Jesse Skeen
Senior HTF Member
- Joined
- Apr 24, 1999
- Messages
- 5,037
Well, it's why I don't bother going to theaters anymore. I can get the same experience at home, without the annoyances.
Not always as I've been to a few movie theaters in which a home theater can't compete with.Well, it's why I don't bother going to theaters anymore. I can get the same experience at home, without the annoyances.
Theaters can have all the fancy equipment they can buy, but there can still be all sorts of technical glitches (focus, brightness, calibration, screen ratio/masking, sound to loud or too soft, dirty/ripped/stained screens, rattling/broken speakers) that make the experience less than enjoyable, not to mention dealing with other patrons, sticky floors, broken seats, stale food, flat soda, etc., all of which can be easily avoided/fixed/adjusted in the HT, but not at the theater where you can complain 'til Christmas but nothing is done to fix anything.I don't have Dolby Cinema nor IMAX screening rooms at home; I don't even have a 70mm projector, not to mention a sound system with umpteen number of speakers all around and above me.
When I can replicate all that at home, then my experience will be as good or better than at the theater. Otherwise, no.
However, it still takes a very special movie to motivate me to venture out of my HT.
Things like this is why I go to my local arthouse theater whenever possible. 10 minutes trailers max.
It’s clearly a business decision that the guaranteed payment for the ad is worth more than whatever customers they’d be losing.
I’m content to care less and go less.