Re: The future of colorists/color correction

I'm working as a colorist for a post house in Los Angeles, and I'm glad Color can give me the flexibility to take jobs as a freelancer, not only that, I know if I ever get laid off I have a source of income. I still invested a lot of money on my equipment (HD monitor, Kona, control panels, RAID, scopes, etc) but nothing compared to a full post house.
Still, I'd say that the big difference, and I'm talking about professional colorist that can work at home, and post houses, will be the theater screen. Clients just love to sit down and watch their movies on a dark theater with a big screen. They don't care what system you're using, as long as it looks the way they want. Now, I left real time rendering aside, because right now it is a big deal with at-home colorists, but I assume in the near future it will be a normal thing to be able to run real time color grading with audio.