[MatrixDweller]

I love my home theater but the amount of money it cost me to build and buy components it would actually be cheaper to go to the movies once or twice a week. My gear would have cost about $7000 and finishing my basement especially as a theater room would have added a few grand to its construction. Figure $9000 / $11 = roughly 820 movie tickets. That's a movie a week for 15 1/2 years. In the meantime I would have further invested another $2-$4K on new gear in that time span.

So for me it's not about the price of movie ticket or concession stands, it's impressing the heck out my friends and having lots of toys to play with.