Posted on 04/23/2011 7:18:10 AM PDT by Clint Williams
Phoghat writes
"The entertainment and electronics industries keep trying to push 3D on consumers, even though a lot of smart people have caught on to the fact that it is a scam and not innovation as the industry would like you to believe. From the article: 'This is a bad experiment that the industry is forcing consumers to subsidize. And since they can’t create a better product, they’ve simply latched on to 3D as a marketing ploy that the entertainment and electronics industries can use to trick people into thinking that they are getting a superior experience. It’s only working because just enough people are falling for the scam to keep it alive.'"
watch a 3-D movie and my eyes are so weird I don't trust myself driving for nearly 30 minutes later.
Wonder if it is the longer exposure that does that? My wife has the same problem.
I missed Earthquake in sensurround but they used it for Midway also. It had Heston in it as well and I got to feel it in theatre for that one. It shook you in your seat for whenever there was an explosion on screen.
The process does tire and weird out your eyes and length of exposure would be a factor. The occasional 3D is ok but I would quickly begin to hate it if it was an everyday thing.
Check out the latest Panasonic 65 inch plasma with 3d. I checked it out and it’s awesome, the 3d effect is incredible. If you have a PS3 it is also a 3d blu-ray player, provided you did the firmware update via the internet. 3d games look really cool too.
The Panasonic uses glasses, I”m hoping soon you can get the same effect without glasses.
I had sentimental reasons for preferring a plasma TV. I studied engineering where the original tech was developed, and one of my classmates led its commercial R&D and licensing for many years.
But when it came time to get a TV display again (after not personally having one for several years) I went looking in the stores, paying special attention to the plasma displays and comparing them to the LCD/LED models.
Over the period of a year and a half, and observing a dozen plasmas set up in half a dozen stores, I consistenly noticed poor contrast from the plasmas compared to the others. Every single plasma had a greenish tint where the image should be black.
Sabotage? How could it be occurring in every display unit in every store over such a period of observation?
I finally threw in the towel and got a Samsung "LED." (I wonder what the'll call real LED TVs when they arrive.)
A little off topic, but I also got a Samsung receiver that plays movies from the internet. That plus my DVD/Blu-ray collection are all I watch.
I have a Netflix on-line viewing account, but many of the shows are difficult, some impossible, to watch because of hiccups in the transmission. A friend has a Roku box which apparently fetches and stores entire programs/movies ahead of time, so you don't see the transmission hangups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRPMetvTAYw
Ralph Kramden would buy a 3D TV.
But I hear better stuff is coming so I am holding out.
I saw Avatar in 3D IMAX. It was breathtaking! I went and saw it again. It was again breathtaking. Very seldom have I ever felt a movie was worth the price of admission in recent years, but this was worth much more.
Was the movie a silly liberal fantasy? Yes. Were the special effects well done? Extremely. But the 3D made up for for the film’s faults, and elevated the film’s other strengths to such a degree that I’d gladly go see it again.
Now, home 3D? My wife wants it - badly! But I’d just as soon spend our money on SHTF supplies, and my time planting food and cleaning our guns. Home 3D ain’t gonna be worth much when the grid goes down in the coming conflagration.
3D makes me dizzy.
I already see in 3D without nausea producing glasses.
I’d probably pay a premium for 3D gaming, but I find it doesn’t add to the movie experience.
“Midway”, that’s the other movie I was trying to remember. Thank you.
I opted to wait for the DVD rental or HBO.
Andy Worhol’s Frankenstein. Can’t really say anything more than that!
Smell-a-vision release of, "Blazing Saddles"?
The 3D movies at the theaters don’t have the blue and red glasses. They look like sunglasses. I don’t know if that would make a difference with color blindness or not.
Myth. Colorblindness wouldn’t effect even the old 3D with the colored glasses. The different colored lenses block different parts of the visible light spectrum whether the user can perceive the colors or not. Modern 3D uses a polarized system instead of colored lenses.
I had to hardwire my (also) Samsung BR player to my router to stop the hiccups. I tried everything, but using the wireless, Netflix choked from time to time.
I saw “Earthquake” in Sensurround when I was a kid, and my idiot buddy and I sat in the balcony with a paper bag of plaster chips. When those big bass Sensurround speakers started to rumble he threw handfuls of plaster down on the heads of the people below. Caused quite a stir.
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