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To: kearnyirish2
Well now that they are showing videos instead of films (which put your brain into a different tropic state because of the strobed still images as opposed to alternating updating scanlines), you may as well watch at home (on screens larger than the 20 inch televisions of old).

There are technologies that are not in the home yet. I have yet to see a three-D movie and know there are a number of processes. One used for the Hobbit film used a faster refresh rate (just as IMAX films use faster frame rates) and that would be a unique viewing experience.

I went to the final Python performance but that was a live event. In the past I've been to a screening of a concert video (often scheduled about a month before the DVD release for Coachella or Ladies & Gentlemen The Rolling Stones).

I go see a movie in the theater when I get a free pass (maybe once every year or two) or sometimes a revival/repertoire screening at a museum on actual film).

13 posted on 12/24/2014 5:07:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

I’m not familiar with the technology involved.

I think a lot of people prefer to watch in the comfort of their home rather than be surrounded by hordes of strangers that look & speak less and less like them. They can pause it, watch it multiple times, share it, etc. - at a fraction of the cost, and eating whatever they’d like.

Theaters probably still have a small niche with young people, but I wouldn’t think it is large enough for constructing the large multiplexes. I rarely go, but a movie like “Saving Private Ryan” (where it literally sounds like bullets are whizzing past you with the surround-sound) was definitely worth seeing in a theater.


16 posted on 12/24/2014 8:21:05 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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