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Audio-Omega 
I hope it will be shown in 2D as well.
bet it will be shown in 2D and 24 fps. there's no director or producer with enough clout to make all cinema operators upgrade their projection equipment at once. we saw the same pattern with high-resolution projectors once they became available. on the one hand there was the inevitable format war, just as with VHS and Betamax or with HDVD and BluRay, so that theaters dithered, no pun intented; and then there's the significant cost. on the other, proponents of high-res digital projectors have long argued that the cost would be offset somewhat by the studio not having to produce costly celluloid rolls of film to distribute physically. how much it would save to distribute digitally is not clear - it depends on security concerns (and we know Hollywood has them, with digital work prints leaking before official release dates, and so forth).
I have seen a number of 3D films and never found them better - some are gimmicky, some are hybrid and come across as ambivalent; it's a heavy-handed special FX thing for now. in the end, cinema like most other popular art forms has developed ways to get the audience to ignore or momentarily forget the tech trickery. 3D might eventually become as transparent as the many kinds of special FX that were jarring at first but are acceptable when they're deployed for narrative or audiovisual ends that justify them.
Edited by melomaniac - 4/15/11 at 8:43am
