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It's a matter of perception. Sitting closer to a smaller 4k screen will give you a better experience than the big badly dimmed screen at the movies. A good pair
by Raphmedia 11y ago
It's a matter of perception. Sitting closer to a smaller 4k screen will give you a better experience than the big badly dimmed screen at the movies. A good pair of quality headphones ($300+) will also sound better than the often too loud sound system in the cinema. I can also set my own EQ and add sound compression to movies where the music, dialogs and special effect are badly balanced.
As for the snacks, they charge double or triple the price of everywhere else on the planet.
The only reason I go to a theater is out of nostalgia. For a while, I thought that 3d would give me a reason to go the the cinema, but I've yet to experience 3d in a satisfying way.
- aidenn0 11y agoSpeakers are much more expensive, but much better than headphones for locating sound.
- chipotle_coyote 11y agoI'll have to echo aidenn0 here with respect to the sound. I have pretty good headphones (Beyerdynamic T90s) and love them, but when it comes to a movie experience I want a good five-channel speaker setup with proper level calibration and an amplifier that has a home theater EQ profile built in. To me, that's more important than the screen -- I only have a 42" 720p TV, but I'd rather watch movies on it than on 55" 1080p screens with more anemic sound systems. (Granted, my TV is a Pioneer plasma model, so for a 720p screen it's really good.) I still like going to theaters occasionally, though. For all of the flaws -- including the snack prices, definitely -- sitting closer to a 60" screen at home is not going to truly replicate the effect of sitting twenty feet away from a 720" one.
- praneshp 11y agoYou probably don't care (neither do I), but the reason the snack prices are so high is because the theater makes almost no money from the movie, in the first few weeks. My beef is with the quality of the snacks, not the prices themselves.
- schwap 11y agoI am an avid headphone user, but even the highest quality drivers are simply too small to replicate the whole-body bass thump of a good speaker system.