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No doubt. We can count on somewhere between 500 and 2,000 visiting fans for an average conference home game. We used to get a lot more from the Big 12 visitors. There is good with that. It was a kick in the ass. You can't depend on your opponent to sell out your stadium. But there's no doubt that Folsom would get an attendance boost if, for example, K State and Oklahoma were added to the Pac-12 and we had one of them on our home slate every year.
I think it has a lot more to do with 4D television, the cost of going to live events in general, the hassle of leaving home and the amount of competition there is these days for our entertainment dollars.
Screw the video boards, that’s like planes getting TVs put in head rests. All they have to do it ramp up WiFi and have a stream of the highlights so people can check if they want to between plays and schools don’t have to spend outrageous amounts of money on new video boards.I think it has a lot more to do with 4D television, the cost of going to live events in general, the hassle of leaving home and the amount of competition there is these days for our entertainment dollars.
Stadiums need to sell beer, ramp up the tailgating, have a killer sound system and video boards, offer great food, etc., etc. It's the modern day equivalent of back in old times when the Catholics put on a show for the pagans with stained glass and loud organ music.
They matter. WiFi matters too. You're like I am and need to step outside yourself on this stuff, because we'd be there if it was BYOB with a junior high style PA system and the scoreboard showed nothing except the time, timeouts left and the score. They've got to be exceptionally bad at putting on a college football game to fail at attracting many of us on AB into the stadium.
Haha I was honestly trying to think about the next step with all this crap. Younger generations just want everything on their phone, I noticed how much easier it was when I first took jet blue a couple years after taking the new Dreamliner that had all the new fancy TVs and stuff on it. Instead of investing money in huge screens the ad could keep those small and boost the WiFi so anyone could watch highlights from their phone. Then in the premium seating areas you could provide hookups to phones and iPads where people could plug them in, they could charge and play whatever highlights they wanted to watch, even if it was another gAme. Obviously this doesn’t get rid of scoreboards and TVs around the concourses, it’s just limits the need for them.
I saw The Last Jedi in an AMC Dolby Cinema. Top notch Dolby Vision HDR projection and Dolby Atmos sound with very nice powered recliners and reserved seating. There are four in the Denver area. Only one screen at each location is a Dolby Cinema and you pay a premium that is well worth it.
Folsom used to have a full track around the football field. The field was actually lowered to be where it is today. So there's a lot of scope to raise it back.
You must have really ****ty theaters near you. That wasn’t my experience. At all.
Surely you jest. Have you actually been to a Dolby Cinema? Everything from the most delicate whisper to the most thunderous explosion is rendered with stunning realism and accuracy. Dolby Atmos is object oriented rather than channel based and it adds an array of ceiling speakers that allows audio engineers to place sounds anywhere in 3D space. Dialogue intelligibility is perfect. There is no rattling of ceiling tiles or anything else. The visual and audio presentation is as fine as it gets in a large venue with digital projection. Only true 70 mm IMAX beats it visually.
