Setting up seating in your 3d home cinema The 3D age has well and truly begun, no longer a preserve of the big screen in movie theatres but finally available in homes around the world, providing you are willing to invest in a 3D TV and the necessary equipment to make the effects pop out [...]
“TV makers believe they could blame disappointing sales of 3-D TVs last year partly on the bulky glasses they came with. They’re trying to tackle that this year by introducing sets that work with lighter, cheaper glasses of the kind used in theaters. Manufacturers don’t plan to completely supplant 3-D TVs with the heavier, battery-powered [...]
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PCMAG: If finding the right HDTV wasn’t hard enough, now you need to decide if you want to make the leap to 3D. Walk into your local electronics store today and you’ll see 3D TVs from Panasonic and Samsung. Last week, Sony announced that you could preorder one of its Bravia 3D LED TVs, and LG, Sharp, Vizio, [...]
“The TVs are selling much better than we anticipated, but people don’t seem to realize you need 3D content as well,” said Gregory I. Goff, assistant general manager of Best Buy in Holyoke. As 3D programming becomes more common, sales will likely rise, he said. “That’s what we’re hoping. ESPN plans to launch in June [...]
He said you could get a good experience with Avatar in 2D, and said 90% of what he did on the film had nothing to do with 3D – from writing the story to hiring the actors. He said 3D was an additional experience, so when it was available in 3D in theaters people wanted [...]
Kotaku: “Not with video games. Not with the World Cup. But with that long standing killer app: pornography. This summer Sony is bringing 3D games to the PlayStation 3, and Nintendo is introducing its “glasses-free” portable gaming device. But as the Japanese 3D television market begins to heat up, the country’s adult industry is hoping [...]
With a number of high-profile events already in the can, 3DTV is ready to break out of the gates with ESPN showcasing the World Cup in the format next month. But there’s still a very long way to go, in terms of consumer adoption, before the emerging technology comes close to critical mass. “This definitely [...]
This weekend, Shrek Forever After, the fourth film in the long-running and incredibly profitable DreamWorks franchise, stumbled out of the gate with a relatively disappointing $71 million opening weekend. The film was projected to open in the $80-$120 million range and had the widest release–a staggering 4,359 theaters this weekend– of a PG-rated film in history. Read [...]
Avatar, Clash of the Titans and the upcoming Tintin trilogy – all of them big budget movies made in 3D. But it’s not quite as straightforward as that. The price you pay to watch a 3D movie at the cinema is always the same – but there are several ways of tricking your eyes into [...]
The next time you go shopping, try this: Walk into an electronics store and ask for a demo of 3D (three-dimension) TVs. This request will not only draw the store manager’s attention but will also ensure that all your queries are answered with utmost politeness — in the hope of converting you into a buyer. [...]
Iron Man 2 was originally planned to be shot in 3D IMAX. Unfortunately, that idea didn’t work out as director John Favreau had hoped. He said in a press conference last month that budget issues were one of the reasons why that didn’t happen. What were the other reasons? Paramount, the studio responsible for IM2, [...]
Moviegoers, warming to technical terms like “convergence” and “stereospace,” have become more cognizant of the difference between good and bad 3-D. Critics have weighed in on its shortcomings. And the general aura of novelty was never going to last forever. “People are definitely starting to see the difference,” said Jon Chu, director of “Step Up [...]
Director James Cameron, whose blockbuster “Avatar” set off a 3D frenzy in the movie industry, on Thursday told television producers to put aside their worries about higher filming costs and embrace the technology. Read More at; http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64C1CE20100513
There’re many avenues to play back 3D content–from movies to games and TV shows–through the latest home cinema, game console and computer. The problem, however, is a lack of a new unified 3D format across these platforms to guarantee full compatibility between different 3D hardware and software. For example, you cannot simply connect a 3D-enabled [...]
Perhaps no company has promoted 3D harder than DreamWorks Animation, which created Monsters vs. Aliens (the first 3D Blu-ray movie I’ve seen) as well as the recent How To Train Your Dragon and the upcoming Shrek Forever After in 3D. These movies have probably done more to push 3D than anything other than Avatar. Read More at; http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2010/05/dreamworks_making_3d_movies.php
More than 800,000 households will have bought a 3D-ready television before the end of this year, but fewer than one in eight will actually be watching 3D programmes on it, a new report predicts. Read More at; http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/may/06/3d-tv
After the rush by audiences to Hollywood 3-D blockbusters “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” game designers and developers are hoping to strike gold with 3-D gaming. Today’s best games, already immersive experiences thanks to large-screen TVs and sophisticated graphics, could become even more intense in three dimensions — imagine “God of War III” in full, [...]
3D TVs are trickling into Australian lounge rooms, and could be in yours for less than $2500, writes Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson. The next big thing in television could cause twitching, nausea, headaches, altered vision, dizziness or seizures. Or, more likely, it could make home-cinema aficionados rush into shops and inspect what manufacturers have called “the biggest [...]
The Blu-Ray copy of Avatar is the best selling Blu-ray disc of all time, but no word yet on when a 3D version will come to homes. The Blu-ray version of the movie Avatar was released on April 22 to record sales, and an “ultimate edition” is due in November, but many are left wondering when [...]
