{"id":88,"date":"2008-06-15T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=88"},"modified":"2008-06-15T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T13:25:00","slug":"accessing-movie-theater-info-on-the-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/accessing-movie-theater-info-on-the-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessing Movie theater info… on the go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I was desperately seeking information on the schedule and availability of tickets for a movie. I thought, checking the schedules on my iPhone would be better than calling the theater number (and then waiting in a long queue for someone to even pick up the phone). After all, iPhone features a full fledged web-browser!<\/p>\n

Searched on Google for the web address of the theaters and as usual, the results page loaded extremely fast, about 0.16 second for the query and about 7-10 secs for the full page to load (incidentally the mobile version of Google home page takes much longer to load).<\/p>\n

Then went on to individual Websites\u2026<\/p>\n

Adlabs<\/span> Cinemas<\/span><\/a> (Rating \u2013 1\/2 star<\/span>): Even the low bandwidth version takes extremely long to load. The drop down selection doesn\u2019t work. Very mobile unfriendly with heavy use of images. The only saving grace, I got the phone numbers of the theater call center!<\/p>\n

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Inox Movies<\/a> (Rating \u2013 1\/2star<\/span>): Again very mobile unfriendly. Heavy use of Flash (with no back up images) which doesn\u2019t load on the phone and also heavy use of images. Adlabs, at least had a phone number on the first page, on this site, you have to guess that \u2018insta tickets\u2019 means\/will have more details of Phone numbers! Anyways, found the movie, selected it and 3 page loads later its a dead end \u2013 application error! Complete waste of time.<\/p>\n

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PVR Cinemas<\/span><\/a> (Rating 0 Star): First load \u2013 Server error! Second load, the initial screen for selecting cities \u2013 What\u2019s with those huge square boxes before the city name? Select city, next page load, server error! I am not going to try anything more on this site.<\/p>\n

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Cinemax<\/a> (Rating 1\/2 Star): The page takes ages to load! Layout is extremely bad. Luckily, I spot the registration link, refrain myself from even searching as I guess that even listing movies will require me to login (which is true!). Saving grace \u2013 phone numbers on top.<\/p>\n

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Fame<\/a> (Rating 1\/2 Star): Graphics heavy. A flash image has the phone numbers, which cannot be seen on the iPhone. Could find the movie timings at the least.<\/p>\n

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Overall, futile 15 mins spent. I had a phone, so probably should have called them and wasted 15 mins instead to get info as per my requirement.<\/p>\n

I am pretty sure its the same on any (smart)phone with any type of browser. Infact, I don\u2019t think they should be rated at all. The fact that I could atleast get the theater phone numbers was the saving grace which I could have got from the Google search results page itself with a proper search query!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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