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Re: "Digital projection at the cinema may swing it back the other way again." We do seem to be at odds here.

*** It looks godawful and almost makes me sick, even just to think about it. (Granted I haven't checked it out for a year.) ***

You would be in the minority, based on research i have read. And your last comment says it all, really.

*** Digital sound is no great shakes either; always I look for the Sony SDDS exhibitor, far and away the best of the lot. ***

Your point is? Regardless of the quality of the soundtrack, it's a lot easier to get better sound at home simply because it's a smaller venue with a limited number of people. at the cinema, you can pretty much forget about getting "the sweet spot", if there is in fact one.

my room has been measured to be +/-3dB from just under 40Hz to 20kHz except for a notch at 120Hz - a typical theatre sounds quite boomy to me and of course you can forget about a flat response above 12kHz in a large venue with lots of people.

And if you like SDDS, then you probably haven't heard the audio dropout issues that other people complain about.

*** I attend widely here in Boston and around South Florida and South California and *never* have witnessed optical degradation. ***

I suspect your standards are different from mine. Colour degradation is a known phenomenon, and is measurable even after a few screenings. Also, the colour temperature in a typical cinema is way off - I've done some measurements. I am the sort of person who gets annoyed by false colours - you don't seem to be, so that's fine.

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