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Sometimes I watch movies on my laptop which has a 1080ps screen. It's a nice enough screen but probably not as suited to watching movies as a decent TV or even a desktop monitor. I also go to a few different cinemas and have seen lots of different movies. Without doing too much research into the specifics I assume they're mostly showing 2k digital projections nowadays. I've yet to see a film at the cinema which looks as sharp and detailed as the image on my laptop. Even a 720p video on my laptop seems sharper than what I get at the cinema. This isn't just one local cinema with a bad screen, it's several screens across several cinemas. What's happneing? Is it that the larger cinema screen _seems_ less detailed because it's so large I can see the lack of fine detail? Is it the projector blurring the image because of optical impoerfections or tiny vobrations?