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3D Polarized Glasses are used in new age technologies of making and viewing movies. They are also given to tourists in theme parks to watch amazing videos. The characters seem to pop out from the screen and come directly to you, which give an inexplicable thrill to the viewers .The principles behind them, are explained below.

History of 3D glasses
Though the very first 3D cinema was made way back in 1922, 1950s is considered to be a decade of 3D movies. Since these movies needed two prints for projection, maintaining them precisely intact every time after repair was a cumbersome job. If the synchronization was lost, the film/movie would become totally unwatchable. Secondly, side seating was not much useful for watching a 3D movie in those days, since the person had to tilt his or her head or the characters would appear ghostlike. Hence after the decade of 50s, there was a decline in the production of these movies. But since all the obstacles in these areas are overcome, we are seeing a new resurgence in the technology of 3D polarized glasses. Some people may look at it just as a novel way of watching a movie, movie goers across the world now have welcomed this technology with open arms or should one say with 3D glasses! In today’s world movies like Kung Fu Panda, Spy Kids 3D, Freddy’s Dead are being made and are running successfully all over the world.

How Do These Glasses Work?
Different polarization is given to each lens of these glasses. Each of the lenses of these glasses filters polarization of one kind. The brain will then bring together these two images. This phenomenon takes place exactly like the naked eye. It is called binocular vision. This gives the illusion as if the object being viewed has a depth.

These lenses are cut at 45° opposite to each other to view stereo pairs projected through left and right polarizing filters. These glasses are meant for viewing 3D cinemas, 3D laser shows, music concerts, video games. Two types of polarized glasses are made – one is linear polarized and other is called circular polarized. These glasses are made using cardboard or plastic. Generally same size fits all. The 3D polarized glasses are manufactured in many different shapes and types. They can be purchased from websites or directly from shops. Sometimes they are offered for free from the movie producers or the websites.

Now you would understand what hard work goes into making a 3D movie. Movie buffs across the world have always appreciated new techniques and one can be sure 3D polarized glasses are no exception to it. So they are here to stay to make your movie watching experience more and more thrilling!

Many of us wonder how much do bollywood actors earn actually. A lot of sources keep on providing the details every now and then. The sources are no where acceptable who claim to give the figures about top paid bollywood actors. The data differs in many contexts. It can be regarding a single film or the overall earning made throughout the career. The study may be either from the tax paid in a year or the rough data provided by the share received from the blockbusters. It is very difficult to find out how much does an actor earn actually. The actor him/herself never reveals the fact and so do the producers. There’s no point doing this either.

The bollywood trend of earning from an actor’s point of view has been changed in recent years. The days are seem to be gone when actors were only given the salary and the rough data to examine the highest paid actor was as easy as the rough calculations of overall earning of the films could be made. The latest news said that Mr. Salman Khan has topped the highest paid bollywood actor list by claiming Rs. 17.5 Crore for his upcoming movie Ready. Many of us may calculate the amount money as his salary for the film. But Actors are seeking partnership in the films these days. It’s obvious, as they are what inspire the audience at first when a film is considered. If Salman really receives the amount, he’ll definitely top the list. Aamir Khan has been in profit sharing since long. He has already collected huge sum of money since Lagan time. Every big actor is doing the same.

Actors are Celebs and they have numbers of way to earn. They endorse brands, seen on advertisements and programs and events all around. All these are torrent of money. I watched an interview of Sharukh Khan some two years back in Aaj Tak, where he was proclaiming even his sneezing earns him money. So when a questions like ‘how much does an actor earn?’ or searches like ‘highest paid actors’ come so easy, the answer is difficult. It’ll always remain rough assumption trying to find how much is an actor paid for a single film. As I’ve said earlier, the actor or any other concerned person never tells the truth. When it comes to the overall earning, then there’s no other way than the Income Tax department. But it can’t be the final answer of our question since the actor certainly doesn’t want to pay the 30% of their intact income. I bet there must be large number of the actors hiding bundles of money under their couches, daybeds and .other things private.

According to Hindustan Times, Actors paid Income tax as given below in Second Quarter (Q2) of 2011 FY.

Sharukh Khan: Rs. 5 Crore against Rs. 3.5 crore in Q2 of 2010 FY (Previous Time.)

Akshya Kumar: Rs. 4.5 Crore against the same amount in previous time.

Aamir Khan: Rs. 4 Crore against Rs. 3.5 Crore in previous time.

Saif Ali Khan and Ranbir Kapoor: Rs. 2.5 Crore.

Salman Khan: Rs. 2 Crore against Rs. 2.5 crore in previous time.

Katrina Kaif: Rs. 1.3 crore against Rs. 1 Crore in previous time.

Kareena Kapoor: Rs. 1 Crore against Rs. 80 Lakh in previous time.

Vidzshare is a site that allows users to download videos from various sites that host videos, but do not allow direct download. This site is primarily utilised by users eager to download YouTube videos, and this fact should not come as surprise. YouTube has perhaps the largest stock of videos in any single location in the world, and the sheer variety of these videos is simply mind-boggling. Chasing down music videos and trailers is easy enough on YouTube, as is looking up interviews—a good chunk of televised interviews are uploaded to YouTube.com with fair regularity. It is even possible to catch up on a missed episode from a TV show, or even watch an entire movie in segments on the site.

However, sites like Vidzshare are needed, and that with some urgency, in order to allow users to gully utilise the vast stock of videos available at YouTube. This is because YouTube.com does not allow users to download videos—this is a policy followed by similar sites—and so there is always an element of uncertainty present in using YouTube; nobody can be quite sure that their favourite video will still be at the URL they last found it, or, really, anywhere on the site at all. YouTube videos are often deleted because of copyright infringement, which is all as it should be; but these videos also go offline because the original uploader deletes and/or deactivates their account. This loss of content is annoying at best—you might be unable to purchase the movie that disappeared, for financial or other reasons—and fairly harmful at worst—you might be using a YouTube video in a presentation and/or paper, simply because it is the only location where the video can be found.

Vidzshare is a free site, via which you can download videos—from YouTube, Google Videos, Metacafe, Spike, MySpace, FaceBook, Vimeo, Hi%, and a variety of other sites—in several formats. The procedure for downloading is fairly simple, you have to copy-paste the URL of the video into a little widget that appears on the home-page of SaveVid.com, and press ‘Download’. A download link is generated, and clicking on this will cause the download to begin. Some of the downloaded files might have to be renamed—for YouTube videos the extension has to be changed to .flv—and the files sometimes need to be converted to other formats to allow them to be played. This conversion can be done with relative ease—there are various softwares available on the Internet that can do this—and if the user prefers not to convert the files, there are compatible players available—VLC Player, for instance, is compatible with nearly every format of audio and/or video file.