[adrotate banner=”7″]Not that they’ve shut down, they’re just not bothering to take out the polarized lenses from 3D films when projecting 2D digital films, causing the films to be much much darker as the polarized lens absorbs 50% of the light. Why are theaters leaving in the lenses? Because it is difficult as frak to take them out. As the article says…

The answer is that it takes time, it costs money, and it requires technical know-how above the level of the average multiplex employee. James Bond, a Chicago-based projection guru who serves as technical expert for Roger Ebert’s Ebertfest, said issues with the Sonys are more than mechanical. Opening the projector alone involves security clearances and Internet passwords, “and if you don’t do it right, the machine will shut down on you.’’ The result, in his view, is that often the lens change isn’t made and “audiences are getting shortchanged.’’

It’s like theaters don’t want us to come to them! Okay, if you say so, theaters…