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It really seems like many folks here are seeing some films for the first time on DVD. That's fine with me but I can't really take the opinions of the films as seriously when the viewer didn't make it to the cinema.I don't care how much money was put into a home theater rig, it just doesn't match the presentation of a high quality movie theater presentation.
It's really too bad that HT exists in the first place. People are satisfied to stay home and "wait for the DVD". These viewers are missing a big part of the movie experience and shutting down good theaters at the same time.
For me, HT is a great thing, but even the finest HT set-ups(such as the Meridian $100K job) are no match for even an average movie theater.
Hey here's an idea, why not actually go to a movie and forget about your systems for awhile.
Have fun,
Tranny
Are you saying that you can't form an opinion about a movie and review it unless you see it in a theater?
I try to see around fifty films per year in movie theaters. Some of these are a great experience, because of the sheer size and beauty of projected film and the shared large audience experience. Also, it may not be audiophile sound, but the perceived size of the audio experience in auditoriums is difficult to match in home systems. OTOH, I have fought my way through out-of-focus projection, dead tweeters or side channels, dead center channels, low light projection level, wrong aspect ratios, wrong framing (mikes showing above the actors), etc., and I seem to be the first or only one to jump up and complain to management (the 17 year-old kid) about the problem.Home theaters can achieve audio which clearly surpasses the theater experience in detail and clarity, image specificity, low distortion, and wide bandwidth (below 30 Hz) reproduction. They lose out on the visual video vs. film presentation, but sometimes the film works better on the small screen (e.g., "Blair Witch Project").
I suppose your argument for theater viewing is analogous to "listen to live music vs. audiophile home systems". But there is no absolute reference for the movie experience, and frankly, there are very few live (unamplified) music experiences (been to the opera lately?). So do not judge those who prefer to "cocoon" too harshly.
If there were any good movies out in the theater, then I would go, but there isn't any that's worth the $8 or $16 (for two people) I would be paying.
nt
I watch a lot of movies and the past couple of years there have only been a handful that I think were good. I'm just going by on my past experiences. So now I just rent and if the movie blows I can just turn it off and I lose $3. If a movie is great then it doesn't matter if your watching it on a 20" screen or a movie screen.
If a movie has to rely on it being shown on the big screen to be good, then there's something definately wrong with it.
I wanted audiophile sound out of the film. It wasn't until later that I discovered what was lacking in 2-channel, 3-channel & 5.1 channel was the best of each. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford a tube powered DAC for the 5.1 channels. So, I bought the best DAC I could which was an OU-oooo-CH such as it is!!!
... I still own a LD player. I still don't care for DVD video. It exhibits too many digital flaws to suit me. I was hoping the CAL CL-25 with the multi-parallelled processors would cure that but it looks as if the unit never came back on line.& I hate theatre sound. It's really poor. Unbalanced, unequalized, dynamicly over-expanded beyond natural. No depth, no detail, no imaging, no soundsatging. Plus, the more expensive the theatre the worse the sound. Unfortunately, only the bad places get the good movies. Since, there are so few, I have to go to those cinemas in order to see them in all their original glory. We can't mimic film detail yet. Although, some HDTVs with internal line & column doublers are only 1 or 2 quatum levels down.
hi Mart,
been hearing good things about the new progressive scan players
(my next door neighbor just got one ). Anyway, have a look see,
i liked the one i saw.
Did the theater, ( back when we were kids and Fred and barney lived next door ) you grew up in have the big old AL Voice of the Theater
speakers?
I hear progressive scan had notorious reliablity problems almost as bad as Sony Wegas.que: big old AL Voice of the Theater speakers?
The one we had exhibited a banded FR from the speakers, but Proctor's Theatre was an acosuticly superior place. [BTW, that's the theatre Mariah Carey used for her Thanksgiving Special]
hi,
i suspect such problems are temporary; once reliability is not an issue.... For me, it is yet another box, that i gotta get, someday, somehow.
a gadget-aholic.stand back!!!
he may buy toys for his toys next.
Theater's are a pain in the but in my opinion. People talking, coughing, smelling, getting up in front of you. If it came down to it if I couldn't have my HT well I wouldn't go to the movies, period! Thank god for the pause button too, a good glass of wine is a must too during a good movie.Chow
hi,
is Tranny guilty of the "T" word? Could those barbed comments have a point? Do we accept the rebuke hook, line, and sinker? We wait with 'baited' breath.
Could very well be :)MiKe
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