Comments on: Baby Steps http://weblog.bbzzdd.com/2006/01/24/baby-steps/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:32:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Chris http://weblog.bbzzdd.com/2006/01/24/baby-steps/#comment-38 Chris Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:29:58 +0000 http://www.bbzzdd.com/wordpress/?p=28#comment-38 Higher picture quality is a start, but they really need to ramp up the entire experience. It's such a chore to go to the movies these days between buying tickets, standing on line to get in, fighting for a good seat, sitting through commercials and trailers, dealing with annoying people, etc. If I could just buy the DVD on opening day, 9 times out of 10 I would. They need a really compelling reason for me to go to the theatre, and for non “special effects tour de force” flicks all the technology in the world is not going to get me to the theatre if I can get the film through another distribution mechanism. The MPAA knows that, thus the spoon feeding from theater to disc to cable in hopes to snag the minority sales from those who actually buy the DVD of a film they saw in the theatre. Keep re-packing the same product is a ploy straight of out the RIAA handbook, except the MPAA can repackage every six months, instead of every ten years as with recordings. I think the only thing going out to the movies is going to have to keep it alive is the "going out" part. Dinner and a movie just isn't the same if you have to stay home to do it. I don’t think it’s enough to keep it afloat in the long run however. Higher picture quality is a start, but they really need to ramp up the entire experience. It’s such a chore to go to the movies these days between buying tickets, standing on line to get in, fighting for a good seat, sitting through commercials and trailers, dealing with annoying people, etc.

If I could just buy the DVD on opening day, 9 times out of 10 I would. They need a really compelling reason for me to go to the theatre, and for non “special effects tour de force” flicks all the technology in the world is not going to get me to the theatre if I can get the film through another distribution mechanism.

The MPAA knows that, thus the spoon feeding from theater to disc to cable in hopes to snag the minority sales from those who actually buy the DVD of a film they saw in the theatre. Keep re-packing the same product is a ploy straight of out the RIAA handbook, except the MPAA can repackage every six months, instead of every ten years as with recordings.

I think the only thing going out to the movies is going to have to keep it alive is the “going out” part. Dinner and a movie just isn’t the same if you have to stay home to do it. I don’t think it’s enough to keep it afloat in the long run however.

]]> By: Ulf Hednar http://weblog.bbzzdd.com/2006/01/24/baby-steps/#comment-37 Ulf Hednar Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:37:19 +0000 http://www.bbzzdd.com/wordpress/?p=28#comment-37 I couldn't agree more. But until the movie houses and productions companies start hemorrhaging money (much more than now) they will not up the ante for the movie going exprience. And I don't see anything coming in the near future. Even as the production companies are footing the bill for the big switch from film to 4k DLP we, the viewer, won't notice much of a difference while the production companies will save billions of dollars by not having to make film prints and then distribute them worldwide (the largest cost for production companies). Maybe after these shits save 50 or 60 billion dollars they will see fit to release a new DLP system that can really move some pixels. As for now it's just the same 'ol same 'ol. Note: 4k digital, while less res than a perfect 35mm print, should appear as good or a tad better do to the fact that most film prints aren't perfect, especially for us sad sacks on the east coast (excepting a few theaters in NYC) who get second rate prints of first run films from day one. I couldn’t agree more. But until the movie houses and productions companies start hemorrhaging money (much more than now) they will not up the ante for the movie going exprience. And I don’t see anything coming in the near future. Even as the production companies are footing the bill for the big switch from film to 4k DLP we, the viewer, won’t notice much of a difference while the production companies will save billions of dollars by not having to make film prints and then distribute them worldwide (the largest cost for production companies). Maybe after these shits save 50 or 60 billion dollars they will see fit to release a new DLP system that can really move some pixels. As for now it’s just the same ‘ol same ‘ol.

Note: 4k digital, while less res than a perfect 35mm print, should appear as good or a tad better do to the fact that most film prints aren’t perfect, especially for us sad sacks on the east coast (excepting a few theaters in NYC) who get second rate prints of first run films from day one.

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