All About Big Screen TVs - Exposed
July 21, 2009
Face it, it’s a lot more cool to watch movies in the movie house than it is to watch them at home. Sure, the theatre might have a little better sound system than what you have at home, but you’re not overly concerned about the audio system. It’s the huge screen that makes movie houses superior for viewing 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.
Possibly what you require is a very big Television. Now, generally I’m not a huge fan of TV. In reality, I believe nearly all TV shows are terrible, mind-numbing affairs, though intermittently a solid program 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 put in them that TV shows lack, and I believe it shows. Still, to truly get the full effect of a motion picture I usually like to watch it in letterboxed format, since that’s how it’s shown in the theatres. You might notice that if you see a motion picture on TV they’ll tell you the movie was modified for watching on your TV. Filmmakers adapt their movies for TV by cutting 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 a person who knows what they’re doing. However, unless you watch letterboxed movies on a big Television or on a widescreen Television, 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 monitor.
I never felt I required a large Television, especially since I didn’t view Television very often. I could get by with a little one, even if it meant that the Jurassic Park dinosaurs weren’t quite as fierce as they were in the cinema. In addition, I spend the majority of my time on niche marketing, so not a whole lot is open for Television viewing anyway. Then, one Christmas my aunt bought my uncle a large entertainment center and had it put in for him, complete with a large 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 remarkable. The D-Day invasion was bigger and more ominous than I recalled, and when the shooting began it sounded like bullets were flying around the living room. He had managed to duplicate the theatre experience in his own house, and I was addicted.
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