25 mins, 2001        [password required] For the best part of the last century people have been going to see films in cinemas. But in the last twenty or so years there's been a major change in the cinema business. Now, across the country multiplexes, huge cinemas with large numbers of screens, monopolise the film industry. Many smaller independent cinemas have vanished. And the cinemas are getting bigger all the time. Multiplexes are now giving way to megaplexes and even gigaplexes, bigger buildings, more screens. Cinemas like these make relatively little of their money from selling tickets to their films. Their real profits come from selling popcorn, soft-drinks and advertising. And there is more change on the way. Digital technology promises to revolutionise the cinema business, cutting the costs of distributing films and enabling cinemas to show a greater variety of programmes than ever, from pop concerts and football to even sermons. What will these changes mean to the cinema-going public? Does it matter if independent smaller cinemas showing films for "minority" tastes cease to exist? What will the cinema experience be like in twenty years time?

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