I mean you kind of break your point with Plex. I have no clue what MultiPlex theaters are, but I do know what jellyfin is. Lots of names have no meaning behind them, even for very popular things.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

At least over here, Cineplexx is a really big movie theatre corporation. That makes it easy to understand what Plex is about.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It's about PMMA sheeting (aka plexiglass), right?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Where is “over here”?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

Austria

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If they had said cineplex would that have been more meaningful?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

Sure but only because I’m old enough to understand that. It still would have zero meaning for anyone under 25-30. Like someone else said, multiplex only makes sense if you’re over 40 (which I’m not). So literally in 10 years you can go through two different naming conventions and have literally the next generation not know what you are talking about

Only choosing meaningful names really doesn’t work anymore. Stuff moves too fast, language moves too fast, and things change constantly.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I have no clue what MultiPlex theaters are

So back in the earlier days of cinema, you'd go to the Cineplex to see a movie. A Cineplex would only have a single screen for viewing movies while the multiplex would have multiple screens for seeing movies on. This started with the first duplex theatre in 1915 and later the first triplex in 1966, shortly followed by theatres with 6+ screens which is around when the term "multiplex" started being used. Basically for anyone born after the 80s (therefore anyone under the age of about 40) the term is largely obsolete since most theatres have at least 4 screens and qualify as multiplexes, plus the industry has seen so much consolidation that smaller independent theatres with 1-2 screens are pretty uncommon now