With the advent of Netflix , On Demand, and Amazon Prime , a host of movies and TV shows can now be streamed directly to your 50-inch screen at home. How can a movie theater possibly compete with comfortable seating and a non-existent dress code? This is especially true when you consider that watching a movie at home has other added benefits, including the lack of strangers talking through the movie and kids kicking your chair. While you may still have to deal with chatty family members and wait a month or two before a particular movie is available, viewing at home gives you much more control over your viewing experience, not to mention it also gives you a easy access to your favorite movie. appetizers at much lower prices.
Movie theaters in Detroit
Movie theaters in the Detroit area and beyond have responded to the competition by expanding their concessions to include alcoholic beverages and / or pizza, donut holes, and more. Also, for the most part, they have switched to stadium seats. Other theaters have expanded into entertainment complexes that include IMAX theaters, arcades, restaurants, and even bowling alleys.
D-Box MFX motion seats
In some ways, theaters in the Metro-Detroit area are at the forefront of finding new ways to stand out. Consider, for example, the D-Box MFX Motion Seat, a chair that simulates action on screen through choreographed movement. While Detroit was one of the first areas in the country to employ the technology, D-Box hasn’t grown much beyond a couple of rows in a theater or two inside a multiplex.
Luxury seats
As of this writing, several multiplexes in the Metro-Detroit area – Emagine Canton, Phoenix Theaters State / Wayne – are in the process of renovating their theaters to include luxury seating. Well, sure, several multiplexes in the Metro-Detroit area already offered “luxury seats” in the upper rows of designated theaters. For a few more dollars per ticket, a spectator got a larger, more padded seat with more elbow room and a table for concessions.
Given that many times movies now easily stretch above the two-hour mark, seat comfort is more important than ever, which is perhaps one of the reasons why the practices employed by theaters on the shores finally They are heading towards Detroit. In addition to assigned seating, several theaters in Metro Detroit are redesigning their theaters to accommodate a luxury recliner for each spectator. Unlike the original luxury seating concept, all theater seats get the nickname at no extra charge.
Theatrical design
Emagine Canton has redesigned several of its theaters to accommodate these recliners. The chairs are still arranged on stadium-like tiers, but each tier is much wider and better positioned relative to the one below. In fact, each level has a wide walkway with handrails, which provides much more protection against jostling from other moviegoers when they find their seats or take multiple trips outside of the theater to recharge or rest in the bathroom. The walkways are so wide that they can still be navigated when the chair footrests are fully extended.
Review of the new luxury seats in the canton Emagine
The chairs scream leather recliner and have as much padding as you would expect in a Lazy Boy. The only difference is that you still have to share an armrest with a built-in drink holder. That said, the armrests are much wider and more substantial than their predecessors.
Unfortunately, the backrests and footrests of the vast majority of recliners work together and not independently. This means that by pressing a button on the electronic console located on the inside wall of the right armrest to raise the legs, the head and back will recline. If you are in the front row, the inconvenience of lying on your back to lift your feet may be negligible; but the configuration does not work well in the highest seats. That said, the new seating chart and recliners ensure a much more comfortable position in the middle of a good-sized personal bubble.
The downside of luxury seats
While assigned luxury seating eliminates the need to save seats, keeps newcomers from being so disruptive, and provides a very comfortable movie-going experience – like anything else, it does have some potential drawbacks. Here are a few after trying luxury seats at Emagine Canton:
- The new seating design greatly reduces the number of seats available in a theater. The fact that overall cinema attendance is low may be one reason theater owners are trading quantity for quality, but limited seating can result in a few more ‘tickets sold out’ for a show. popular.
- The control panel on each chair is illuminated for easy access during a movie, but the control panel light can sometimes be a bit distracting in a dark theater.
- The chair makes a spinning noise when you put it down. However, for the most part, the noise is lost to the theater’s sound system.
