"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Sunday, December 18, 2005

The pending end of Movie Theaters ?

Home Entertainment finally goes mainstream, theaters for "dates?"

Is Mark Cuban Missing the Big Picture? - New York Times

"In the long historical view, the movie theater was a makeshift response to immature technology not quite ready for the home, the first-choice place to enjoy entertainment. Now, however, advances in digital technology offer in the comfort of one's own family room a visual and aural experience that approaches that of the theater. The transition to digital in the home, unlike that in commercial theaters, will result in a huge difference: the incumbent technology isn't very-high-resolution film but low-resolution analog television."

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