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Topic: Alternative to RealD - Shutter Glasses
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-11-2006 03:31 AM
Quite a few years ago now I bought a system from 3DTV,Inc. It consisted of original 3D films from the 50s (HOUSE OF WAX, DIAL M FOR MURDER, etc) and some newer ones (JAWS 3D, HALOWEEN 3D, STARCHASER, ANDY W's FRANKENSTEIN, etc). The electronics are no bigger than a cigarette box with jack to plug in the Toshiba shutter headgear and an RCA jack for grabbing the signal from a regular composit output from the vcr (no DVD at the time). I projected the image thru an Advent VideoBeam to an 8ft screen and the results, while only SVHS quality and enough flicker to give an epileptic a seizure, it WAS 3D with as much depth as in any good 3D presentation I've seen using two strip film. And me having been crazy in love with 3D since I was 10, if you give me 3D depth, I will suffer NTSC low rez video with substantial flicker any day.
All that to say that the same company 3DTV also had a box that would take a composit signal and split it so that if you did have two projectors, you could do simultanious double image and use only passive polaroid.
On the other hand, with this volume of current 3D releases that seems not to stop coming, I am just waiting for the studios to see the goldmind they have and release these new title in this alternate frame system on DVD. After all, they have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are really primarily interested in DVD sales anyway. With HD/Blueray DVDs the rez would be much better than SVHS. How short a jump will it be for them to see the potential of being able to get their 3D releases into the home IN 3D? My recollection is that the headgear cost about $20 per unit, not much more than the ticket price for the lastest 3D offering at the theatres. I sure as hell would be in line to buy those 3D DVDs.
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