New Indiana Jones Film Plagued by Bouts of Silence

Filmgoers in the U.S. are complaining that sound drops out completely at several points during the new Indiana Jones film, 'Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.' Many conspiracy-prone attendees suspect that the sound issues are an attempt to track pirated copies of films. One filmgoer claims that the Regal Cinema at Hacienda Crossing in
Insiders say that the likelihood of it being an anti-piracy measure is slim. Most studios use sophisticated watermarks to track copies of films so they can identify which theaters films were pirated from. Projectionists theorize that the silence might be due to compatibility issues between film reels and the readers used in some theaters.
The exact cause is still not known, but one thing is for sure -- moviegoers are not very happy about paying $10.50 for a film where the sound inexplicably drops out for several seconds at a time. [Source: Boing Boing and the Telegraph]





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Subscribe to commentsdwr50May 30th 2008 4:15PM
People that pay $10.50 to see a movie have more money than common sense.