Absolute Gadget

Many people now prefer to watch movies on their big, flashy plasma TVs at home on Dvd or increasingly Blu-ray, so why would anyone want to get near a cinema? Well, if you are passing Wimbledon or Greenwich, you might want to have a look at the new cinemas there, they've got 3D Imax screens, doncha know!

So if you want to watch the latest Batman movie, these new screens mean you can do so in glorious 3D. Not only that, you don't have to wear cheap and nasty paper glasses - it's gone all snazzy black plastic.

Imax has also worked on the sound technology so that it sounds good no matter where ou sit.

Somethings are still the same, i.e. price. Adults will have to pay £11.50 to see the likes of Harry Potter in 3D, while the kids costs £8.50.

But the £1.5m screens at Greenwich and Wimbledon are only the start. Odeon is to increase the number of 3D digital Imax screens to 45 in the UK.

And there is an increasing number of films being shot in the new format. Dreamworks is going 100 per cent 3D digital as is Pixar. Next year sees the release of Alan Moore's Watchmen in the format as well as Transformers II and James Cameron's Avatar.

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