[lit-ideas] Re: Movies
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:12:23 -0800
> Is that 11.50 in Dollars?!?! I'd never darken a theatre door again....
After spending something like $35 for a movie (two tickets, popcorn, soft
drinks, etc.), I
also quit the movie theaters. It's too expensive.
I had a digital projector (the kind that you use to display PowerPoint slides).
I bought a
DVD player (about $50 these days at any electronics store), a pulldown screen
($120), and
signed up for Netflix.com ($15/month, all the DVDs you can watch).
The screen is about the size of a wall, 7x7 feet (a bit over 2m to you Euros).
The image
quality is very good. Friends come over and it's like the movies. There's
nothing technical
about all of this. Just connect the DVD player to your living room stereo for
sound.
Netflix has some 35,000 movies. It's pretty easy to look up movies by country
or genre. I'm
watching lots of German, Danish, Japanese, and Mexican movies. Tonight: Il
Posto.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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