Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> When you think about it for more than six consecutive seconds, the 
> purpose of watching a movie is total immersion. Even today, with the 
> rise of "home cinema systems" and so forth, people will still willingly 
> pay really quite large sums of money to go and watch movies in an 
> /actual/ cinema. Because no matter how big your plasma TV at home is, it 
> just doesn't compare to a cinema screen that's bigger than your entire 
> house. Plus, your neighbours wouldn't let you turn the sound up to the 
> point where the building physically shakes. But cinemas can do that.

There's more multimedia out there than just Lord of the Rings movies.
Things like TV series, documentaries, comedy routines and so on do not
require a movie theater sized screen. They can very well be enjoyed from
a 4-inch screen while sitting on a train.

> Now, imagine watching a movie on a screen that's so tiny that you have 
> to hold it a few inches in front of your face to even be able to /see/ 
> it.

And again with the exaggerations. Just stop it, please.

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