Face it, it’s a lot more cool to watch films in the movie house than it is to watch them at home. Certainly, the movie theatre may have a little bit better sound system than what you own at home, but you’re not excessively worried about the sound system. It’s the oversize screen that makes cinemas superior for viewing films. Watching King Kong rip apart New York City or the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park tear around in the jungle is a lot more exhilarating when they’re fifteen or twenty feet tall; it’s just not the same when they’re five or six inches tall on your small screen at home. Just like seeing a Jd Webb show at home is not the same as being there in person.
Perhaps what you could do with is a really huge TV. Now, generally I’m not a huge fan of television. In reality, I feel nearly all television shows are terrible, mind-numbing affairs, though irregularly a decent show will crop up every now and then. I’m a movie fan however; I love the stories, the adventure, the cinematography. I feel like films have the time and effort put in them that television shows lack, and I feel it shows. Still, to really get the full effect of a motion picture I frequently like to see it in letterboxed format, since that’s how it’s shown in the theatres. You may see that if you watch a motion picture on television they’ll tell you the film was modified for viewing on your television. Filmmakers change their films for television by cutting off part of the frame to make the shot narrower, which can sometimes have detrimental 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. However, unless you see letterboxed films on a big TV or on a widescreen TV, the added black strips on the top and bottom of the screen make the screens considerably smaller, which makes people pretty small on a fourteen inch or sixteen inch display.
I never thought I needed a large TV, particularly since I didn’t view TV very often. I could get by with a small one, even if it meant that the Jurassic Park dinosaurs weren’t quite as fierce as they were in the movie house. In addition, I spend the majority of my time on niche marketing, so not a whole lot is free for TV viewing anyway. Then, one Christmas my aunt got my uncle a large entertainment center and had it installed for him, complete with a large TV and surround sound. He invited a few of us into the den and popped in a copy of Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. It was remarkable. 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 copy the movie house experience in his own house, and I was addicted.

