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."

Comments

HA!

[TripMaster Monkey]

This is what I have been telling everyone for years!

Let's go over the pros and cons, shall we?

• Home Theater: You have full control over the movie. You can pause it while fixing a snack or visiting the little moviegoers' room...you can rewind to watch an exciting scene again, you can fast-forward past the boring bits, etc.
  Theater: You lose. You have no control. Don't you go to the bathroom...cause I'm not gonna tell you what you missed.
  
• Home Theater: You are in the privacy of your own home...you commute is zero, you are among friends.
  Theater: You drive x number of miles to be squeezed into a packed, filthy theater with unidentifiable gunk coating the floors and other 'movie patrons' who smell like either really bad milk or really good cheese.
  
• Home Theater: You can dress (or undress) as you please...you can watch your movie in your stocking feet, in a bathrobe, or stark naked.
  Theater: Public area, public standards of decency apply (barely), see above reason for why you should *never* take off your shoes in a movie theater.
  
• Home Theater: You can enjoy whatever food you care to make for yourself at a reasonable cost.
  Theater: You are forced to purchase the theater's overpriced, low-quality slop.
  
• Home Theater: Private bathroom ('nuff said)
  Theater: Public restroom. (ick)
  
• Home Theater: Price of movie anywhere from $3.00 to FREE (for whole room).
  Theater: Price of movie anywhere from $2.00 (no more dollar shows anymore, apparently :( ) to $9.50, and that's PER PERSON.
  
  

The choice seems clear.

Re:HA!

[yellowbkpk]

Home Theater: You don't have to spend $9.50 on a ticket to watch 20 minutes of TV ads and commercials.

Re:HA!

[ergo98]

Next chapter is usually disabled. I believe it's Shrek 2 that has some monstrous ad for Madagascar on it (among others), and they disable the menu and next chapter buttons (WHICH INFURIATES ME btw. My next DVD player will be purchased based upon it having a back-door around this abusive bullshit, and Hollywood can suck on a choad). To make matters even more fun both of my DVD players (from entirely different manufacturers, and made 6 years apart) crash if I fast forward past the end of that chapter. I'm forced to fast forward, and then hit play right before that craptacular ad ends.

Nothing engenders sympathy for video pirates more than the abusive practices of the large media companies.

No Annoying Kids

[randomErr]

The main reason my wife and I don't go to the movies a lot are the kids, specifically the teens. They come in, talk the whole time, can't turn off their cell phones, and usually leave a big mess behind.

The price is the second reason, but it's mainly people who can't shut up or at least talk at a whisper. At home I can send my kids to bed if they get noisy.

Re:Consumers Prefer Movies at Home...

[packetl0ss]

Why do some people think that one has to eat during a movie? Don't some people eat a regular meal like dinner or something before going to see a movie?

"Consumers"

[albeit unknown]

Why can't we be called "people"?

I for one am tired of the implication that my only purpose in life is to mindlessly devour everything marketed at me, and to take on as much debt as possible in doing so.