How badly do you want to watch 3D movies at home? Scale of 1 to 10, let’s say. I’m a 1—I patently have zero interest in 3D movies. (If I want to see a story in 3D I’ll go to Broadway to see a play. Bam, 3D.) I ask because there’s a company out there, Sonic Solutions, that appears to be ramping up for a major rollout of at-home 3D movies.
Sonic is working with the likes of Nvidia to bring 3D movies to PC users via Roxio CinemaNow. When that’ll actually go down, who knows. Just know that they’re working on it.
And Sonic is working on said 3D movies be of that sort that doesn’t require special glasses. As someone who wears glasses, I can’t tell you how sad it makes me to not be able to put on a pair of Top Gun shades as I’m cruising the Go-Go-Goya aisle.
Meanwhile, you can actually buy 3D movies that do use 3D glasses. Coraline, for example, comes with a 3D version of the film on the special edition, no fancy Nvidia PC required.
This will need glasses. Not cardboard red/blue anaglyph glasses, but the NVidia active shutter glasses as seen at CES. Better than cardboard, but still suck for us four-eyes. Also, the flicker those glasses cause gives me headaches.
Hype can usually ruin a lot of things,BUT, Disney’s Digital3D was brilliant and didn’t cause any kind of headache or “tired” eyes,plus, UP! was a damn good movie to boot.
Theatres use passive polarizing glasses (screen/projector is expensive, but glasses are cheaper – what a theatre needs when giving the public glasses) which I find much more comfortable.
Home appears oriented to active glasses as it makes the screen cheaper (works with most DLPs today) and glasses more expensive (which is good unless you tend to lose/break glasses). Also is better for backwards compatibility with 2D. Polarizing screens make everything less bright which would suck for your regular 2D content to be compromised.
I would love to even do this in theaters. The glasses hurt my eyes!
What business does a blogger who repeatedly bashes new technology have “writing” (and I use that term loosely) for a tech site?
please i spend alot of mony to bring 3d to my home but i canot worked i had shutter glass and nivida gts 250 and projector 6220 ans 2233 samsong lcd if anyone help me plz send to my email how can i play 3d movie on any of this my mail basma_wasfy@yahoo.com