Film & Cinematography News South Africa

Will DVDs be the death of cinema?

With the pace of technology constantly bringing with it new options, the old phenomenon of going to the movies is being replaced by the ‘let the movies come to us' revolution, writes Roman Cylkowski. Intuitively it would appear that the local cinema industry seems to be losing the war to the emerging ‘let's catch a flick at home' market.

Visit any cinema complex on almost any evening of the week, and you'll see great movies playing to mostly empty seats. DVD stores (they still call them video stores), have no doubt seen good growth, as consumers opt to stay at home and experience a quality movie evening on their own ‘Home theatre system', at a fraction of the cost of going out.

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