Sounds like you haven't listened to a decent home theatre. I'll address your points individually.
1. Your perception of screen size is due to size and where you sit. In a HT if your screen is 110 inches it looks huge from say 8-10ft away.
2. Interruption are more controllable in your own HT. No talking or cell phones going off if you don't want.
3. Big Sound? I've never heard a normal Theatre do down to 20hz but I've heard plenty of HT with HSU and SVS subs easily going down to 20hz at refrence level. The most jaw dropping HT I've seen was a system with Revel speakers. Blew away any Theatre I've heard.
4. Meh...I'm there for the movies.
5. Forget the popcorn. At home you can eat or drink anything YOU want.
6. Depends on how sloppy you are.
7. You can do the same with a HT. I don't sit around gabbing to strangers about a movie.
8. In a Theatre you never have a spot guaranteed in the "sweet spot" You do in YOUR HT.
9. www.apple.com/trailers thank you.
10. Neither is really relevant here. HT owners are looking for high quality media playback. This is a bit of filler.
11. Immersion is a factor of many things. Audio visuals how good the story is. I've been immersed into a movie on a 27" TV. That's good filmmaking.
I love watching movies but if you and Hollywood think that a movie theater is the best way to watch a movie you're just fooling yourself and haven't heard even a good sub $10k HT which blows most Theaters away in sound and with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray coming the quality at home is coming.
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Sounds like you haven't listened to a decent home theatre. I'll address your points individually.
1. Your perception of screen size is due to size and where you sit. In a HT if your screen is 110 inches it looks huge from say 8-10ft away.
2. Interruption are more controllable in your own HT. No talking or cell phones going off if you don't want.
3. Big Sound? I've never heard a normal Theatre do down to 20hz but I've heard plenty of HT with HSU and SVS subs easily going down to 20hz at refrence level. The most jaw dropping HT I've seen was a system with Revel speakers. Blew away any Theatre I've heard.
4. Meh...I'm there for the movies.
5. Forget the popcorn. At home you can eat or drink anything YOU want.
6. Depends on how sloppy you are.
7. You can do the same with a HT. I don't sit around gabbing to strangers about a movie.
8. In a Theatre you never have a spot guaranteed in the "sweet spot" You do in YOUR HT.
9. www.apple.com/trailers thank you.
10. Neither is really relevant here. HT owners are looking for high quality media playback. This is a bit of filler.
11. Immersion is a factor of many things. Audio visuals how good the story is. I've been immersed into a movie on a 27" TV. That's good filmmaking.
I love watching movies but if you and Hollywood think that a movie theater is the best way to watch a movie you're just fooling yourself and haven't heard even a good sub $10k HT which blows most Theaters away in sound and with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray coming the quality at home is coming.