Face it, it’s a lot more enjoyable to watch movies in the theater than it is to watch them at home. Sure, the movie house might have a little better sound system than what you own at home, but you’re not overly nervous about the sound system. It’s the massive screen that makes cinemas superior for watching movies. Watching King Kong rip apart New York City or the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park tear around in the jungle is a lot more electrifying when they’re fifteen or twenty feet tall; it’s simply not the same when they’re five or six inches tall on your little screen at home. Just like seeing a Jd Webb show at home is not the same as being there in person.

Possibly what you could do with is a truly huge Television. Now, generally I’m not a big fan of television. Actually, I feel most TV shows are awful, mind-numbing affairs, though irregularly a decent show will crop up every now and then. I’m a film fan however; I love the stories, the adventure, the cinematography. I feel like flicks have the time and effort put in them that television shows need, and I believe it shows. However, to really get the full effect of a movie I generally like to view it in letterboxed format, since that’s how it’s shown in the theatres. You might notice that if you find a movie on television they’ll tell you the film was customized for viewing on your television. Filmmakers modify their flicks for TV by hacking off part of the frame to make the shot narrower, which can sometimes have adverse effects on the cinematography. It’s similar to how to get rid of skin tags – it has to be done by someone who knows what they’re doing. Nevertheless, unless you see letterboxed flicks on a big Television or on a widescreen TV, the added black strips on the top and bottom of the screen make the frames considerably smaller, which makes people pretty tiny on a fourteen inch or sixteen inch display.

I never felt I needed a large Television, particularly since I didn’t watch TV very often. I could get by with a little one, even if it meant that the Jurassic Park dinosaurs weren’t quite as vicious as they were in the movie theatre. Plus, I spend most of my time on niche marketing, so not a whole lot is free for TV watching anyway. Then, one Christmas my aunt got my uncle a large entertainment center and had it put in for him, complete with a huge Television and surround sound. He invited a few of us into the den and put in a copy of Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. It was astounding. The D-Day invasion was bigger and more ominous than I remembered, and when the shooting started it sounded like bullets were flying around the living room. He had managed to replicate the movie house experience in his own house, and I was hooked.

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