^this, and I get the seniors price now. All I do is wear my dad's old fedora hat, his old glasses, limp a little, and use a cane. Cashiers never questioned me once.nope, I go see movies at the first showing when the theatre is empty...
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^this, and I get the seniors price now. All I do is wear my dad's old fedora hat, his old glasses, limp a little, and use a cane. Cashiers never questioned me once.nope, I go see movies at the first showing when the theatre is empty...
You're going to the wrong theaters. The ones I goto have recliners and 3-4' between rows and there's absolutely no way you can get the same experience with a 75 or 80" screen..or even a 100" screen. I've watched movies on all of the above.
That said, I don't consider being able to pause a movie an advantage. I go to movies for an experience and interrupting it to have dinner, get a glass of wine or go to the bathroom (multiple times if you're watching with a half dozen people) is precisely why I'd rather go to a theater....that and most of the time the sound and video are better (but that depends on your theater)
How so. It isn't aimed at college students or 20 somethings with roomates to stream solo on their laptop. However lets say you are married with the national average of a wee bit over 2 kids.. we'll round down to two.
Disney squeezes out something the kids want to see. It's going to cost, with no concessions, 1 adult and 2 kids minimum. I take them right after lunch on a Saturday to the nearest run of the mill theater. That's $26.49 minimum. 2 adults and 2 kids? $36.54. At matinée prices. Do it after dinner, and it is $38.54. One large popcorn and a large drink for the kids to split, and you are over $50.
Lets say mom and dad want to go out. $22.10 for tickets. $40 for a babysitter for the evening minimum. $63 bucks and we have to deal with teenagers and work around a sitters schedule or pay WAY more. If you want to avoid the teenagers, you cna go to the one place in the area that serves booze and is 18+. You are talking over $70 total then.
This isn't 1% shit, these are a demographic who go to a LOT less movies than they used to and might go to more if they were made accessible in a different manner. The price isn't that far off what it costs to go now and in some cases is cheaper. The real PITA is the $150 set top box. Because that means the price to beat is more like $60 if you amortize it over say two years.
I don't know why theaters chains wouldn't buy in if given a cut, I'm pretty sure the split in people who think it is viable vs. not in this thread falls down the divide of "I go out with my friends and it costs me $12" vs. "fuck it's a PITA to get a babysitter and/or I really hate the general public"
That's nice, but it's not a 75' screen. I'd use that for Blu Rays, but I'm still going to a theater.
Because that's what I can have at home. Good beer, good food, good friends that aren't talking or using cell phones, good seating, good audio, video. Just a nice experience.
Babysitting, parking, and overpriced concessions...I don't really understand this price point.
A movie costs what, at most 15$, or min maybe like 3-4$ special matinee price.
50$ is way overboard. What exact costs are they defraying? It should be cheaper for them because no theater, no cleaning, no employees, no projector.
For only internet bandwidth it's multiples of profit of what they normally rake in.
I bet they would have clauses where it can't be a performance, only a private viewing. Thus inviting all your friends over to watch something would be technically against the rules.
You apparently have better friends than most people do....
Babysitter for 3 hours = $50+
Pizza for babysitter son for dinner = $15
most people I know would gladly pay $50 to watch new movies at home
Damn, you pay well. Need a new babysitter? 3 hours is usually $25-30 for when my kids were younger and needed a sitter.
Wow. Now instead of complaining about the price of a movie, I'm talking about the price of a babysitter. Old people... Always bitching about high prices and back in my day it was only $x.
Do you ever go to the movie theater? Why? You're just sitting far away from the screen.
It makes a big difference to me. At least for the home theater. I can watch TV fine with a 27" monitor. It works great. For a good movie experience, the home theater with big screen and nice audio setup makes a huge difference.
Different folks, different strokes.
Babysitters? Didn't they used to call those "grandparents"?
Audio is not a fair comparison, you can hear the difference. But sitting 5feet from an 50" creen vs sitting 10feet from a 100" screen seems kind of the same to me. And the picture quality will always be worse with a projected screen.
