Trinoma vs. SM North EDSA

[fighter24]

sm north kasi consumer friendly....kakahilo sa trinoma

[<Eduard>]

may nakakaalam ba sa inyo dito kung saan banda *** AIR ART ASIA sa SM North? nag-try ako ikutin pero di ko nakita eh...

[Pickheart]

may nakakaalam ba sa inyo dito kung saan banda *** AIR ART ASIA sa SM North? nag-try ako ikutin pero di ko nakita eh...

3rd floor malapit sa World Of Fun.

[sakuranai]

been to sm north for more than a hundred times...

im from the north at dun ang sakayan ko going home, lalo na nung college, Im in SM north everyday!

although madalas ako nasa trinoma ngayon, SM North Edsa pa rin ako..

[Pandaemonaeon]

SM
- No non-sense parking and layout
- Cyberzone!
- Bevy of home appliances and furniture stores
- Great kiosk selection
- Cheap/midrange food
- Unique security check that involves patting your butt

Trinoma
- Hot chicks everywhere
- Confusing but strategically-designed parking
- High-end clothing stores
- Expensive restaurants
- Krispy Kreme!
- Quality hair saloons

[<Eduard>]

3rd floor malapit sa World Of Fun.

tnx ah...

[Pickheart]

SM
- No non-sense parking and layout
- Cyberzone!
- Bevy of home appliances and furniture stores
- Great kiosk selection
- Cheap/midrange food
- Unique security check that involves patting your butt

Trinoma
- Hot chicks everywhere
- Confusing but strategically-designed parking
- High-end clothing stores
- Expensive restaurants
- Krispy Kreme!
- Quality hair saloons

Oh yeah! Krispy Kreme!

@Eduard
No prob.

[Vhemvhol]

Trinoma
- Hot chicks everywhere

trinoma wins!!

[RougePercer]

Daming pa cute sa trinoma........

Pero mas prefer ko sa kaonting tao so Sm North na!

If you want expensive resto's, and socializing go to trinoma.

[la_flash]

I don't know but I do find more hot chicks in SM North.

[cybermyx]

shopping and techie matters - SM North EDSA

groceries/food trip, movies and tambay - Trinoma

[jamesbondPH]

To bring viewers back, mall theaters offer La-Z-Boy seats

MALL cinemas are racing to build expensive theaters with stadium-style seating, the arrangement film buffs seem to prefer because they see the screen wherever they’re seated.



The race heated up after a new kid on the block, Ayala’s Trinoma, beat longtime leader SM North Edsa with its seven-screen multiplex and their stadium configuration. It signaled that the auditorium style that Henry Sy used to draw the hordes to his malls may have outlived its usefulness, and Trinoma’s box office receipts show it. During this month’s first weekend alone, for instance, Trinoma’s multiplex contributed P2.37 million to the P36.21 million that the movie Hancock grossed in four days, beating SM North Edsa’s P1.61-million take.

Trinoma’s success surprises even Ayala Cinema’s Rollie Dueñas. “We didn’t expect us to be the theaters of choice among the market in Quezon City, considering there are other theaters nearby” Dueñas says of his multiplex whose tickets are priced P20 higher than SM North’s. “We’re glad we’re doing well-especially with the English-language films.”

A spokesman for Hancock’s distributors says Trinoma’s theaters are drawing the crowds because of the mall’s access to the commuter trains serving the Monumento-Baclaran sector, its taxi bays, and its bus and jeepney stops.

Ric Camaligan, vice president of SM Leisures, acknowledges that Trinoma has overtaken SM City North Edsa in movie ticket sales. “The mall is new and as we know, we like to try what’s new,” he says.

Implicitly, Camaligan acknowledged that the stadium style may have been winning the ticket war when he said the new SM City Marikina would have stadium-style seating. The Sys’ other theaters face fixing up as well.

“We’re retooling some,” Camaligan says. “We’ve converted one of the theaters in The Block [on SM North] into a digital 3D screen, a downsized version of the IMAX at the SM Mall of Asia. We also added digital projection in some of our theaters to accommodate digital films.”

HE Sys’ reconfiguration of their multiplexes represents some sort of admission that they might have failed to read their market or the competition or both. Indeed, the market leader that brought down the cinema palaces on Rizal Avenue and Aurora Boulevard and Cubao in Quezon City—the cinemas that ruled the roost from the 1950s up to the late 1970s—is now following trends instead of starting them.

