Comments on: Brighter hopes for Digital Theaters http://normanhollyn.com/2009/06/22/brighter-hopes-for-digital-theaters/ Thoughts on media, technology, the film business and beyond Thu, 05 May 2011 03:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Jacob Karesh http://normanhollyn.com/2009/06/22/brighter-hopes-for-digital-theaters/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Jacob Karesh Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:50:36 +0000 http://normanhollyn.com/?p=599#comment-572 I can tell you what would get my butt in a theater seat more often and it's really quite simple. Lower the prices. For me, that's the huge thing that keeps me from seeing most everything. When paying Netflix 15 dollars a month lets me see as many as I have time for, some of which I can stream straight to my TV or computer, there are very few movies that I think are worth seeing on the big screen. I see probably less than 5 movies a year in the theaters, but definitely less than 10. The only ones I see are ones that I think will be a large difference between seeing at home and seeing in the theater, or ones that a group of my friends are planning on seeing and I feel like being social. Until it costs less than $12 to see a movie at any decent theater in LA (plus parking, usually) I'm perfectly content to just stay at home and pop in the DVD. You mentioned internet distribution. By that do you mean distributing digital copies of the movie through FTP to the theaters? If so, I definitely have some opinions (which may be entirely unfounded) regarding that. I can tell you what would get my butt in a theater seat more often and it’s really quite simple. Lower the prices. For me, that’s the huge thing that keeps me from seeing most everything. When paying Netflix 15 dollars a month lets me see as many as I have time for, some of which I can stream straight to my TV or computer, there are very few movies that I think are worth seeing on the big screen. I see probably less than 5 movies a year in the theaters, but definitely less than 10. The only ones I see are ones that I think will be a large difference between seeing at home and seeing in the theater, or ones that a group of my friends are planning on seeing and I feel like being social. Until it costs less than $12 to see a movie at any decent theater in LA (plus parking, usually) I’m perfectly content to just stay at home and pop in the DVD.

You mentioned internet distribution. By that do you mean distributing digital copies of the movie through FTP to the theaters? If so, I definitely have some opinions (which may be entirely unfounded) regarding that.

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