On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:40:43PM +0530, Amit Varma wrote: > Those two don't seem connected to me. The movie-watching experience at a big > screen, whether at a multiplex or a stand-alone, is entirely different from > watching a VCD at home. How many people on this list think they are
Of course it is different -- you don't have to watch ads for 45-60 minutes, suffer travel and rubbing shoulders with rude strangers, have your refreshment at arm length and pay the equivalent of a restaurant visit. Complete win/win, which is why we never go to cinemas anymore (I've got angry enough about the experience the last time, and complained to the operator about the endless advertisements, including several implying I am a criminal -- he claimed the price would be even higher than it already is -- I said, fair enough, then he just lost us as customers for good). For some reason I never buy movies, rent and rerip to remove advertisements, extras, and sundry other junk before watching. FullHD video projectors are getting cheaper all the time. Decent projections screen unfortunately not, but they're more or less affordable. Sound surround systems are cheap enough to be almost free. > substitutable, and would cancel a plan to go see a film at the theatre > because they found a VCD of the film that they can watch in their living VCD? What's that? > room? To use a loose analogy, restaurants don't go out of business because > people can cook at home. It's just a different category of experience. You can assume that restaurants would go out of business if world-class chefs were affordable kitchen appliances. We can't digitize the food experience; not yet. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
