--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "premanandpaul" <premanandp...@...> wrote: > > I have been a 3D enthusiast for many years, particularly > enjoyed the Edwardian Stereographic 3D cards - it is quite > easy to take 3D shots if one makes a little gadget to move > the camera side-to-side (I made mine out of bits of wood > and a keyhole plate). > 3D movies used to be pretty well caught up with the horror > genre but in Britain we had a spate of excellent 3D films > shown at a specialist cinema (IMAX in London), which required > wearing special glasses. The films gave excellent 3D effects > and covered a whole range of topics, from how New York was > built, to archaeology and dinosaurs to underwater exploration.
Still, it's a kind of 2D3D. You're stuck with a fixed POV. What I want is Hologram TV -- 3D that you can walk around and see all sides of. Then I'll rent the HTV versions of all those movies where my fave actresses were nude but with their backs to the camera and finally watch them the right way. :-) > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > I hadn't seen any of the latest crop of 3D movies at a theater so far > > so yesterday decided to go check out the B-Movie "The Final Destination > > 3D." I figured it would exercise the 3D gimmick well and it did not > > disappoint. I was also familiar with the "Final Destination" franchise > > which is about premonitions of death. It was also a gore fest so the > > weak of heart here might want to avoid. > > > > I've rented 3D movies on Blu-Ray but the effect was less than > > satisfactory because they use the red/green glasses which give some > > people headaches and throw color off. The "new" 3D in the theaters is > > really the "old" 3D but done digitally. The last 3D I saw in a theater > > was in the 1950's when they had those polarized glasses which don't > > throw the color off. You can't do that at home.... yet. Of course this > > give an idea to the consumer electronics companies to sell you yet > > another TV. You just got settled in with that nice big screen LCD HDTV > > and now they're talking about making 3D sets. > > > > I don't buy it or won't buy it. Yesterday's movie was appropriately > > gimmicky with no lack of things flying off the screen at you. But the > > 3D looks like cardboard cutouts and not the way we see things in 3 > > dimensions. IOW, it is exaggerated. I suspect if they could actually > > make a film that looks like the way we see everyday it would be a flop. > > >