And no I don't ever go the movie theater. It doesn't move me. If anything it takes away from the experience if I have to look over other people's shoulders and heads to watch a movie. The only time I enjoyed movie theaters, is when I was still in school and was able to go on weekday mornings with my girlfriend and virtually the whole theater was empty most of the time, maybe 10 people in a 150 seat theater. But I no longer have that privilige.
Audio is not a fair comparison, you can hear the difference. But sitting 5feet from an 50" creen vs sitting 10feet from a 100" screen seems kind of the same to me. And the picture quality will always be worse with a projected screen.
And no I don't ever go the movie theater. It doesn't move me. If anything it takes away from the experience if I have to look over other people's shoulders and heads to watch a movie. The only time I enjoyed movie theaters, is when I was still in school and was able to go on weekday mornings with my girlfriend and virtually the whole theater was empty most of the time, maybe 10 people in a 150 seat theater. But I no longer have that privilige.
It depends where you live and what theaters you go to. Where I go, you essentially sit in a lazy boy and you can reserve your seat before you get there.Well, I don't like theaters, some of the reasons being: fight for seats and scheduling, other people (well, strangers, not friends) and the small gap between seats (you may argue there are better theaters, but not in my 2nd-largest-in-the-country town).
Now, I don't know about 50$, but for 25$ I wouldn't even blink. And it's still about 4 times more expensive than the theater tickets.
PS: my theater movie list is Alien 4, MI-2, Avatar (3D experiment), Avengers 2, SW7. For the latter I had to go alone. And I'm still angry on some of my friends because they did not "invite" me to Deadpool.
How's the anti piracy work? If you can see and hear it, you can record it.
Oh that security device to help you view these movies is also a camera that that will count the number of people in the room and charge you $50 for each person. At least that's how I expect it might work lol
It's a really interesting idea. I can't stay awake through a one hour TV show, but I'm sure some people would go for it. After suffering through record profits year after year Hollywood has to do something.
No, you actually can't. It is completely possible to have a camera phone, etc. or other recording device recognize a digital watermark like Cinavia or similar (which is already encoded into the audio track on many BluRay's).
In other words it's possible to put a digital watermark, either in video or audio, that a camera can detect and refuse to record the material.
I would put money that they plan to do something similar to this for first run movies shown at home.
Damn, you pay well. Need a new babysitter? 3 hours is usually $25-30 for when my kids were younger and needed a sitter.
Wow. Now instead of complaining about the price of a movie, I'm talking about the price of a babysitter. Old people... Always bitching about high prices and back in my day it was only $x.
What about tape cameras and audio recorders?
Damn. How far do you sit from the 110"? I have a 106" and am looking to upgrade to a 125" (and Dolby Atmos). I sit 14' from the screen. I have people come over to watch the big blockbusters when they are released. Nice screen, decent audio, great LFE, beer, snacks, popcorn. It's fun. I could easily spread out the cost of a $50 movie. I couldn't with my family...
I don't understand this infatuation with screen size. I have an 51" TV 3 feet from me, yet 99% of the time I watch movies on my 26" monitor.
I mean why is a 100" projected screen better? You're just going to sit further away from it.
Just go on Sunday at Noon. It's cheap and everyone else is in Church or eating lunch. Most of the time when i go, the theater isn't very full. My main goal is to avoid being too close to people in their 70's. Too much talking during the movie.I would consider paying for the incalculable benefits of watching new releases at home rather than in a theatre full of bovine halfwits if there were more movies that were actually worth seeing in the first place. Marvel superhero movies need not apply.
Except the fact that DRM doesn't work. It never did. Just look at the utter faceplant MS's wmv DRM has had. Even the few companies that used id dumped it long ago, because it caused more problems than it solved. Anything that limits the customer or makes the customer uncomfortable is junk. Also there is the fair use policy.An old tape camera or audio recorder could definitely record something off a screen -- unless they have another camera or other detection device WATCHING for a camera being used.
Of course, you may get a crappy old VHS copy of it, copy it onto a computer, post it online, but you will have recorded and posted that digital watermark which will still be detectable, and I can almost guarantee it will have a unique serial # or other id # per box.
In other words, if you do manage to record it and post it, they will know it was your viewing that was record and posted -- in which case you will be getting a very nice letter from the MPAA's legal department, followed by a bill for every copy of what you posted that was downloaded.