Cinemas ponder cell phone jammers WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ? New Zealand cinema owners said Friday they may use mobile phone jamming technology to stop mid-movie calls and text messaging in the hopes of preventing disruptions and conflicts between patrons.
The national Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association said it?s studying the legality of using mobile phone jammers in the group?s 200 cinemas around the country.
Mobile phones in cinemas were a ?huge disruption? to moviegoers, said association spokesman Duncan Mackenzie.
?Even texting creates so much light and it?s unfair to expect that people should have to put up with it,? he said.
People talking on their phones in theaters often get extremely upset if asked to turn them off or leave, he said.
Mackenzie said ?cell phone rage? between patrons sometimes turned nasty.
He said he had to defuse one incident when a man threatened to hit two foreign students sitting on opposite sides of the cinema who were texting each other.
If jammers were introduced, people on call for emergencies could leave their mobile phones or pagers at the reception desk, he said.
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