The Kyle File

Who would go to a crowded room and pay to listen to a CD one time? You can’t pause the CD if you have to go to the bathroom or get a snack, and you can’t put your favorite song on repeat if you want. You just go in there and pay $5 to listen, and when it’s over, it’s over, and you go home disappointed because you wasted $5 on something you could have heard at home, and chances are you also wasted money on snacks and drinks that you could have bought elsewhere for a quarter of what you paid for them.

Here’s the really crazy part: many people do this all the time, but instead of going to a crowded room and paying money to listen to a CD only once, they go to a crowded room and pay to watch a DVD only once. They can’t pause the DVD if they have to go to the bathroom or get a snack, and they spend way more than they need to for the snacks and drinks they get while they’re there. Worse still is the fact that the average movie ticket itself costs about a third of the price they could pay to buy the DVD, take it home, watch it as many times as they want and have full control over when it’s played, paused, or stopped. And then there’s the problem of having to buy a single ticket for each person who wants to watch the movie. By the time it’s all over, they have probably spent more than twice the cost of the DVD.

So no, I don’t go to a movie theater, and probably never will, not because I’m blind, after all, I do watch TV and DVD’s, but because the point of wasting my money on something so ridiculous escapes me. And before anyone mentions the fact that movies are released into the theater before you can buy the DVD, I would point out that TV should be used for that purpose, just as radio is used to let people hear songs before a CD drops. In addition, I would also say just go ahead and release the stuff already. If a movie is complete enough to watch in a theater, most likely the DVD is completed, and if songs from a CD are being played on the radio, most likely, the CD is completed. Stop sitting on stuff for 3 to 6 months wondering if people will pay to see or hear it. Just release it already and see what happens. Hype is greatly overrated, and I personally don’t fall for it.