So that got me thinking: Do YOU recycle your 3D glasses? According to Geek Sugar, 42.1 million 3D glasses have been distributed for Avatar alone. That number is huge and seems kind of contradictory considering the movie’s theme, as well as Fox’s special “Earth Day” Blu-ray/DVD release for the blockbuster. Read More at; http://www.electronichouse.com/article/recycle_your_3d_movie_glasses/C157
The final result wiped the smiles off the faces of Stoke City fans, but the chance to watch the team in 3D was something they will never forget. Football in 3D arrived on screens in the UK earlier this year, but for Potters fans it was the first chance to see the players in a [...]
Since Avatar is a smashing success in Blu-ray 2D, does this mean that consumers are blasé about 3D entertainment in the home? After all, content drives adoption of new consumer technologies, at least most of the time. If shoppers are snapping up Avatar discs now, it is quite possible they’ll pass on the 3D version–well, aside from [...]
DVD sales dropped 13 percent last year, but the entertainment industry is looking towards future sales of 3D DVDs to help stabilize revenue. But first, more people need to buy 3D TVs. Read more at;http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/22/am-hollywood-will-push-3d-tv/
As Sony announces it’s going to run courses to help filmmakers understand how to make 3D movies without giving the audience a headache in the process, the jury – even post-Avatar – still seems to be very firmly out on the technology, even if it’s increasingly becoming a moot argument. For, right now, more and [...]
I got to don yet another pair of sexy 3D glasses at Panasonic’s Melbourne launch yesterday, checking out Panasonic’s new 50+ inch VT20 3D-capable plasmas which are set to go on sale in June. The result was certainly on par with Sony’s demo in February, although I prefer the design of Sony’s 3D glasses. It’s [...]
“1) Glasses – Consumers have shown they’ll don 3D glasses in large public venues (i.e. theaters and theme parks). Why wouldn’t they do so in the privacy of their own home. Glasses are also a stop-gap as auto-stereoscopic technologies develop and the associated price tag softens.” Read the Article at: http://www.electronichouse.com/article/10_reasons_3d_will_succeed/
Cinema Blend has an interesting article on why the new movie “Kick-Ass” was such a bomb at the box office this weekend. Yes, the film didn’t have a huge, mass appeal, but its weekend take of only $20 million shows that it missed the mark by a LARGE margin. Among all of the reasons a film [...]
Nvidia disables 3D if you don’t see its effects. 3D TV effects are wasted on a portion of the population, about 4 percent to 10 percent of us. When shown 3D content, some people in this group see double or blurry images, or suffer from eyestrain or headaches that makes the content unenjoyable, to say [...]
Lately, I’ve spent some time checking out Samsung’s first 3D LED TV, and I’ve found it very impressive Not only is it one of the first 3D TVs on the market, but it also does a great job with normal HD content and provides a variety of “widgets” capable of bringing in information from the Internet. The [...]
Two-dimensional images are so 2009. 2010 promises to be theyear of 3D TV, and there’s no shortage of eye-popping displays on the way. Sharp recently announced its “Aquos” 3D LCD TV, billed as the world’s first four-primary-color 3D LCD set; LG is working on an LED-backlit 3D TV of its own. Samsung’s even starting to mass-produce its 3D [...]
Dan Murbarger uses special 3D glasses to watch the Masters Golf Tournament at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City Thursday. Al Schultz, left, and Tim Ermish enjoy an eye-popping view of the tournament. Comcast hosted a viewing demonstration for the 3D broadcast of the tournament — the first time ever that a sporting [...]
I watched my first live sports broadcast in 3D, and it didn’t go smoothly. But, I still think it has potential. Are you a golf fan? What’s your take? When it comes to 3D, most of us have only ever donned those special glasses in a movie theater, or, if we’re very lucky, in front [...]
I got a glimpse at the future of television today at the Masters, and it was pretty cool. Move over HD, here comes 3D. The Masters is the first major sporting event broadcast in 3D, but that means little to those of us who have yet to make the 3DTV purchase. I am among you. [...]
“Well, the picture looked blurry without the glasses. Like double vision, or if someone just smacked me in the head. Then I put on the glasses. It was an event sponsored by Comcast (which seems to be calling itself xFinity now for some reason). It was held at the Connecticut Science Center because this was [...]
James Cameron’s Avatar and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland constituted the one-two punch that convinced Hollywood — and everyone else under the sun — that there’s a lot of money to be made in releasing stereo 3D entertainment to movie theaters. In fact, the case made by Avatar’s box-office gross was so forceful that studios [...]
Fast-forward to today’s 3D theatrical experience. Thanks to improved technology and a desire by studios to draw consumers into theaters in a world of myriad entertainment options, there’s been a renaissance in 3D film and television. Hollywood studios are putting 3D content into more films, and TV makers are equipping sets to bring the technology [...]
In response to the growing craze, exhibitors across the country have hiked the surcharges for 3-D movie tickets. That trend finally hit Lubbock this past weekend, with Cinemark raising the additional price of a 3-D movie ticket from $2.50 to $2.75. You pay that charge on top of the normal ticket price. While some may [...]
Ever heard of StreamTV? Us neither. Yet there it is, a pair of entries just added today to Amazon.com. Most interesting is the 42-inch 3D TV that, like its 37-inch bro, includes a built-in 500GB HDD, Blu-ray player, and “full browsing capabilities using Entertainment Portal.” Oh, and it doesn’t require 3D glasses. Do you believe it? [...]
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