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What was the last original movie you saw and how did you watch it? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Poor marketing and limited theater releases is why and studios can blame themselves.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The huge improvements in TV screens have a lot to do with it too, I think.

    When we only had CRT screens at home it was a big jump in quality to go to the theater. But when you have a 4K screen in your living room, there's less reason to go to the theater.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's not just that they were CRTs.

    You can get an excellent picture from the CRT computer monitors of the '90s and '00s, with high resolution (up to 2048×1536—better than 1080p!) and color rendering that's arguably better than modern LCDs.

    CRT TVs had low resolution, and NTSC/PAL has pretty bad color fidelity as well, but one of those high-definition CRTs connected to an RGB component video input (VGA or SCART) carrying high-definition content (DVD or Blu-Ray) is another story entirely.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I was talking about TVs... we are discussing movies after all. Moreover, TVs that the average person has.

    There's a huge jump in quality between the TVs the average person has now compared to 20+ years ago.

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