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| Topic Started: Jun 17 2005, 02:54 PM (76 Views) | ||
| Sinion Kabe | Jun 17 2005, 02:54 PM Post #1 | |
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Most Americans would now rather watch films at home than at the cinema, a poll has suggested.![]() The new Star Wars movie is the year's biggest hit Seventy three per cent of adults said they preferred watching movies at home on DVD, video or pay-per-view to going to a cinema. The survey of 1,000 adults also found that 47% said films were getting worse. The results come as the US box office experiences its worst slump in 20 years. The number of cinema-goers has dropped for the last two years running. Just 22% of people said they would rather see films at the cinema, in the survey for the Associated Press news agency and AOL News. A quarter of those surveyed said they had not been to a cinema in the past year. On the plus side, a third of people believed movies are getting better. Eighty per cent said they used a DVD player at home. Current Slump Despite high profile releases like Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Hollywood's domestic revenues for 2005 are down 6.4% on the same period in 2004. Ticket sales reached a modern record of 1.63 billion in 2002 but have fallen since, down to 1.51 billion in 2004. At the current rate, admissions for 2005 could total 1.34 billion, the lowest since 1996. Around four billion tickets were sold each year before television eroded Hollywood's dominance. DVD sales and rentals totalled $21.2bn (£11.62bn) in 2004, more than double the domestic revenues at cinemas, according to the Digital Entertainment Group. Movies took $9.4bn (£4.9bn) at the US domestic box office last year, compared to $9.2bn (£4.8bn) in 2003. The rise was attributed to an increase in ticket prices. |
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| Ryan Montross | Jun 17 2005, 04:56 PM Post #2 | |
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I Like To Watch Movies At The Cinema, Instead Of Watching Them On DVD. | |
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| Bran Flakes | Jun 17 2005, 05:09 PM Post #3 | |
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Cinemas make it more fun to watch. | |
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| Oswald | Jun 17 2005, 06:00 PM Post #4 | |
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well i prefer the cinema | |
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| Sinion Kabe | Jun 17 2005, 08:00 PM Post #5 | |
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Personally, I prefer to stay at home. Of course, in a cinema, you have he benefit of a large screen and good surround sound but I'd rather watch a good movie in the comfort of my own home. At home you can do what you want (well....almost). | |
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| Knuckles | Jun 18 2005, 12:33 PM Post #6 | |
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If its a Blockbuster I prefer to got to the cinema. | |
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| Random | Jun 18 2005, 02:17 PM Post #7 | |
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DVD I have 2 young children I never get to go to the Theater ...So its DVD for me. | |
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| INFPGeek | Jun 19 2005, 12:58 AM Post #8 | |
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DVD - from the pure cost of it all.... I have netflix, get 3 dvd's out at a time all month long for only $17US a month... it cost the same price for my wife and I to see SWIII:ROTS during an afternoon screening, if the movie companies and theaters could get together and lower prices, I might see more. | |
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| Abyss of Borg | Jun 19 2005, 03:47 AM Post #9 | |
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DVDs because at the theater there is always some damn kids throwning popcorn at me and people talking. Plus with DVDs I can watch them whenever I fricken feel like I just grab one off my selve and put it in the player. | |
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| Nuke | Jun 21 2005, 04:28 PM Post #10 | |
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sry but you cant beat the cinema | |
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