We make a point of catching only films we couldn’t experience the same way at home, those 3D movies you mentioned and then only as a matinee.
All the rest we can easily wait until Redbox hands them out at $1 a day with their DVD debut.
We canceled the cable subscription because the antenna with digital signals gives us almost 3X the channels we had with analog and it’s even more than what our prior basic cable gave us, and these channels are in HD (cable charges a lot more for HD basic cable packages).
I would love it if everyone would do as we do.
Yes we only go to matinees also (we’ve been to one movie this year, “Up”). For TV, antenna/tuner produces better picture quality. If broadcast TV had the content I wanted that would be the best option. We have cable but only because of sports. If I weren’t a sports fan the cable would go. For the few good TV series DVD is better. After I accumulate enough bonus points on my credit card , I’m going to get a blu-ray player. One local store rents them for the same price as DVD ($1/day). It doesn’t have to be expensive to have movie nights anymore.