From wcbstv.com:

Regal cinemas say you can now silence those interruptions with the Regal Guest Response System — a virtual remote control to mute that annoying patron who’s ruining your silver screen sanity.

“I get enraged, and I often want to tell them to shut up,” moviegoer M. David Levin told CBS 2 HD.

Theatre employees at Battery Park Stadium now handle that duty without patrons missing a second of film. A hand-held pager is given to a random member of the Regal Crown Club Loyalty Program who’s attending each movie.

“If any situation does arise they can just press a button which goes directly to the pager which the manager will have and they’ll signal it and they’ll go right into the theater and handle the situation,” theater manager Heather Dematteis said.

“This device can be used for more than just reporting loud patrons,” Dematteis added. “It also can be used to report problems with the picture, sound and even piracy.”

Evidently this is already installed in a few theaters.  Has anyone out there seen or used one?

It seems like a disaster waiting to happen.  What if the unruly person turns into the person holding the button?  Movies could then be interrupted by employees entering the theater every 10 seconds to scold every other person in the theater.  Or perhaps it would start button wars where one person tells on another person for being on the phone, and that person’s friend tells on the original person for coughing too loudly, etc.

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