Posted by Stan Brown on 10/24/05 14:20

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 05:29:07 GMT from Manco <manco_dollars@net.com>:
> Jordan wrote:
> > I sat down this week-end and watched Batman Begins and was struck,
> > immediately, at how much clearer it looks on DVD at home than it did
> > in the theater. I don't have a AAA home theater set-up, but I have a
> > nice 51" rear projection 16:9 set and Dolby Digital/DTS 6.1 surround.
> >
> > I remember thinking when I saw it in the theater that it was a little
> > blurry, a little grainy, kind of hard to follow the action. I said to
> > myself back then "I wonder what it's going to look like on DVD?"
> >
> > Turns out it kicks ass on DVD. Has anyone else had this experence? I
> > first noticed it back when the Brendan Frasier version of the Mummy
> > came out. I used to blame it on the projectionist (or lack of a
> > trained one), but now I'm not so sure.
> >
> > - Jordan
>
> and this why multiplexes are dying and DVD sales/rentals are BOOMING. People
> do care about quality.

Exactly. I went to the local theatre (Fall Creek Cinema, Ithaca) to
see /The Aristocrats/. I was not pleased to be in the screening room
where the screen is too high up, the seats are too close to it, and
half of them are broken, but I decided to put up with it.

What I could not put up with was distorted sound, on a dialog-driven
movie to boot. I complained to the projectionist, but he shrugged his
shoulders and said they knew about it but couldn't fix it. I demanded
my money back; in three or four months I'll see the show in comfort
for half the price.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
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