Future Of Cinema
As home entertainment becomes increasingly more immersive, with large screen flat panel displays, or even projection systems, the movie-going audience is declining. We routinely make trade-offs such as “Is this a DVD movie, or is it truly worth going to the cinema for?”
In recent memory, films that obviously made the cut were March Of The Penguins, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Water, and Harry Potter. In contrast, Walk The Line, a fine, fine film, was just fine on DVD.
So, what then is the future of cinema at theaters?
IMAX, the extra-immersive experiential theater, is definitely worth going to the movies for. We saw a splendid film set in Egypt, chronicling a white-water rafting trip down the Nile. It looks like some studios, as well as Private Equity fund Elevation Partners, also view IMAX in a similar light.
The next generation of cinema?
I guess people will wear specs which will give a vision of a projection on bigger than IMAX screen with good sound quality and that can be connected to internet or a dvd player. I think I saw such a thing on display by Sony somewhere already. Not the internet enable version though which is an obvious extension of that.
Going to movie hall will be more of a social fun where a lot of guys want to enjoy together.