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Just how well do DVD's compare to the whole cinema experience?
The main advantages of the cinema and that you get to see the film earlier, on a big huge screen, with stunning sound.
Home TV's are getting better and better, and the advances in home sound technology have been amazing. DVD's apparently come ever so close to re-creating the whole cinema experience.
You only have to wait a few months before you can rent the newest movies (or buy them on import, and see them before they even hit our screens), and you'll save some money too, considering you'll be hard pushed to go to the cinema for less that £3.50 during the day, and £5.00 evenings.
Plus when you've finished watching your DVD you can switch it off, and go to bed. When I leave the cinema, I have to drive for around half an hour!
Personally I don't have a DVD player, but have been entering lenty of competitions in the hope of winning one! Those of you that do have one, do you find yourselves going to the cinema less?
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The main advantages of the cinema and that you get to see the film earlier, on a big huge screen, with stunning sound.
Home TV's are getting better and better, and the advances in home sound technology have been amazing. DVD's apparently come ever so close to re-creating the whole cinema experience.
You only have to wait a few months before you can rent the newest movies (or buy them on import, and see them before they even hit our screens), and you'll save some money too, considering you'll be hard pushed to go to the cinema for less that £3.50 during the day, and £5.00 evenings.
Plus when you've finished watching your DVD you can switch it off, and go to bed. When I leave the cinema, I have to drive for around half an hour!
Personally I don't have a DVD player, but have been entering lenty of competitions in the hope of winning one! Those of you that do have one, do you find yourselves going to the cinema less?
MD PQMS8/00
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St.Austell the largest Town in Cornwall,0ver 22,000 residents, no carnival,very few annual events, sounds that are often heard echoing around st.austell bay, well lets not just talk about it, lets do something about it. In January 2009 i am planing on getting together a few friends and people who have been there and start planning a annual local event. Of course the final plan will depend on the direction of the formed committee but your input and views are also needed to direct the committee in the direction of what the majority of the public wants.
In truth, I find myself going MORE to the cinema, I never really used to go that often in all honesty. However, since I've gotten into the DVD revolution, I've been finding myself hooking up with a few friends and taking a trip down to the flicks more often.
As much as I enjoy watching the latest releases through my Home-Cinema set-up, it still can't beat the local cinema. I mean, where would be without the sticky floor, uncomfortable seats, obnoxious teens and astronomical prices of a local cinema? ;)
-- Steve --
As much as I enjoy watching the latest releases through my Home-Cinema set-up, it still can't beat the local cinema. I mean, where would be without the sticky floor, uncomfortable seats, obnoxious teens and astronomical prices of a local cinema? ;)
-- Steve --
The Cinema is a group experience, whether you want it to be or not, where as a home cinema set up means you can choose to invite anyone you want and not have that bloke in front of you with the top hat on (don't you just hate 1940's cinemagoers?!)
Cinema has a certain atmosphere, mind you, that it's difficult, if not impossible, to re-create. The usher taking your ticket as if you were some kind of unclean tramp, the thrill of waiting half an hour until the dodgy local adverts start ('come to crazy ernie's for a better car deal' and such) then the curtain shutting for what seems like eternity, until the main feature starts, which is co-incidentally about the same time as the bloke in the front row starts having a hacking cough attack which lasts intermittently throughout the whole film. Then there are the ice-creams which are subject to a special 'cinema tax' that makes them about three times the price of anywhere outside.
Boy am I glad I have a DVD player!
Cinema has a certain atmosphere, mind you, that it's difficult, if not impossible, to re-create. The usher taking your ticket as if you were some kind of unclean tramp, the thrill of waiting half an hour until the dodgy local adverts start ('come to crazy ernie's for a better car deal' and such) then the curtain shutting for what seems like eternity, until the main feature starts, which is co-incidentally about the same time as the bloke in the front row starts having a hacking cough attack which lasts intermittently throughout the whole film. Then there are the ice-creams which are subject to a special 'cinema tax' that makes them about three times the price of anywhere outside.
Boy am I glad I have a DVD player!
Just how well do DVD's compare to the whole cinema experience?
The main advantages of the cinema and that you get to see the film earlier, on a big huge screen, with stunning sound.
Home TV's are getting better and better, and the advances in home sound technology have been amazing. DVD's apparently come ever so close to re-creating the whole cinema experience.
You only have to wait a few months before you can rent the newest movies (or buy them on import, and see them before they even hit our screens), and you'll save some money too, considering you'll be hard pushed to go to the cinema for less that £3.50 during the day, and £5.00 evenings.
Plus when you've finished watching your DVD you can switch it off, and go to bed. When I leave the cinema, I have to drive for around half an hour!
Personally I don't have a DVD player, but have been entering lenty of competitions in the hope of winning one! Those of you that do have one, do you find yourselves going to the cinema less?
MD PQMS8/00
The main advantages of the cinema and that you get to see the film earlier, on a big huge screen, with stunning sound.
Home TV's are getting better and better, and the advances in home sound technology have been amazing. DVD's apparently come ever so close to re-creating the whole cinema experience.
You only have to wait a few months before you can rent the newest movies (or buy them on import, and see them before they even hit our screens), and you'll save some money too, considering you'll be hard pushed to go to the cinema for less that £3.50 during the day, and £5.00 evenings.
Plus when you've finished watching your DVD you can switch it off, and go to bed. When I leave the cinema, I have to drive for around half an hour!
Personally I don't have a DVD player, but have been entering lenty of competitions in the hope of winning one! Those of you that do have one, do you find yourselves going to the cinema less?
MD PQMS8/00