The only place I’m seeing premiums of $5 is in IMAX cinemas – suggest you complain !!

Simply put – KIDS UNDER FOUR dont yet have a brain that is developed fully enough to manage the process of watching real life 3D.

If you throw the illusion of 3D created by 3D filmmaking, then that age extents from about six up to possibly eight – which is the age when the majority of children will have fully developed their focuing and tracking muscles around their eyes.

This is the age when most children are picked up with reading problems – either from immaturity of their muscle development, or from other congenital problems.

On a very basic ergonomic level, the kids get annoyed if they are only offered adult sized glasses – as the spacing between the lenses is wrong, and the longer ear pieces mean that whenever they sit back in their seats, the ear pieces hit the chair, and the glasses fall off their nose !!

On a personal note – I noticed that my kids started to sit through and really enjoy 3D films from about 8, my son a little earlier than my daughter – but she has significant eye development issues with her focus and tracking muscles – the very muscles need for viewing 3D. Prior to a 4 month series of eye therapy, with an optometrist, she couldnt sit through more than about 5minutes without taking her glasses off, rubbing her eyes etc – now she can sit thru a whole movie if the stereography is well done. If it’s not, she’s a barometer for it, since she will literally yelp in pain. Recent films which seems to work well were Tangled & Megamind, Despicable Me, and while Guardians of Gahoole was good for most of the time – there was a point about 20minutes in where she let out a painful yelp, which made the people around her wonder if she had hurt herself.

People in the older set who have started to have hardening of their eye lenses, will have more difficulting with convergence, so will be more…

I know how you feel.

I’m cool with having options, but concerned they’ll take my options away.

Even though one child’s reaction can’t be extrapolated for valid research, my guess is that the kid speaks for the majority. We live in an age of lunacy with billions blown on what fools en masse feel has merit. In time reality confronts all concerned.

Social media was all the rage and is still considered great by smaller numbers. Betty White on NSL last May spoke for the sane of the world when she analyzed it all and concluded “It is a great waste of time.”

Murdoch is now preparing to sell MySpace (if he can find a buyer) because he is bleeding at the rate of hundreds of millions per quarter.

Money can be made ephemerally off gimmicks in entertainment but not for long.

1. why watch when you need glasses (there was an article – dont remember where i saw it – that stated people who tried out 3d tvs were less likely to buy them).

2. for 3d to be truly effective you need SIZE. even on a 50 in. screen 3d is a waste as you dont get the ‘immersion’ experience that it is trying to bring (hence why it works well in theaters – LARGE screens).