Sony to stop paying theaters for 3-D glasses

And so the fad of 3D begins to fade.

poor poor sony owners, they need to renew yearly their porsches and mercedes and whatever other super-duper cars are in fashion, and since luxury car prices are higher, we must help them pay. man, will we ever get a break from such greed...

soldave I hope so. 3d should go away and never come back. its the most horrible crap ever shoved down our throats.

I never really got 3D. Saw "Avatar" in 3D - about 3/4 of the way through, the glasses started to annoy. I'll just see the normal flat-screen version and I'm good.

3D is being heavily promoted because it is currently their only way to combat digital pirating.

Good night 3D - I hope you never come back

When are they going to come out with 4-D?

Glasses should be reused in US, most countries do that and the advertisers pay for them. And yeah, 3D is great with Bad movies.

Glasses should be reused in US, most countries do that and the advertisers pay for them.

Last 3D movie I saw (it was so memorable that I've forgotten the name) the theatre had recycle boxes outside of each door where you could drop off your used glasses. If we could get some sort of guarantee that all the movie houses would stick with one particular type of 3D technology, I'd keep a pair to re-use, but the way things are now there's no guarantee of that.

The theaters I have gone to made us buy the glasses. I have had to buy them twice because the second movie I went to was spur of the moment and there was no 2D option. I am not really a fan of the 3D movies and find myself getting a headache after about an hour. I hope that there will be more 2D options in the future for people who like the simplicity or simply don't want to buy the silly glasses.

I will never go to see 3D if the movie theater is using the cheap polarized 3D glasses again. I only know of one theater and only one screen in my area out of 4 multi-movie complexes (some 45+ screens between them) that have electronic timed shutter 3D glasses using XPAND technology. Although the difference is big I would still not want one in the house or for movies over 3 hours long (ouch)

http://109cinemas.net/3d.html http://www.xpand.me/

I'd buy a pair if they were cheap enough... although I don't go to a lot of movies these days (and not all 3-D).

3-D could have been great. But they rushed it like total fools. You can't just shove something like into a movie not designed for it and hope it becomes a hit. Its like hearing some film did great in black and white and turning your color movies to black and white to try and ride that wave. Stupid. You let people use that tech to deliver a vision they had for the whole film, not chuck it in and hope for the best.

The 70's movie Frankenstein in 3-D is among the worst I have ever seen. Except for the armpit licking scene, that was one of the most hilarious scenes ever filmed!

The Amazing Spiderman will bomb. I expect MIB III to bomb to since they started filming without a script just to save a buck.

The ticket price for 3D IMAX is already expensive enough.

The illusion of 3D is that it was marketed as a cool experience when watching movies. The truth is Deep Pockets in Hollywood are trying to combat piracy the best they can. Making movies 3 means you can't record them even IF you can avoid the lasers in the theaters.

It's pretty cruel to blame your consumers for online movie piracy. Now SONY wants you to pay for the security measures.

As always you need to see for yourself. Next time you sit in the theater look for the dancing video man. He's gone!! Movie companies have the utmost confidence in 3D being a deterrent to piracy.

The truth is.......I have yet to this day seen anyone try to set up a tripod in the theater and actually start recording. Furthermore, it's just too easy to spot and usually the actual video posted on the Internet is poor.

Why not admit to the fact that 90% of the time movie piracy is an inside job. Now with these high tech 3D systems you can't just hook a laptop to the digital projector and record. That thing has incredible security on it.

Check it out.

So after seeing a 3D movie, we walk out with the plasic ten cent glasses that we paid 400% for and then take them home to reuse at the next 3D movie. So why don't we do that?

Bye bye 3-D! Take your crap colours, annoying glasses and don't let the door hit your butt on the way out!