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Seems to me, more people are buying smaller and smaller screens to watch movies than there are going to IMAX movies. By about 10 times! Shuh! With iPods, iPhones, and the myriad of personal players, the big screen is going the way of the little screen. Just think, finally Danny DeVito can be seen actual size.

If anything, the opportunity to download movies to small screens is the wave of the future. As people become more and more insular and movie theaters become more colossal, cavernous and titanic, maybe your local cineplex is a sinking ship, taking down IMAX with it.

The crux of the matter isn't the quality of the picture or sound, but "Can I just be left alone and watch my movie?" Most movie theaters are now in the process of switching to digital projection systems and many have already made the change over. James Cameron has become the missionary for all digital film, all the time, preaching that his next movie, "Avatar" will force Hollywood to follow in his wake. But is he swimming against the tide? Is the future for the movie industry "small." After all, you can purchase most just-released DVDs and "burn" them to your personal player cheaper than it costs for two people to spend an evening at the movies. Pop your corn at home and buy a two liter Coke and you now have enough left over to buy a second DVD.

Sure, none of us can make an argument for any quality interpretation of a movie by watching it on a 3-inch diagonal screen, yet years ago, no one would have imagined a world where the TV was replaced by googling and blogging. But people just seem to love their safe, isolated and pixellated world.

Is IMAX the future of the movie industry? Probably not. The future of the movie industry lies in the the hands of the viewer. Those furious, flinching iPhone clutching hands.

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