Cinemas and Theaters has Necessity of Using Jammers
Normally, entering a cinema or theater, turning off the phone is the most basic ritual. However, in any case, there are always people who will ignore these rites and rules. Yes, you are always interrupted when you watch movies. Yes, that's why many movie theaters use cell phone jammer.
Try to convince people to abide by the most basic social considerations during a movie. If you’ve patronized a theater recently, you know they tend to be ignored, so other methods have been explored to mandate theater ethics.
For new and popular movies, theatres could have individual auditoriums which block cell phone use, and auditoriums which do not block signals. This would act more like the now fading tradition of Non-smoking areas in restaurants. While cell phone use is still discouraged in the non-blocked auditorium, those who choose to view a movie there will have to deal with the occasional distraction.
Hollywood film blogger Alex Billington is one of many who rejoiced at AMC's rapid backpedalling."Texting in the theatre completely ruins the movie," he says. "This is something we have to fight against on a social and cultural level."
In 2014, an argument between two men over texting in a cinema in Florida ended in a fatal shooting. While that was an extreme case, most people would agree that glowing phone screens and fingers tapping can be infuriating.
Phones aren’t just a nuisance in cinemas. When Benedict Cumberbatch played Hamlet at the Barbican he added a soliloquy at the end, bemoaning the tragedy of phone cameras and urged his fans to put their mobiles down. Some performers have taken the matter of disruptive technology, quite literally, into their own hands.
Have these individuals never engaged so fully with a film, or felt pulled so deeply into a story, that they haven't felt a moment's resentment when something rang or vibrated or lighted up a few seats away, shattering the spell? Does the problem begin with a lack of respect for their seat mates, or a lack of respect for the entertainment medium itself?
The reality, of course, is that all of it matters. At a time when we are forever consumed by our personal technology, the theater can and should be our last public refuge, where we are in thrall to the movies and the movies alone. And if that vision comes from a place of nostalgia or naiveté, then it's a place where there is still room for all of us, sitting proudly and defiantly in the dark.
Personally, I think theaters should be allowed to install the jammers, with clear signs indicating that they are being used. If people don't like that, they are free to spend their money elsewhere. If all theaters end up using the technology, then those people can choose to not go to movies.
At present, France, Japan, China and other countries have made full use of this technology.
Try to convince people to abide by the most basic social considerations during a movie. If you’ve patronized a theater recently, you know they tend to be ignored, so other methods have been explored to mandate theater ethics.
For new and popular movies, theatres could have individual auditoriums which block cell phone use, and auditoriums which do not block signals. This would act more like the now fading tradition of Non-smoking areas in restaurants. While cell phone use is still discouraged in the non-blocked auditorium, those who choose to view a movie there will have to deal with the occasional distraction.
Why use a cell phone jammer?
Hollywood film blogger Alex Billington is one of many who rejoiced at AMC's rapid backpedalling."Texting in the theatre completely ruins the movie," he says. "This is something we have to fight against on a social and cultural level."
In 2014, an argument between two men over texting in a cinema in Florida ended in a fatal shooting. While that was an extreme case, most people would agree that glowing phone screens and fingers tapping can be infuriating.
Phones aren’t just a nuisance in cinemas. When Benedict Cumberbatch played Hamlet at the Barbican he added a soliloquy at the end, bemoaning the tragedy of phone cameras and urged his fans to put their mobiles down. Some performers have taken the matter of disruptive technology, quite literally, into their own hands.
Have these individuals never engaged so fully with a film, or felt pulled so deeply into a story, that they haven't felt a moment's resentment when something rang or vibrated or lighted up a few seats away, shattering the spell? Does the problem begin with a lack of respect for their seat mates, or a lack of respect for the entertainment medium itself?
The reality, of course, is that all of it matters. At a time when we are forever consumed by our personal technology, the theater can and should be our last public refuge, where we are in thrall to the movies and the movies alone. And if that vision comes from a place of nostalgia or naiveté, then it's a place where there is still room for all of us, sitting proudly and defiantly in the dark.
Personally, I think theaters should be allowed to install the jammers, with clear signs indicating that they are being used. If people don't like that, they are free to spend their money elsewhere. If all theaters end up using the technology, then those people can choose to not go to movies.
At present, France, Japan, China and other countries have made full use of this technology.