Tuesday 28 October 2008

Advantages of Different Viewing Mediums

DVD Viewing
  • Can watch as often as wanted
  • Can pause whenever wanted
  • Special and bonus features
  • Cheaper in the long run as it's only paid for once for as many viewings wanted and by as many different people as wanted
  • Wide choice of films
  • Can be watched whenever wanted
  • No distractions
  • No age restriction for watching though there is when buying
  • Can turn it off if you don't like it
  • You have the choice of subtitles
  • You can rewind and fast forward
  • No adverts in the middle of the film

Cinema Viewing

  • Big screen
  • Surround sound
  • Cinema food
  • Comfortable seats
  • The atmosphere
  • It's sociable
  • The darkness creates a mood
  • Cupholders!
  • Exclusivity
  • Spacious

Film 4

  • Shows films that you may not usually chose to see
  • Shows films that have never been released in the cinema and are hard to come across on DVD

Internet

  • There's a wide range of films
  • You can watch films that aren't out in cinema yet
  • Theres no age restriciton
  • It's free

There are specific problems to internet viewing such as it's illegal, the quality is generally awful, sometimes it is separated into different parts such as the film being split into ten short videos, the streaming is time consuming, it's not reliable, they don't always work, the screen is often small.

Sky Movies

  • It's free
  • There's a fairly wide range
  • There are different geres for different people
  • No adverts during the film
  • can be paused and rewound (with sky plus and anytime)
  • Can be watched whenever you like (with sky plus and anytime)

1 comment:

mw said...

Well done - this is a detailed record of initial research. mw