Movie Talk (New Films, Old Films... doesn't matter) (55 Viewers)
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Can you imagine watching Some Like it Hot in colour? How about Citizen Kane? 2D is an aberration - we accept it because we've never had the technology to do 3D right. There will come a time when choosing to film in 2D will be an artistic decision, no more typical than shooting Schindler's List in monochrome.
The argument that it's not possible to pirate a 3D film is beyond stupid. I can think of half a dozen ways of doing it off the top of my head, and half of them are cheap - heck, if you're okay with just getting a 2D version of the film, you can do it with a camera and one of the lenses out of those 3D glasses they sell for a €1 at my local cinema. It'll take a year or two for piracy to fully catch up, but anyone who thinks this will have much of an impact on it is completely ignorant of the technology.
The current generation of 3D technology is still far from perfect, but it's miles ahead of old colour filters and horizontal/vertical polarisation. I don't see the glasses as a fatal problem, but auto-stereoscopic 3D is a major research topic in optics and computer science (machine vision): we'll get there. In the mean time, Sony will have a 3D TV out by the end of the year, so the home market is coming.
I think that most of the moaning about 3D is Luddite conservativism, and the other half is people old enough to remember failed 3D technologies of the past. The physiological effects which caused nausea in older technologies are mostly gone - what's left is, as I understand it, almost entirely due to animation artefacts screwing with people who have a strange propensity to focus on the out of focus elements of a picture.
The argument that it's not possible to pirate a 3D film is beyond stupid. I can think of half a dozen ways of doing it off the top of my head, and half of them are cheap - heck, if you're okay with just getting a 2D version of the film, you can do it with a camera and one of the lenses out of those 3D glasses they sell for a €1 at my local cinema. It'll take a year or two for piracy to fully catch up, but anyone who thinks this will have much of an impact on it is completely ignorant of the technology.
The current generation of 3D technology is still far from perfect, but it's miles ahead of old colour filters and horizontal/vertical polarisation. I don't see the glasses as a fatal problem, but auto-stereoscopic 3D is a major research topic in optics and computer science (machine vision): we'll get there. In the mean time, Sony will have a 3D TV out by the end of the year, so the home market is coming.
I think that most of the moaning about 3D is Luddite conservativism, and the other half is people old enough to remember failed 3D technologies of the past. The physiological effects which caused nausea in older technologies are mostly gone - what's left is, as I understand it, almost entirely due to animation artefacts screwing with people who have a strange propensity to focus on the out of focus elements of a picture.
