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chrispenycate · 01-24-2007, 08:18 PM

There are films which are just not made for reduction in format, even to high definition TV, let alone the compression ratios frequently used in squeezing the stuff thhrough the web (it's not just the connections, though that's part of the problem; 300MHz by multiple strains servers and switching networks too, and that's down in the minimum for real picture quality) Others, evidently, the story carries it and absolute sound and image quality are less important.
And there's the social component; going out for the evening is a different experience to watching something on the TV, however good the TV.
Here (in Geneva, I can't talk for the entire country) the problem is the number of films coming out, against the number of good cinemas in which you can watch them. Unless you want to go at five in the evening, a popular film will frequently have no spare seats before it's pulled off for the next one, putting the one you'd missed seeing into a cinema with an inferior sound system, or poor seating (for which the prices are frequently the same)

01-24-2007, 08:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
chrispenycate Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Geneva (Switzerland) Posts: 10	Re: Movie theatres a thing of the past. There are films which are just not made for reduction in format, even to high definition TV, let alone the compression ratios frequently used in squeezing the stuff thhrough the web (it's not just the connections, though that's part of the problem; 300MHz by multiple strains servers and switching networks too, and that's down in the minimum for real picture quality) Others, evidently, the story carries it and absolute sound and image quality are less important. And there's the social component; going out for the evening is a different experience to watching something on the TV, however good the TV. Here (in Geneva, I can't talk for the entire country) the problem is the number of films coming out, against the number of good cinemas in which you can watch them. Unless you want to go at five in the evening, a popular film will frequently have no spare seats before it's pulled off for the next one, putting the one you'd missed seeing into a cinema with an inferior sound system, or poor seating (for which the prices are frequently the same)