Face it, it’s a lot more amusing to watch movies in the theater than it is to watch them at home. Of course, the theatre may have a little better sound system than what you possess at home, but you’re not excessively nervous about the sound system. It’s the colossal screen that makes theaters better 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 exciting when they’re fifteen or twenty feet tall; it’s just not the same when they’re five or six inches tall on your little screen at home. Just like seeing a Jd Webb concert at home is not the same as being there in person.

Maybe what you require is a very large TV. Now, by and large I’m not a big fan of TV. Actually, I believe most TV shows are very bad, mind-numbing affairs, though seldom a high-quality 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 movies have the time and effort invested in them that TV shows lack, and I believe it shows. Still, to really get the full effect of a film I typically like to watch it in letterboxed format, since that’s how it’s presented in the theatres. You may see that if you see a film on TV they’ll tell you the movie was customized for watching on your TV. Filmmakers adjust their films for TV by hacking off part of the frame to make the shot narrower, which can sometimes have unfavorable effects on the cinematography. It’s similar to how to get rid of skin tags – it has to be done by a person who knows what they’re doing. However, unless you watch letterboxed movies on a big TV or on a widescreen TV, the added black strips on the top and bottom of the screen make the frames significantly smaller, which makes people pretty tiny on a fourteen inch or sixteen inch screen.

I never thought I needed a huge TV, especially since I didn’t view 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 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 bought my uncle a huge entertainment center and had it put in for him, complete with a huge TV 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 astonishing. 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 theater experience in his own house, and I was hooked.