's say you bought a huge home theater system. Now you can watch something exciting without leaving your home. Just how to do it? Any teenager knows a couple of sites from which you can download anything for free. But, firstly, it is illegal, and secondly, on such sites the same picture may not appear, or there is a film, but in a terrible quality. For those who respect the law, love high-quality images and want to choose what to watch, there are online cinemas. Tvzavr cinema specialists invited PM to visit and told how it works.

What does an online cinema consist of? There are three key points here: format universalization, content selection and statistics.

Universal format

First of all, you need to make sure that the content is available to everyone. So that you can watch a movie or a cartoon from any device - a smart TV, laptop, tablet or mobile phone, the programmers of the online cinema translate all content into a universal format. Both an old computer and a brand new 4K Smart TV system will read it.

And if you are at the end of the earth and your Internet is slow, versions of the same film in different qualities come to the rescue. On the servers of the online cinema Tvzavr, for example, each movie is stored in different versions, in quality from 480 to 4K. When broadcasting, the capacity of your channel is taken into account: if the transmission speed suddenly drops, then you will still watch the film - even if in the worst quality: the files will simply be connected, for which transmission the lower channel bandwidth is needed.

The online cinema does not control the route that packets with your cinema take from the cinema server to the device - this is done by providers. But if someone recently watched the same movie near you, then the movie is stored in the cache of the nearest server for some time, which means that the path to your device becomes very short, and the probability of interruptions is reduced to very small values.

Content is everything

Films, TV series and cartoons are bought directly from the copyright holders by online cinemas. Therefore, the money that you pay for viewing also goes to the copyright holder.

New items appear in the Internet cinema rather quickly - as much as legal subtleties allow. Sometimes not even a day passes between the premiere at the box office and the appearance of a film in the cinema, and sometimes you need to wait 3 - 4 weeks. If the rights to show the film are bought by the central TV channel, the waiting time may increase.

Each cinema independently determines which films to purchase from copyright holders. As a rule, in cinemas you can find classics, domestic and foreign hits of recent years, cartoons and TV series. Sometimes the abundance of content makes it possible to create separate projects: Tvzavr, for example, has "Russian Cinema" (for Smart TV and mobile devices). The idea of ​​the project is to collect in one library everything that was filmed on the territory of the former USSR, and these are tapes of Lenfilm, Odessa Film Studio, Armenfilm and dozens of other film studios. The main consumer of Soviet and new Russian cinema is Russian-speaking citizens abroad.

In addition, Tvzavr subtitles Russian films in foreign languages ​​so that foreign viewers can also appreciate Soviet and Russian cinema. Specialists of an online cinema can tell a lot about what they watch in different countries. Thus, domestic cinema, it turns out, is highly valued by Chinese viewers, and films that have not become particularly popular in their homeland receive special recognition.