Is it a good move to refurbish traditional film theaters with digital theaters? Is digital better?

Question

I am giving a persuasive speech for my college class and I need some opinions on the subject.

Answer 1

Supposedly digital is better; but the expense of converting to digital, and the fact that movies in and of themselves aren't as profitable as they used to be is going to put doing so on the back burner of a lot of theaters I would imagine. Problem with movies is that while the technology is improving, content seems to be getting worse. But I gather this is because with cheaper technology you lower the barrier to entry, which means more amateurs and pseudo-professionals enter the market. A better question might involve how high-definition is getting cheaper, and whether or not the stuff that is coming out now is worth the added expense of purchasing high-definition.

Answer 2

That makes very little sense.

"Digital theatre"

It is like you are saying you want to take out the film which is digitally processed and replace it with a disc like that makes for better resolution. It doesn't.

If you want better resolution you would have to build an enormous flat screen television which is cost prohibitive and easily destroyed and a pain to maintain.

So what are you trying to sell here? The movie? The theatre? What?

If it is the movie then why should people pay to see it on an enormous over priced screen when they can see it at home on their own enormous overpriced screen? People do not go to the theatre for the quality of the film but for the fact they can see it in the dark with lots of people around them. Sad but true, the attraction of going to a movie is going to a movie.

Movie theaters uses to be palaces with chandeliers and velvet covered seats, and balconies, and automatic curtains and concessioners that walked up and down the aisle. They were an event, a spectacle all in themelves. They are not like that any more.

Now they are big rooms, with hard seats and big speakers thanks to George Lucas. They are Multiplexs which make their money by selling a variety of films in one place over seeing one film in true comfort. The problem with that is you wind up showing one film on several screens and shortening the attraction of that film so no film stays in the theater for too long, even if it is fantastic. And then the theater prays the next film is nearly as successful.

And once again you want to eat into the theatres profit margin by selling them 30 $250,000 screens.

I can see a $20 ticket price and that means that the DVD costs less than the ticket.

And two final words on the subject : MILK DUDS.