just4kix
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Long before the success of Avatar 3D, people were wondering whether it was possible to bring the 3D magic to the home scene.
To the uninitiated, some background helps. A 3D movie is shot with a special camera which has twin lenses and irises. The combined picture is super imposed on one another at an offset. A special 3D projector projects this image. When such an image is projected, to the naked (normal) eye the projection looks like a blurry ghosted image. But with special (polarized) 3D glasses, each eye sees an independent image and this gives the stereoscopic vision.
Is it possible to bring this technology into the home? Hardly possible, said many. The medium of watching at home is the good old television - whether CRT or the latest LED-lit-LCD - it was a 2D medium anyway.
But latest Blu-Ray and DVDs have broken the barrier. The movies on such discs contain a misty/ghostly/fuzzy image already - a 3D image in reality. The box contains four 3D glasses. No. These are not the high quality polarized Dolby Digital glasses that you wore while watching Avatar 3D. Instead these are very ordinary - red on one eye and blue/green on another type - the ones that you got in the yester-years.
You get the 3D effect while watching alright.
So any drawbacks?
Well, yes. In the TV. The 3D effect on the TV gives the feeling that the TV has depth. The 3D image does not come standing out - instead what you see is an image that appears to go deep into the TV. But on projection, it appears to be OK.
I have got the Blu-Ray disc of Mosters vs. Aliens that contains a 10 minute clip called Bob's Big Break. I watched the clip on TV as well as on projection.
First impressions. Reasonable 3D. Not in Avatar quality. But at least I am not spending Rs. 50~100 for glasses alone.
To the uninitiated, some background helps. A 3D movie is shot with a special camera which has twin lenses and irises. The combined picture is super imposed on one another at an offset. A special 3D projector projects this image. When such an image is projected, to the naked (normal) eye the projection looks like a blurry ghosted image. But with special (polarized) 3D glasses, each eye sees an independent image and this gives the stereoscopic vision.
Is it possible to bring this technology into the home? Hardly possible, said many. The medium of watching at home is the good old television - whether CRT or the latest LED-lit-LCD - it was a 2D medium anyway.
But latest Blu-Ray and DVDs have broken the barrier. The movies on such discs contain a misty/ghostly/fuzzy image already - a 3D image in reality. The box contains four 3D glasses. No. These are not the high quality polarized Dolby Digital glasses that you wore while watching Avatar 3D. Instead these are very ordinary - red on one eye and blue/green on another type - the ones that you got in the yester-years.
You get the 3D effect while watching alright.
So any drawbacks?
Well, yes. In the TV. The 3D effect on the TV gives the feeling that the TV has depth. The 3D image does not come standing out - instead what you see is an image that appears to go deep into the TV. But on projection, it appears to be OK.
I have got the Blu-Ray disc of Mosters vs. Aliens that contains a 10 minute clip called Bob's Big Break. I watched the clip on TV as well as on projection.
First impressions. Reasonable 3D. Not in Avatar quality. But at least I am not spending Rs. 50~100 for glasses alone.
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