This is a bit of a shocker that I picked up over on, of all places, a movie news site.  Remember when I talked about how Disney wanted theaters to shorten their release window for Alice in Wonderland, so they could get it on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming faster for us in the home theater [...]

It’s an eternal argument of movie lovers, folks–is the home theater the future of the movies, or is it the theater experience that will rule the day?  Naturally, most of us gear heads who come here believe it’s the home theater that’ll carry the day. But there are plenty of us–me included–who thought that there [...]

Once again we’ve got a studio pleading poverty due to piracy–well, to be fair, they’re also blaming the most miserable economic conditions in eighty years.  But the end result is the same for Sony Pictures, who just showed four hundred and fifty people to the door by telling them they’ll be fired this March. Give [...]

I can’t help but roar with helpless laughter every time the theaters start blaring their successes to anyone who’ll listen, saying that 2009 was their “BEST YEAR EVAR!!!!!11!1″and they beat home video SO hard. See, there’s two basic functions at work here that skew the results wildly in favor of movie tickets, and you can [...]

Well, folks, you know I’ve been of the mind for the last couple years now that the theater as we know it is a  doomed industry. Without serious changes in terms of the value they provide, they will be relegated to the dust heap of history alongside the buggy whip in favor of the steadily [...]