Watching TV in 3-D

Sony and Panasonic say they will release 3-D television home systems in 2010. For Sony, they will start selling their televisions in june. Sony is known for its playstation 3 and bravia flatscreen tvs. Said by Hosaka, "the 40 and 46 inch tv will be going on the market on June 10th in Japan, and the 52 and 60 inch tvs will be available on July 16th." There is no set release date in the United State but the senior vice president of Sony say it should release in the united states around the same time as Japan.

The prices for these tv's are pretty outrageous if you ask me! But some people may really want 3-D television and can afford the huge price tag. For the 40 inch tv in 3-D it will cost around $3,200 and the biggest 60 inch tv in 3-D will cost around $6,400. What will be included in this package is two pairs of the 3-D glasses, a camera sensor that will adjust the sound and picture quality based on the viewers position, and a remote control button which will enable the switch from a regular 2-D to 3-D.

Some people from CNN say that they will not be watching CNN in 3-D. The next generation televisions would be able to play shows in 2-D and 3-D picture. They will also be able to show video games in 3-D which sony demonstrated. Personally, for the prices of these televisions, I would probably go to a best buy and just try out the tv. I would never spend thousands of dollars just to watch tv, especially with 3-D glasses. I do not really see how someone can feel comforaltable wearing the glasses trying to watch the news. At the rate with all the new technology coming out now a days, I feel like there will just be something else coming out next year that will be bigger and better then the 3-D television.

Alice in Wonderland 3-D

We have all heard of the movie Alice in Wonderland right? Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are the centers of the movie and they have collaborated with one another to make this movie magical for its viewers. Recently, the 3-D picture sets a record opening weekend at $116.3 million dollars, beating that of the controversial movie "Avatar". There was an estimated amount that was said for the opening weekend which was $65-$75 million but the film surely went over that. Said by MSNBC, "Disney and 20th Century Fox competed over the available 3-D ready screens; screens outfitted for 3-D are rapidly rising, but still amount to fewer than 4,000 in the United States and Canada." Before "Alice in Wonderland" came out, the 3-D screens were still hooked on the movie "Avatar" which still at its 12th week of release earned $7.7 million over this past weekend, bringing its total up to $720.2 million dollars.

There were mixed reviews about this movie, there was 53% who would recommend the movie while the other 47% would not. Also said by MSNBC, that because the movie was in 3-D it caught more viewers attention to watch the classic Lewis Carroll movie. For the movies "Avatar" and "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs", 3-D helped their movies to sky rocket and make a bigger gross average and show in the box office.

Having "Alice" playing across on 188 IMAX screens in North America, the movie brought in $11.9 million domestically while the previous record was $9.5 by "Avatar". An IMAX chairman said "The momentum of 3-D is so massive right now, and that they were ready for a new movie." I beleive that once a movie gets turned into 3-D it will show in the box office because it seems more out of this world and cool to watch. Viewers will be more excited to watch the movies that they either once watched while they were younger or a brand new movie that they have never seen.