Will movie streaming mean the end for the cinema?

We have a chain of theaters here in California that has been building enormous multi-screen movie palaces for the last 10 years or so. They're huge, like 20 or 25 screens, stadium seating, digital projection, THX sound that blows you away. They must have spent hundreds of millions on these places, then they sold out and went out of business.

Cinemas have been in trouble since television came out! They struck back with wide-screen formats, magnetic sound, etc. and the technology has grown rapidly for the last few years. I think bringing back 3-D was a mistake and apparently it was economically a bad decision. Prices certainly have gone up, and talkers annoy me too. Meanwhile at home I have streaming, Blu-Ray, and a 60" HD screen, so cinemas will have to go some to beat that.

But the cinema experience still can't really be beat. A film like Les Miserables or The Avengers last year just can't be seen in all its beautiful technical detail on a home screen. We don't go nearly as often as we used to though.

We are sort of in the same situation as u are. My gf loves to go to the cinema, and I don't care for it all that much...mainly for the same reasons your friend cites...it's costly, noisy, inconvenient (no pausing for bathroom, etc.) and food at a cinema is nothing less than robbery.

The cinemas won't go away I don't think though. They will come up with new gimmicks, promotions and other ways of luring people. And some films are so much better on a huge screen which will continue to attract people.

When true 3D projection is perfected, that might be a factor that renews mass interest in the cinema. They have already demonstrated small coloured holograms in 3D (no glasses needed). How long before it becomes something larger and commercial?

Yup, especially with all the P2P program's where people go to cinema's, hide their cameras, and then record the movie.

My friend went to see "Madoka Magica Part 1" in the cinema (which is a PG movie) and yet he told me that there was tons of toddlers/little kids in the theatre. A couple minutes into the film there's some big explosion or gunshot (he forgot) and he heard tons of toddlers crying and freaking out. He regretted going and wants to see the movie either online or on DVD.

It's official...theatres now stink!

I think both sides of this argument are completely valid, but I tend to agree with you on this. I LOVE going to the movies. There is nothing better. And yes, there are occasionally chatterboxes, but I think it's euphoric being in a comedy and the whole theater roars with laughter, or in a horror flick where everyone simultaneously jumps out of their seats. It's just not the same to me, watching something at home. I always tell people, when watching classic films at home like Alien, Star Wars, Singin' In the Rain, etc., "I wish I could have seen this in theaters". I don't think we couldn't have theaters, because that experience is something that can't be beat. Think about a classic date. dinner and a movie. I can't imagine not being able to do that. To go OUT and experience a film with a whole crowd of people.

I hope we're both right, I LOVE going to the movies and never want that to end.

Does the sound artwork for the different purposes? Like in case you may play an MP3 from the problematical force are you able to take heed to it? If no longer that's possibly your sound card. in case you may hear the music, i wager your sound card and the DVD force are the two incompatible or purely no longer analyzing one yet another wisely. attempt beginning up the config on the two one in all them and tweak around in there.

Possibly, but do remember that there are alotttt of people who absolutely adore the cinema, though it's impossible to know, I wouldn't doubt it

Well, films still make hundreds of millions every day, which is way higher than they made before the internet. Soooooooooo, no.

I really hope not. I love going to the theater.