Oh noes teh sky is falling!

[eiknarf]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

As discussed in another thread, broadband homes have dropped from 70% to 67% in just 3 years. Meanwhile, those homes have mobile only subscriptions and mobile contract only has risen to 13% I believe.

This backs up EVERYTHING I have been saying for the last few years.

Small screens winning out, the death of movies on the big screen and even the smartwatch theory I have. After all, 50 inch screen to 5 inch screen? These guys don't care.

Well that's why theater chains are doing all they can to "reinvent" the theater experience and trying new things to get butts into seats:
First it was STADIUM SEATING... then it was 3D... then it was RESERVE SEATING... then it was ORDER REAL FOOD FROM YOUR SEA... then it was XPLUS where every seat it twice as wide, leather, and reclines with updated audio... and now it's MX4D where there is smells in conjunction with what's on screen, the seats vibrate, there's actual rain, and other senses are stimulated.

They're trying to make the theater experience different from the home experience so it's worth leaving your house to see a movie.

[Steedeel]

What we have here is a witch hunt. I happen to believe this will happen. A lot of evidence is there suggesting it is happening. Those figures are facts. 3% more people might not sound that much in a huge country like U.S.A but add it all up over the coming decades and you see some very worrying numbers.

some of you guys think (already tiresome) gifs are hilarious and no doubt you will get a lot of thank you clicks for your effort. Maybe that's why you do it? It's tiresome and incredibly predictable. You may think (probably do) the same of me but this is happening guys. Wake up and stop contributing to it.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

Well that's why theater chains are doing all they can to "reinvent" the theater experience and trying new things to get butts into seats:
First it was STADIUM SEATING... then it was 3D... then it was RESERVE SEATING... then it was ORDER REAL FOOD FROM YOUR SEA... then it was XPLUS where every seat it twice as wide, leather, and reclines with updated audio... and now it's MX4D where there is smells in conjunction with what's on screen, the seats vibrate, there's actual rain, and other senses are stimulated.

They're trying to make the theater experience different from the home experience so it's worth leaving your house to see a movie.

By big screen, I mean the home.

[dadaluholla]

Who is the witch in this scenario

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by dadaluholla

Who is the witch in this scenario

Me!

[tenia]

Didn’t people said 60 years ago already that TV would be the end of theatres ?
I know at least that in some countries, including France, movie theatres have been selling record-level numbers of tickets for the past 5-6 years...

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by tenia

Didn’t people said 60 years ago already that TV would be the end of theatres ?
I know at least that in some countries, including France, movie theatres have been selling record-level numbers of tickets for the past 5-6 years...

Yes but people didn't have 24 hour access to mobile screens.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by tenia

Didn’t people said 60 years ago already that TV would be the end of theatres ?

Decades ago, some people predicted that vitamin supplement pills would replace food. Why bother cooking and eating a meal if you could simply take a pill instead to get the same nutrients?

As it turns out, those people were wrong.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Decades ago, some people predicted that vitamin supplement pills would replace food. Why bother cooking and eating a meal if you could simply take a pill instead to get the same nutrients?

As it turns out, those people were wrong.

not a fair comparison. There wasn't evidence if changing behaviour.

[eiknarf]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Decades ago, some people predicted that vitamin supplement pills would replace food. Why bother cooking and eating a meal if you could simply take a pill instead to get the same nutrients?

As it turns out, those people were wrong.

Originally Posted by Steedeel

not a fair comparison. There wasn't evidence if changing behaviour.

Speaking then of technology; In 1956, two of the founding members of AI research claimed that by 1980 machines would be able to do anything a human could do. Haahaaaaaaaa, fools!!!
Here we are, sixty years later, and although we’ve done some awesome things with computers, the human mind is still proving to be way more difficult to imitate even on the most basic levels of interpreting sensory information.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

Speaking then of technology; In 1956, two of the founding members of AI research claimed that by 1980 machines would be able to do anything a human could do. Haahaaaaaaaa, fools!!!
Here we are, sixty years later, and although we’ve done some awesome things with computers, the human mind is still proving to be way more difficult to imitate even on the most basic levels of interpreting sensory information.

Again, irrelevant. A 3% drop in 3 years is a significant statistic. In a couple of decades, broadband wouldn't exist at all at that rate IMO.

[master gandhi]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Again, irrelevant. A 3% drop in 3 years is a significant statistic. In a couple of decades, broadband wouldn't exist at all at that rate IMO.

That's a rate of 1% per year. That means in a couple decades, it could conceivably have dropped by 20%.

[cakefactory]

I think just the fact this topic is on this board is making it pointless, as it's the absolute most biased respondent category possible. Try starting the topic on any board not aimed at older physical media obsessives, and the poll would be probably 80% going "people still buy DVDs??" (yes, not blu-rays, a lot of people forgot there is even a thing called blu-rays) and the other 20% a mix of "yeah, it's screwed" and "i still buy them so it's great."

[tenia]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

I think just the fact this topic is on this board is making it pointless, as it's the absolute most biased respondent category possible. Try starting the topic on any board not aimed at older physical media obsessives, and the poll would be probably 80% going "people still buy DVDs??" (yes, not blu-rays, a lot of people forgot there is even a thing called blu-rays) and the other 20% a mix of "yeah, it's screwed" and "i still buy them so it's great."

Yup.

See above how figures actually show young people are still normally represented in the US/Canada moviegoers demographic.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Decades ago, some people predicted that vitamin supplement pills would replace food. Why bother cooking and eating a meal if you could simply take a pill instead to get the same nutrients?

As it turns out, those people were wrong.

Exactly. According to Sony, the VCR was going to destroy Hollywood. Thankfully the courts saw it differently and Sony lost. Did the VCR kill movies?

[Infernal King]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

What we have here is a witch hunt. I happen to believe this will happen. A lot of evidence is there suggesting it is happening. Those figures are facts. 3% more people might not sound that much in a huge country like U.S.A but add it all up over the coming decades and you see some very worrying numbers.

some of you guys think (already tiresome) gifs are hilarious and no doubt you will get a lot of thank you clicks for your effort. Maybe that's why you do it? It's tiresome and incredibly predictable. You may think (probably do) the same of me but this is happening guys. Wake up and stop contributing to it.

I dunno, I think your posts in this thread are obnoxiously self-absorbed to the point of deserving to be mocked.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Infernal King

I dunno, I think your posts in this thread are obnoxiously self-absorbed to the point of deserving to be mocked.

Many were mocked for believing the world was not flat, no?

[tenia]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Did the VCR kill movies?

So much that Sony later heavily pushed the most sucessful home video physical support ever.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by master gandhi

That's a rate of 1% per year. That means in a couple decades, it could conceivably have dropped by 20%.

That's not taking into account accelerated rates, money problems (only getting worse with recession etc..) and 5g in a few years.

[LeeFanatic007]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Exactly. According to Sony, the VCR was going to destroy Hollywood. Thankfully the courts saw it differently and Sony lost. Did the VCR kill movies?

No, I think Video Killed the Radio Star