The cinema ‘closed loop’ of sound translation has broken as viewing fragmented

Evidence

The concept had its most practical application in the movie industry, described in Section 3.6 as a “closed loop”, within which industry standards attempted to ensure that cinema attendees heard and saw what movie mixers created in their cinema-like dubbing stages. But now, movies are played everywhere: homes, planes, tablets and smartphones, often viewed on tiny displays and heard through headphones. They are compromises forced upon us by circumstances, but a portion of the art does translate in a distorted form; it is still entertainment. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1406