However, after 1990, videotapes, cable TV movie channels, rampant piracy, and the government's loosening of restrictions on the number of copies permitted to be made of foreign films and the number of screens theaters could have, all began to have an impact. Cinema was changing.
沒有想到 1990 年之後，錄影帶、有線電視電影頻道、盜版影片泛濫，加上政府放寬了外片拷貝份數和戲院放映廳數的限制，戲院型態也因此起了一連串的變化。