What did you expect? This isn't the future - this is how it's been for decade(s) and it's just you only notice it when it "goes wrong" (for whatever reason) W

What did you expect? This isn't the future - this is how it's been for decade(s) and it's just you only notice it when it "goes wrong" (for whatever reason) When your cinema ran film, there needed to be somebody who could "deal with film"... I believe there used to be a profession called "A Projectionist" Pretty much from the moment films were digitally distributed, the multiplex became a giant automated jukebox - only staff there are to sell you food and to clean up the mess you left from your food. First time I hit this (easily over a decade ago) was when somebody had left the polarizing filter on the projector lens and we were trying to watch a 2D film. Eventually we got somebody to "take the filter off" and we could actually see the film properly - but then restarting the film descended into a cluster-fuck of trying to convince the DRM system that they weren't trying to show a bootleg showing and how even if they did restart, it was going to through the centrally-planned multiplex schedule into chaos.