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[andrewducker]

After someone being quoted saying "It doesn't matter how good the technology is, nothing's quite as immersive as a good book."
[Poll #1054920]

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[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Watching a film in a mostly empty cinema on your own, or watching something on TV alone in the dark is very different to a packed Friday night cinema filled with chatting neds and your mates telling rude jokes over the popcorn.

[andrewducker]

And reading a book tucked up in bed while a gale blows outside is different from reading it on a bus while small children chew on your leg.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

Computer games and books I -tend- to find more immersive because I am usually playing/reading alone. Of course, some computer games are more immersive than others.

The cinema, regrettably, usually has other people in it... and I don't watch much TV these days. I guess it could be immersive, but it's usually just a bit shit.

Radio I don't listen to really any more, but is good for people who haven't been too conditioned by this modern age to need images. There could be gender issues there too. I don't find comics particularly immersive in the main, but most of them are either badly written or badly drawn. The -good- ones are easily as immersive as good books.