What about movie theaters, now that home systems are getting closer to replicating the in-theater experience without all of the drawbacks, I think we’ll start to see big drops in movie theater attendance.
As long as studios make movies available to theatres first, they will always exist. Besides, it's safer for a woman to go to the movies with a guy for a first or second date, than to be at one person's home or another to watch a DVD. Also, some things are really better when viewed by a group. Laughing out loud at a romantic comedy is always more fun with a theatre crowd!
I’ve certainly not felt a great urge to shell out huge sums of money to go watch movies in a theatre since we purchased our widescreen/bigsceen HDTV home theatre.