RE: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D monitors and finishing

Just saw this 3D critique on Tim's Gizmodo link:

http://gizmodo.com/5493832/the-movie-studios-big-3d-scam?skyline=true
<http://gizmodo.com/5493832/the-movie-studios-big-3d-scam?skyline=true&s=i>
&s=i

Looks like we'll be getting Titanic in 3D. I can see the Execs sitting
around group-thinking about potential titles to re-release in 3D.

Excerpt:

Milking the 3D cow

This problem will get even worse when you all get sucked into buying a 3D TV
for your living room where the size of the screen fills even less of your
view. And now there's talk on the rumor mill of re-releasing Titanic in 3D?
Watch out for a flood of classics being shoved down the fake stereoscopic
pipeline and into your Blu-ray player for an extra $10. Hopefully Cameron
will continue to help set a higher standard.

And there's the final nail in this absurd 3D show: The eyeglasses. Simply,
watching a $200+ million dollar movie with $.03 crappy plastic glasses is
just silly. They are not only optically poor but they take almost a full
stop of light out of the image. That's almost half the amount of light!
None of the prints or projectors I have seen
<http://gizmodo.com/tag/3dmovies/> 3D movies in properly compensate to
counteract that loss of light. When I saw
<http://gizmodo.com/5486765/review-alice-in-wonderland-3d-doesnt-need-the-3d
> Alice In Wonderland at one of the industry screenings-where you think it
would be dialed in just right-the image was still painfully dark. The
situation in a majority of theaters out there is as bad or worse.

In the end, do it right or just don't do it. Or more importantly, for all
the studio execs out there, just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Les Nagy

Chicago

lnagy@maladaahn.com

www.maladaahn.com

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
switthaus
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:48 AM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D monitors and finishing

...makes me incredibly glad to be out of the post-house business...

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> , "Les
Nagy" <lnagy@...> wrote:
>
> More recent, post-NAB article:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ycqljbw
>
> Crazy!
>
> Les Nagy
> Chicago
> lnagy@...
> www.Maladaahn.com
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"switthaus" <switthaus@> wrote:
> >
> > this link:
> >
> >
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/panasonic-developing-1080p-twin-lens-p2-c
amcorder-for-native-3d/
>

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