The Death of Cinema?

Before I became a parent, I would go to the cinema at least once a week.
These days it is once every three months.
I am aware that this is a natural progression as you enter the dreaded middle age, but you don't quite have the sense of sacrifice my parents generation had.
I am actually pretty happy to spend my evenings at home in front of my 42" plasma and watch movies or boxsets of TV-shows on DVD.
There are definite advantages;
You can stop the film if you miss something, you can lie down on a comfortable couch, wife and cat permitting and there is no chance of a 7 foot guy with a hat sitting in front of you.

The cinemas have ofcourse always provided the "shared experience", and the better picture but the gap is narrowing fast, at least when it comes to the picture quality.
1080p content is now commercially available for the early adapter, and as this is the format most movies are actually post'ed in, the movie will soon look as good in your own home as in the cinema.
Where does that leave the teenager of the future?
Apart from enabling me to watch James Bond doing incredibly cool things with beautiful women
the cinema was perfect for me as a teenager when I wanted to get out of the house without my parents giving me a hard a time about where I was heading.
The shared experience will probably not be enough for tomorrows teenager.
Maybe the cinemas could be converted into cool "living rooms" they rented for a couple of hours to play videogames in or watch movies.
You could order pizza in and make popcorn.
Ofcourse the rooms would have to be monitored to ensure illegal activities did not take place.
This would in turn make all the young people stay away, since they leave their houses to escape the control of the adults in the first place.
Hmmm, another billion dollar business idea down the drain....