Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail
www.theverge.com
“Due to nation-wide technical difficulties with Sony, we aren’t able to play any titles today.”

From the article:

When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.

  • Auzy@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Screw the movie theatres anyway… Here in Australia, there are two big ones (Hoyts and Village), and both screw patrons by doing things like charging patrons extra money for booking online.

    In fact, they ruined every joke in the simpsons movie for me (except one) by allowing ads to use clips from the movie. By 45mins of ads, every joke was ruined.

    I really wish the big theatres here would f off, and get replaced entirely by small ones. I don’t pay for 40mins of sh***y coca cola ads.

    I no longer go at all. It’s not a good experience, and its not even a good place to take a date

    • Zeroxxx@lemmy.idEnglish
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      10 months ago

      In my place they name it convenience fee.

      For pete’s sake movie goers book online and help your fuxxing operations ourselves, you should be paying us or giving us discount not charging extra.

      • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I’m afraid it’s spreading too. My partners pharmacy now charges a $1.50 “technology fee” if you refill online.

        • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I could maybe get the fee if it was a small place just passing on the presumed credit card charge that goes with ordering online IF they provided a discount for paying cash. A lot of small shops around here do that because the extra 3% or so paid to a bank makes it that much harder to keep prices anywhere near the Walmarts and such.

            • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              10 months ago

              I wouldn’t be against that if it were the case, but ordering by phone they didn’t charge the fee for using a card. It was only the next month when doing by computer. It was a small local chain, but a website user fee to refill is next level BS. Still our only choice when insurance discount cover medication and you have to pay someone to mix it in house to afford it.

              • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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                10 months ago

                I’m saying they are probably being charged some portion of website sales specifically by the vendor of the web service provider. Which realistically makes sense, because regular online retail already almost always takes a percentage and there are significantly stronger regulatory requirements around anything medical.

                • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                  10 months ago

                  Yeah I doubt it’s much of that considering their crappy home brewed website without any type of real portal system. you literally have to email them a picture of your old bottle to get a refill. It’s almost a WordPress website. Almost. I disagree that it makes sense. That’s called overhead and should be figured into their operating costs. Otherwise I would expect customers that come in physically to do business to be charged a brick and mortar fee since I don’t utilize that “feature”. If it were my pharmacy I’d fire them like they deserve, but it’s my partner’s choice.