Yes the signs will do no good unless there is someone from management actively going into each and every auditorium to warn and then boot out offenders. There has to be some “teeth” in the policy or people will continue to blab away on their phones or talk loudly during the movie.
Here are other problems that need to be addressed:
High ticket prices
High food prices
Tv commercials on screen
Obnoxious/rude/unruly people ruining the show
Lack of showmanship
The switch from the film experience to the home video experience
Wait till the customers start throwing trash up there on the ‘platform’ blocking the image from the video projector. Or worse, it blocks the lamp cooling fan!
Yes, and what happens when the lamp cooling fan starts getting noisy or screechy during a show? or if someone shines a laser pointer into the video projector’s lens (thus damaging the projector)?
And don’t forget how light-fingered the janitors are. Gee, where did the projector disappear to?
Since the “movies” will already be in a video format, the pirates will have an easy job pirating the latest ‘movie’. Theaters won’t even be needed anymore.
And in this ‘rural’ farming community this theater charges $9.50 admission vs much less at the existing theaters. Ten screens at this theater in addition to five screens at three other existing theaters is too many for that market.
Someone wanted to buy the theater and add screens? So these guys would rather close the place than sell it to someone who would expand it and add more movie screens?
Check out the restored single screen Chehalis Theater in Chehalis, Washington. I helped restore the projection booth there. It is a successful first run single screen theater again after it had been converted into a video rental store.
I thought “digital cinema” was supposed to be the salvation of all theater’s problems? It was supposed to magically bring in thousands of customers. :rolleyes:
I noticed there’s no pictures of the projection booth after the restoration. Are they showing these classics on 35mm film or have they gone the video route?
The bank extensively remodeled this theater. Hidden up behind the suspended ceiling are some artwork from the theater.
Yes the signs will do no good unless there is someone from management actively going into each and every auditorium to warn and then boot out offenders. There has to be some “teeth” in the policy or people will continue to blab away on their phones or talk loudly during the movie.
Here are other problems that need to be addressed:
High ticket prices
High food prices
Tv commercials on screen
Obnoxious/rude/unruly people ruining the show
Lack of showmanship
The switch from the film experience to the home video experience
“Digital” cinema in your home! No more need to go to a theater.
Wait till the customers start throwing trash up there on the ‘platform’ blocking the image from the video projector. Or worse, it blocks the lamp cooling fan!
And wait till the roof leaks into this video projector. Or worse, wait till the projector falls on a customer!
Yes, and what happens when the lamp cooling fan starts getting noisy or screechy during a show? or if someone shines a laser pointer into the video projector’s lens (thus damaging the projector)?
And don’t forget how light-fingered the janitors are. Gee, where did the projector disappear to?
This’ll be a laugh when something goes wrong during a show!
Since the “movies” will already be in a video format, the pirates will have an easy job pirating the latest ‘movie’. Theaters won’t even be needed anymore.
And in this ‘rural’ farming community this theater charges $9.50 admission vs much less at the existing theaters. Ten screens at this theater in addition to five screens at three other existing theaters is too many for that market.
Only a fraction of theaters have gone to video projection.
Who would want their movie experience disrupted by out-of-control teenapers?
Meanwhile the little guy is left out in the cold.
Sorry, western Washington is way overbuilt now. Too many screens.
So they turn the movie-going experience into your living room experience. Might as well just stay home. At least at home you can mute the commercials.
Since they run tv commercials at the theater, then the admission should be free!
Probably using it as an experiment to work the bugs out of the television projectors.
The forums at www.bigscreenbiz.com are where to go for all that information.
Didn’t that same company send out this exact same press release a year ago?
Someone wanted to buy the theater and add screens? So these guys would rather close the place than sell it to someone who would expand it and add more movie screens?
www.bigscreenbiz.com forums would be a good start.
Check out the restored single screen Chehalis Theater in Chehalis, Washington. I helped restore the projection booth there. It is a successful first run single screen theater again after it had been converted into a video rental store.
The oasiscinemas.com is now retired and changed to www.farawayentertainment.com
They just took over the Admiral Twin Theater in west Seattle too.
I thought “digital cinema” was supposed to be the salvation of all theater’s problems? It was supposed to magically bring in thousands of customers. :rolleyes:
I used to service this theater. Roughly 200 to 225 each house.
Uh-oh. They went video projection. :(
Closing because it didn’t ‘upgrade’ to the big screen tv experience?
Closing because of crappy Hollywood movies is more like it.
I noticed there’s no pictures of the projection booth after the restoration. Are they showing these classics on 35mm film or have they gone the video route?