I would like to have a feature that makes my experience more theater like. For example:
Pre movie notifications and ads: things like the classic ”no talking” and ”concession stand”, and maybe a selection of classic or spoof ”ads” and movie trivia.
When our user informs MC to go to the next phase, play a ”upcoming movies” blurb, a couple of trailers (either user defined, randomly selected, intelligent selection, etc), ”and now for our feature presentation”. User can speed this along by selecting ”next- now” to immediately go to the next bit, or ”next”, which will go to the next bit after the current trailer finishes
Technology Blurbs, like THX, ”Dolby Surround”, etc
”And now our feature presentation” blurb
Then start the movie.
In addition to 'pause”, the user has an ”intermission” option, with ability to set a countdown timer or manual play start. during intermission, blurbs, fake user defined ads, or more movie trivia about current movie.
possibly assign some background music to each ”phase”
This might be easy leveraging playlists and creating dynamic items for the playlist, one such would be ”random movie trivia”, another ”random unique selection from xxxxxx playlist”.
We watch a fair number of movies at my house and this would be a fun thing.
Thanks!