Great in theory ….but what if they made popcorn and coke $17 ?
Innovation
Submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nobody would buy it for that much, surely!
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What if we covered it in some sort of oil that doubles as a laxative?
Addv4@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nah, nah, nah, you need to start out with $8 unlimited per trip, then over a series of years raise the price to $17 on account of “inflation” and have smaller bucket tier sponsored by ads on the buckets.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 months ago
talking ads
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
And demand you buy another if they catch you sharing
Dragster39@feddit.de 6 months ago
Each or combined? Because the combined prices are already that high and people still buy it.
frostwhitewolf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s pretty much what it costs here now
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wo even comes up with those wacky ideas? I don’t want to see movies with random people taken off the street.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Why ? yoi’d get to chill with them, as in netflix & chill
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hmmm,ok but the lights stay off.
sudo42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The movie industry version of Return To Office.
In order to continue using Netflix, you have to watch 3 movies a week in the theater.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Are those 3 trips included in my subscription?
I’m just kidding, I know they aren’t.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What do you think this is - unshittification?
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If I can rent it out for the night so its just me and my buddies it’d be great! Of course it’ll need a completntary extra tall dude who sits in front of me, a crying baby, an old lady with a nasty caugh, and the dude with an obnonxious laugh who seen the movie 6 times and spoils everything.
Hubi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There are a couple of smaller local theaters where I live that let you rent out one of their cinema halls for the evening and let you and your buddies watch whatever you want. You can also bring consoles to game on. It’s like 60 Euros per hour, definitely affordable for a small group.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
All the theaters in my area do that but it’s probably way more since it’s a Metropolitan area and they can make a ton just airing regular showings. I would love to host something at one for my buds though, like worlds for the game we play.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
That’s…sooooo fuckin cool
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Man, every so often when I’m at work, I’ll still daydream about renting out my local theatre, having them use a black question mark rather than the private rental image on their schedule website with a note that it’s a private rental with public access, then playing the Church of the Subgenius’ recruitment video (link for the interested: m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0x9ymMQUg8). Or, depending on my mood, one of those desert series stoner rock concert videos.
Only thing stopping me is money, and the fact that ARISE is on DVD rather than Blu-ray - I don’t want to do Stang and co dirty like that, it would look like shit.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Don’t forget the vapers.
negativenull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This would be like Amazon opening up a physical book store (which didn’t last long):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_BooksTurtleTourParty@midwest.social 6 months ago
They had one of them in my neighborhood and it only stocked the most popular books (on amazon) which you already get delivered to you in an hour or two. It seemed pretty pointless.
Dragster39@feddit.de 6 months ago
Oh, it would have been great if they made the same thing as real book stores. Different categories and putting thought in their collection including niche topics. I love exploring random books in book stores and libraries
refalo@programming.dev 6 months ago
Let me watch any Netflix in a movie theater whenever I want and now you got something.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
i wonder how much itd cost to own just 1 theater room at my theater
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
You can rent them for events or private parties/showings, you know.
dumbass@leminal.space 6 months ago
One of the cinema companies where I live has started renting out the individual cinema rooms to people, you can bring in you’re console, hook it up to the project9r and play games or watch TV or movies using your own accounts.
ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Cinema projectors are usable for gaming? I’d expect extremely high latency since it doesn’t usually matter
dumbass@leminal.space 6 months ago
Nah they work well, here’s a 17 year old video of people laying Wii in a cinema.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 6 months ago
I don’t think that would be very profitable unless they would force people to go by maybe showing content exclusivly in these stores before releasing them online.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d like to have spaces a bit like karaoke bars, where you can rent a room with some friends and watch TV or play videogames and order food and drinks. And maybe even karaoke. I hate theaters because the general population is insufferable, but watching a movie with friends is still fun.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Many cinemas let you do that, but it’s naturally hella expensive because they are too big. Wonder if it would be profitable enough.
CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ve rented out my local theater for birthdays and stuff several times over COVID. It was really nice
affiliate@lemmy.world 6 months ago
this would be so Disruptive
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If I understand correctly, a major player at Netflix actively doesn’t like theaters and sees them as competition to eliminate.
On a completely separate tangent: You remember those occasional attempts at online virtual hangout zones back in the 2000s? They were implemented in anything from Flash to the Source engine, often resembled a physical shopping mall, “Hang out with your friends, customize your avatar, engage with today’s products and brands!” And a lot of them tried to have virtual movie theaters, because of course people wanted to sit in their computer chair in front of their 15 inch CRT and watch a very low resolution “whatever will fit down a 2002 era DSL connection” stream of Shrek 2 in its entirety. And of course it never really happened that often because no one would license them the rights to any decent movies.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Woah. That gives me an idea.
What if we used the internet to let people watch videos without downloading them anywhere? The video data could just flow from the server to the client, and rendered directly to a screen. I’m still trying to come up with a coherent name for the concept though.
Logical@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe a word which likens it to how water flows in a river? How about rivering?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You might have something there… but I’m not sure. I feel like we’re close, though.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
name idea: buffering hell
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Imagine the really big screen to which my projector points and ask me why I wouldn’t care. If you can invest in a really awesome home theatre system, it’s rare that you wanna go somewhere other than home to see something.
Zink@programming.dev 6 months ago
And it’s hard for a projector to compete with a nice OLED in a dim room.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Netflix actually had that in Sydney, in partnership with a speaker company. It was to push home theater, but you could go watch movies.
I havnt heard of the speaker company since.
TwinTusks@bitforged.space 6 months ago
What is a speaker company?
frostwhitewolf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A company that makes/sells speaker systems
GiovaMC1@lemy.lol 6 months ago
My mind is blown away
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I get that this is tongue-in-cheek call to remember that movie theaters are a thing, but this isn’t outside the realm of possibility.
If we consider that a lot of mainstream “big screen” movies are digitally distributed, the distinction is actually very small. The only real difference is licensing; individual screening vs group screening. And a big company like Netflix probably has a lot of leverage to competitively negotiate this already since they have established relationships with most media companies.
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Not that far off, tbh. Netflix is planning to open multiple brick-and-mortar places in 2025, just not for watching movies or shows (afaik). bloomberg.com/…/netflix-to-open-stores-where-fans…
Alb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They could also make a store where you can loan their movies, then return them after watching and loan others
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 6 months ago
they should also borrow video games so you can try it out, and if you like it, you can go buy a copy from the video game store.