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As someone who's been working with cinema and video mastering, it sounds like you haven't seen the difference between professional formats like DCP and consumer formats viewed on a proper screen or projector. There's a reason we still have cinemas after all.

Even consumer equipment benefits greatly from visually lossless encoded media.

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No one goes to the theater because the picture is better. It often isn’t.

Projectors aren’t maintained, or set up correctly, and audio balancing is often way off. People go to the movies to see new releases or have dedicated shared experiences

I am absolutely seeing mission impossible in theaters next month because their screens and speakers are better.

> No one goes to the theater because the picture is better. It often isn’t.

> Projectors aren’t maintained, or set up correctly, and audio balancing is often way off.

This depends a lot on the cinema that you go to.

Most people are watching at home, on smaller screens, and simply do not care about pixel perfection in every frame.

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