Once upon a time, entertainment meant getting out of the house for an evening at the movies, a trip to the ballpark, or a visit to the concert hall. But eventually entertainment followed us home and settled itself in our living rooms and dens. Community life has never been the same since. And although we may lament the isolation and loss of shared experience that have accompanied this boom in home entertainment, it's hard not to admire the science and technology behind it.
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L. A. Bloomfield (1999) studied this question.