The best part: reportedly the employees at the theatre chains hate changing the lenses because of the insanely-strict DRM on Sony’s digital projectors, which “will shut down on you” if a small mistake is made during the reset process. As a result, they don’t bother changing them at all, because for the $9/hr movie theatre employee, screening a poor resolution film is better than no film at all. (And it’s face it, for most movies Hollywood puts out, lower fidelity output may not be such a bad idea.) 

Although there is an inherent risk if this continues, as Boing Boing points out: 

Given that your HD TV set shows it just fine, and your living room doesn’t smell of weaponized butter, aren’t they driving customers to piracy?