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Stuart · 29-07-2007, 16:57

It's swings and roundabouts. Yes, at home, you don't have to put up with little scrotes ruining the film, but, you do have to put up with a relatively small screen. Yes, you may have a 60 inch plasma, or a 5 foot projector screen, but even those aren't nearly as big as your average cinema screen. On the plus side, at home you can stop/start the film when you want. The refreshment thing isn't really an issue, as, in my experience, most cinemas don't stop you taking in your own. They can't, unless they do bag searches (OK, so the larger cinemas do this, but most don't.).

I don't think Cinema is going to die anytime soon. Yes, celluloid is relatively expensive, but a lot of cinemas are being upgraded with digital projectors that just use standard digital video files (usually WMV), which can be stored on disk (although current optical discs don't usually have enough storage).

29-07-2007, 16:57	#12
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Cinema rant - grrrr It's swings and roundabouts. Yes, at home, you don't have to put up with little scrotes ruining the film, but, you do have to put up with a relatively small screen. Yes, you may have a 60 inch plasma, or a 5 foot projector screen, but even those aren't nearly as big as your average cinema screen. On the plus side, at home you can stop/start the film when you want. The refreshment thing isn't really an issue, as, in my experience, most cinemas don't stop you taking in your own. They can't, unless they do bag searches (OK, so the larger cinemas do this, but most don't.). I don't think Cinema is going to die anytime soon. Yes, celluloid is relatively expensive, but a lot of cinemas are being upgraded with digital projectors that just use standard digital video files (usually WMV), which can be stored on disk (although current optical discs don't usually have enough storage).