Sy brought down the movie palaces when he offered theaters at the SM City North Edsa with state-of-the-art sound and wide screens in 1983. Dispensing with the balcony, but retaining the orchestra and loge sections of the old cinema palace, he introduced the auditorium style of seating in the mall’s eight theaters, and then added four more five years later to present the biggest multiplex in the country.

SM North Edsa became the template for other developers wanting to ensure a constant flow of human traffic in their malls, and it just grew and grew. It eventually offered 50,000 seats to become the biggest theater circuit in the country, so that one simultaneous screening means P26 million in gross receipts at P130 per ticket in just one day.

The multiplexes at the SM malls reigned, but the competition eventually wised up. As if on cue, the Power Plant in Rockwell, the Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong, and the Gateway in Quezon City rejected the auditorium style in favor of the stadium in building their cinemas. The Robinsons malls in Manila and Mandaluyong reconfigured their auditoriums into stadiums, and three years ago the Aranetas built a spanking multiplex with 10 screens on top of Gateway Mall—one of those a premium theater exclusive to Globe Platinum members, and with La-Z-Boy seats.

The SM group finally took notice when Trinoma, the new high-end mall just across the street, embraced the stadium design and got the crowds coming. The group had initially ignored the trend, saying its theaters were meant for a market that did not really care about technological advances in movie exhibition like digital surround. Now it’s having second thoughts about it.

Still, while the auditorium style of seating in multiplexes may have been out of fashion, Camaligan of SM Leisures says SM is not about to plunge into a wholesale reconfiguration of its existing cinemas. That will require some serious study, he says, because a new theater with state-of-the-art projection and sound means millions of pesos in investment.

“That’s a lot of money at a time when the movie industry worldwide is going through difficult times,” he says.

AN ARTICLE SHOWS HOW SM NORTH EDSA BEATED BY TRINOMA. SIMULA PA JUNE 2007, SA CINEMA TICKET SALES, TRINOMA RANKS ALWAYS AT NUMBER 1.

[speedomizuno08]

Sa The Dark Knight rin, talo ang SM North. Nasa pang 6 spot siya with P2.16-M while Trinoma, nasa 1st spot with P3-M.

Pero diba ang top grosser naman sa MMFF 2007 still ay ang SM North EDSA?

[Kirbs]

layout of shops...SM North....easy to find and i think i haven't been lost in any of their buildings. In Trinoma, I easily get lost. If you are there going around everyday like the guards and the people who work there, it won;t be a problem....but shoppers don't shop everyday, right? its so much like glorietta that until now i still get confused where to find the shops that are located in the "inner circle"

variety of shop....i go for trinoma...from high-end to tiangges, i think they have it


trinoma

[speedomizuno08]

SM
- No non-sense parking and layout
- Cyberzone!
- Bevy of home appliances and furniture stores
- Great kiosk selection
- Cheap/midrange food
- Unique security check that involves patting your butt

Trinoma
- Hot chicks everywhere
- Confusing but strategically-designed parking
- High-end clothing stores
- Expensive restaurants
- Krispy Kreme!
- Quality hair saloons

Magkakaroon na ata ng Krispy kreme sa SM North. Kasi magbubukas sila ng 4 na shops sa 2009. Siguro kasali na sa SM North. Pumirma na rin ang Store Specialist, INC sa SM North EDSA para sa mga shops sa Annex.

I have pics of SM North Edsa Redevelopment (Simula pa lang), from Skyscraper City.

[jamesbondPH]

[business_guy]

Chossing between the two - i go for trinoma. i like high-end shops, though trinoma doesn't have high-end shops (except rolex and tag heuer), i like malls full of desginer labels....

[beatlebum]

when shopping for clothes, nung me pera pako, trinoma talaga. andun lahat ng brands na gusto ko.

kaso wala nakong pera e. kaya esem na lang ako ngayon. hehe.

advantage ng sm may billing center. at mas mura sa hypermart nila.

pero pagdating sa sine, trinoma. mas maganda ang mga sinehan. ang chaka ng mga bagong sinehan sa sm. sasakit ang leeg mo pag hindi ka balcony.

ayos din ang timezone sa trinoma.

[vin22]

unless gawin ng sm na yung movie tickets nila yung parang sa mga shang,rockwell,ayala cinemas. sa trinoma ako palagi manonood instead of sm north. (movie tickets kasi collect ko)

[speedomizuno08]

ang cheap kasi sa sm north. pero gusto ko ang sinehan sa the block and d cinema.

try the new website of sm cinema

www.smcinema.com