5 reasons movies and TV shows are worse on your iPad

One of my all-time favorite rants is David Lynch’s 2008 complaint about people watching movies on smartphones. “Now if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film,” he said in the DVD extras for Inland Empire. He later changed his mind, but a lot of people still sympathize with his original view, including me. Even if you’ve got a iPhone 17 Pro Max, that’s such a small screen that you’re losing out on a lot of immersion, no matter whether you own noise-canceling headphones.