If you're more a watch-films-at-home kind of person then fair enough, but the truth is even the very best home cinema systems cannot live up to the real thing, as I expound on here - and it isn't just for technical reasons. Also, not everyone can afford home cinema systems, nor do they necessarily have rooms with the correct acoustics, or neighbours who would tolerate the required audio levels. However, that is only part of my argument (as you will see from the article).

4K is all very well, but properly projected decent prints of 35mm or 70mm are still considerably higher in resolution. For me, digital has never sat quite right. I feel it is missing something somehow. It's too clean, as though the soul is missing. I feel the same about digital anything, to be honest (music for instance). At my former place of work, the IT department called me "Mr Analogue". Hahahaha!

Yes, I appreciate opportunities to see properly projected 35mm and 70mm are increasingly rare. Still, I'll take them over digital projection any day, especially if the original format is film. Perhaps that is the answer as if something is shot digitally, I see no reason it shouldn't be projected digitally. On the other hand, even my then six-year-old son, who accompanied me to a 35mm reissue of Raiders of the Lost Ark, could tell the difference between that version and a digital version we saw a few months later, at another cinema (this is back in 2011, when there were various anniversary screenings of Raiders). The picture quality is definitely lesser on digital compared to 35mm.

It isn't true that cinemas playing old films aren't going to have good equipment, by the way. The BFI in London is a case in point. On the other hand, one thing I will say in favour of digital is it means classic films have more opportunity to be seen in cinemas, as the costly business of striking new prints is no longer an issue.

For this reason, as my children have grown up, they've been able to have many "firsts" of classic films on the big screen - 4K versions of everything from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apocalypse Now, The Great Escape, and many others (all of them shown in major multiplexes at special screenings). And that's here in rural south-west England! Then again, I know rereleases may be harder to come by in other parts of the world.

For me, cinema will always be best. Seeing the latest Christopher Nolan pic, or something like Dune, at the cinema in IMAX (with the Dolby Atmos system you mention) can't be topped.