This issue explores how lasers will trigger the next great revolution in motion pictures. More and more, people are watching movies on their laptops, tablets, and smartphones. In wealthy countries, middle-class homes are now typically outfitted with huge flat-panel TVs and powerful surround-sound audio systems. The upshot is that for many people, a trip to a movie theater is becoming a rare event, if not an increasingly distant memory. Learn how laser-based projection technology will make cinema screens bigger and brighter.