Ya. I actually don't get why people are trying to prove their home setups can match the theater.
Even in a better (not best) case scenario, where a home setup includes, say, a $3-4k home projector, a 10-12ft wide screen & a fully-light controlled room and a 7.1 surround setup, perfectly calibrated by professional installers - you're not going to
equal the theatrical experience in a well-maintained screening room of notable size.
but:
Like I said upthread, for a lot of people, you don't have to
1 to 1 replicate that experience. You just have to get
close enough that it becomes worth it to trade spending money on those tickets/concessions and spending time with other people (insert Sartre quote here) for spending money on putting a smaller version of that theater in your living space.
And that's using an idealized potential exhibition experience as a measuring stick. For a
lot of people, that's not a thing they're getting frequently. They're getting 25ft wide projection via half-powered bulbs sitting like 30-40ft back and dealing with shitheads livetweeting the screening.
That closes that "close enough" gap a little. At that point, it's on the viewer to decide where "close enough" actually resides, should they have the time and the money and the space to indulge their movie fandom.
And even in those instances, those fans are probably still going to be more than willing to shell out whatever it costs to go see something in IMAX when the right movie comes along.
