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Why 3D Films are Still Hits Only in Theatres, Not in our Homes ?

August 22, 2010 By 2 Comments

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As recently as six months ago, movies in 3D were touted as the salvation of the movie business. They offered an experience home theatres could not duplicate, and theatre owners, in turn, charged more for tickets.

You probably have heard about Avatar, Piranha 3-D, Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, Despicable Me, Saw 3D, Titanic 3D and so on. It’s pretty clear that 3D is the movie industry’s selling point right now, and people are actually buying into it. But not much of these people buying into the 3D experience at home?

There are quite a few problems with making the transition from the big screen to the little one sitting in your living room. The first being the availability of three-dimensional content. You can’t even watch Avatar, the movie that really started the whole craze, in 3D in your living room. It just seems somewhat disappointing when the best 3D movie out today refuses to make an appearance in your home.

And there is also issue over those incredibly expensive and dorky looking 3D glasses. There is no set standard, and there is speculation that there won’t be one until a few years from now. This is a problem because if you want to purchase a new 3D television in the future, those 3D glasses might be incompatible and hundreds of dollars are flushed down the drain.

There is also the question over price. How much more are you willing to pay to experience a 3D movie? In movie theaters around where I live, 3D content comes at around a $3 – $5 premium.

But more dissident voices are being heard. Fans grumble that the $2 to $3 surcharge is too expensive, the films are often dimly lit, the 3D looks phony — or just plain bad. And filmmakers including Star Trek director J.J. Abrams and Inception director Christopher Nolan have groused about the push to convert to 3D some films shot in 2D.

Some Hollywood insiders speculate that interest in the format may have peaked with the huge success last Christmas of James Cameron’s Avatar. Its sure that the 3D craze still goes on. It is just a question of will this craze ultimately end up as a in-home reality or fantasy.

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  • Daron

    The 3D version of Clash of the Titans has surly destoyed some of the 3D audiance sure theres a few otheres to blame but after seenin how great Avatar was and how poorly done Clash is would make a hungh bunch of people question 3D its self ..

    I would sey over time people well get into seenin films in 3D but with the mistakes that have taken place this will take time , if films dont start pickin up within the next 8-10 ten movies i predict alot of future films will decease sure Alice in Wonderlad was a big hit and so was Toy Story 3 but these are targeted ad diffrent crowds then Avatar was through that was more mainstream but Clash fits nect to that film better then the other preveious mention films , and even to that was a big hit and all most all that seen it would be turned off from 3D for how long that depends.

    Step 3D underperformed and Piranha 3D dident go boxoffice and seems likly that too will not be a big hit both films will make a slight profit but it will diffrently question weather 3D was needed at all surly on those two films alone it hasent done much , with future big production films on the horizen Resident Evil , Drive Angey ect, that will be the real test weather 3D becomes mainstream sooner rather then later .

    As for Avatar i predict fall 2011 that give time for 3Dtvs to be established into homes and 3D movies become released generally .

  • Tony R

    Umm, 3d for home just came out like 5 months ago. If you were expecting a line around the block to buy a 3d tv at all best buy’s across the country, and then when there are not, I think you where expecting way to much. Just because there isn’t a line around the block doesn’t mean 3d at home won’t do what 3d has done at the box office so far. In fact in the early years of 3d at the theater starting with Polar Express in 2004, only something like 50 theaters showed it in 3d. From 2004 to 2007 all I read was how 3d at the box office was just going now where. Now I wonder where the authors of those articles are at now.