NASA employs about 17,000 people and supports the employment of tens of thousands more through contracts and grants made in every state of the union. 3-DTVs are more expensive than regular high definition televisions, and the active shutter glasses can cost more than $100 a pair. The current standard in flat-screen TVs is called active shutter 3-D. This technology uses battery-powered glasses to “shutter” an image in one eye and then the other. Passive 3-D (the technology used in movie theaters) uses two image projectors and non-powered glasses with polarized lenses to block out a different range of light in each eye. With HDTVs, watching a movie at home can look every bit as good as a theatrical showing — and home HD projectors go that extra step by replicating the theatrical experience of watching a projected image on a silver screen. It was a revolutionary step over the old VCR, and businesses like Netflix, Hulu and other streaming video services sprang from a new mindset of watching what we want when we want. Note that the rankings are based on the Nielsen SVOD Content Ratings service, which measures just four services: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney Plus.

Without high-speed Internet, we’d have no media streamers or sites like Hulu. We’d have no Internet-enabled TVs with “channels” of Web content. Just as big, flat screen TVs have grown more affordable over the years, surround sound has become a more accessible home theater option. Human societies depend on natural resources for their survival and development, but the excessive exploitation of these resources can have detrimental effects on ecosystems. In other words, NASA will have the resources to help private companies start to develop their own space stations. While TiVo charges a monthly fee for its services, many cable companies are eager to have that money for themselves — that’s why they’ll offer you a DVR cable box of their own. As Netflix continues to offer subscribers more content for their entertainment dollar, movie theaters ask for more money to see a single movie. And here’s the great thing about HDTV technology: As movie theaters charge more money for tickets every single year, TVs get cheaper.

Netflix and the other home-theater innovations we’ve discussed in this article demonstrate the best conveniences of all the modern technologies making theaters obsolete. Netflix is the culmination of all those advancements brought about by broadband Internet access. Netflix Streaming’s popularity grew so quickly that in 2010 it accounted for 20 percent of all downstream Internet traffic in the U.S. Alas, the group fell on its own sword – Facebook deleted the event, and as of Feb. 8, the critics’ score was holding steady at 99 percent. Once those screens become affordable — assuming 3-D proves to be more than a short-term fad — the home 3-D experience will definitely have movie theaters beat. Out of all the amazing technology making movie theaters obsolete, one aspect above all drives today’s content consumption: availability. Those are just a pair of the 10 TV technologies making movie theaters obsolete. Don’t discount the picture quality of old film just because HD movies are a new phenomenon. But where VHS and DVD barely matched the visual quality of a film projector, Blu-ray is an altogether different beast.

Just as VHS defined an era of home video and DVD brought movies into the digital age, Blu-ray has become the standard for HD content. When the company launched as a by-mail DVD rental service, it quickly rose to dominance over traditional competitors like Blockbuster. Amazon Video on Demand and Apple TV are two popular choices that offer rental content streamed over a broadband Internet connection. And we definitely wouldn’t have video on demand platforms from companies like Apple and Amazon, who have huge online content offerings but don’t control the hard lines into our homes like Comcast or AT&T. And according to NASA, at the time of Endeavour’s final landing, the shuttle craft will have travelled more than 100 million miles during 25 flights and spent more than 294 days in space. After all, our calendar cycles every 365 days (barring leap years), and while some might party like there’s no tomorrow every New Year’s Eve, tomorrow always comes. That can be a drawback, too — projectors need dark rooms just like movie theaters, limiting their accessibility compared to LCD and plasma screens. These days, a cube filled to the brim with packing peanuts is old-school — and not in a good way, like picnics and postcards.