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Consumers Prefer Movies At Home
Ubergrendle writes "A poll conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the Associated Press and AOL confirmed that 73% of movie viewers prefer to watch movies at home rather than at a theater. This article comes on the heels of a consistently poor box office this year, even despite the presence of the new Star Wars film. Despite this demand for home viewing, only 5% admitted to downloading a movie from the internet."
Well wonder why?
Movie Theater
Ticket: $9.25 x 2 = $18.50
Popcorn: $3.75 (would you like a large for $2.00 more?)
Beverage: $4.25 (would you like a xxl with free refills for $2.00 more?)
Candy: $3.00
Going home and getting laid: Priceless.
Home Theater
Rental: $4.00
Popcorn: $1.00
12 Pack of Coors Ligh: $9.99 + deposit
Candy: $1.24
Turning Gili off, and getting laid: Priceless.
Only $9.50?
Dude, where I live movies can cost as much as $16 CDN per person. Even after the conversion, I wish I had it as good as $9.50.
Hint: Try the "next chapter" button. Does the trick for me.
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actually most theaters do have captioning, you just have to ask for the mirror thing that goes in your armrest.
article w/diagrams here
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
I think that the best thing I've read on this issue lately is an article in the New Yorker by Louis Menand. It is about the historical perspective (TV robbing movies of their dominance, the rise of the blockbuster, etc.).
r at_atlarge
Here's the url:
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?050207c
My favorite quote:
And what is the main cinematic experience? The tickets, including the surcharge for ordering online, cost about the same as the monthly cable bill. A medium popcorn is five dollars; the smallest bottled water is three. The show begins with twenty minutes of commercials, spots promoting the theatre chain, and previews for movies coming out next Memorial Day, sometimes a year from next Memorial Day. The feature includes any combination of the following: wizards; slinky women of few words; men of few words who can expertly drive anything, spectacularly wreck anything, and leap safely from the top of anything; characters from comic books, sixth-grade world-history textbooks, or "Bulfinch's Mythology"; explosions; phenomena unknown to science; a computer whiz with attitude; a brand-name soft drink, running shoe, or candy bar; an incarnation of pure evil; more explosions; and the voice of Robin Williams. The movie feels about twenty minutes too long; the reviews are mixed; nobody really loves it; and it grosses several hundred million dollars.
applies most places(even here in Canada), but not in the States. The ominous DMCA prohibits the circumvention of any copy-protection mechanism, and I imagine(as it's so loosely written), that it also extends to bypassing it by downloading content from someone else who has himself bypassed it.
But IANAL