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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/the-24-hour-movie-and-digital-technology.html?_r=1&emc=eta1  I chose this title "out there in the dark, all alone."  This article is about how many people do not go to the movies anymore and instead use technology to see any movie that they want to see.  Back in the early days of movies they got such high attendence because after the movie was out of theaters there was no way to watch it anymore because they did not have videos or anything else back then that a person could watch the movie on after it was out of theaters.  Since they could only watch it in theaters, if it was a good movie then they would go back to the theaters many times before the movie was gone so they could soak in as much of the movie as they could.  Now with ways to rent movies after they are out of theaters or even stream them instantly onto your phone, computer, or gaming device, people do not see it as a necessity anymore to go to the movies.  It is even possible now to watch movies online while they are still out in theaters.  There are many websites out there that film the movie while it is in theaters and allow you to watch the movie in your own home while everybody else has to pay at the movie theater to watch it.  While this is illegal, many people do it anyways because it saves money and it is almost impossible to get caught because nobody ever comes to people's homes and checks up on what they have been looking up on the internet.  These are all reasons why people do not go to the movies anymore.  Another one is that the prices of a movie ticket keep skyrocketing as the years go by.  Now for a regular ticket at a lot of the movies the prices are reaching almost 10 dollars a ticket.  That is outrageous and many people do not want to pay it because not only is that expensive, but it also cost about 4 dollars a gallon to get gas so by the time you add all of that up it cost a lot of money to go to the movies.  That is another reason why many people went back in the old days because movies cost less than a dollar to get in so it was pretty easy for most people to be able to afford to get in.  With movies being watched on these internet sites that are illegal or a lot of the sites that has the movies right after they are realeased, many of them are free.  This is very convenient for people and most people will wait that extra few monthersthat they have to wait in order for the movie to leave the theaters and to be released on dvd and everything else.  Netflix is a very popular way to watch movies now becuase people can sign up for it on their PS3 or XBox and they can pick from thousands of movies and they will instantly play on their device.  This is a great luxury because it is only like 7 dollars a month so many people can easily afford that when they can watch multiple movies or shows a day if they really want to.  With technology becoming better and better it may come to a point where the movie theaters will not need to be used anymore because many people will want to watch movies right away when they first come out and many movie making companies will probably start making it so that new release movies will stream instantly to whatever device that they want to watch it on.