Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on March 21, 2005 at 17:38:28

In Reply to: immersion in a movie- does this happen with DVD? posted by tunenut on March 21, 2005 at 17:25:14:

their systems...it ain't the same. When characters are sixty feet high and the sound system is "larger than life" as well, it creates a magical spell that you can't get in a house's room. And there's also the crowd which seems, almost paradoxically, to help you "disengage."
Not least, consider the potential disturbances in the average home.
Just the fact of being in an unfamiliar place is also important to dissolving in the moment.