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In response to "Factoring in home viewing (tv, computer, video, etc.), I'd be a little surprised if overall movie viewing/spending has gone down all that much." by Don Homer

spending on it is clearly not unimportant, but it def. has declined...

Posted by x (aka dmuck) Jan 28 '10, 07:21

in the 40's with the US population in the 130-140 million range, there were over 90 million movie tickets sold every single week in this country. after having been chipped away at with television, videogames and the internet there is no way that movies still maintain that sort of hold on spending even with all the extra ways of consuming films now available.

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in the 1940s, movies, radio, and newspapers were the only real way to get news ... and movie news was by far the most vivid of those. Correct? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 07:49 1
- maybe, but it was in no way the driving reason for people buying tickets - x Jan 28, 07:55

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