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Talking pictures: For many movies, 3-D is a needless gimmick
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Dolby's 3d spectral division system is the best you can get and its technology is the only one that eliminates ghosting totally. Basically the glasses have 50 film layers that can only decode a particular colour spectrum. Theres a duel colour spectrum wheel attached to the projector before the video chips that breaks the white light back into primary red, green and blue. the left eye image is filtered with RGB 1 spectrum and the right eye image is filtered with RGB 2. When the 3 video chips recombined each RGB video chip with the filtered light is returned to the correct colour. The image looks slightly doubled on screen as it should but the glasses give you perfect 3D. the depth is incredible.
Yes, that's exactly what he was saying. When he said: "Keep in mind that this is coming from a guy who's not particularly big on 3-D in the first place, though" he wasn't saying that as a way to show that some of his statements might be biased, since he's not a fan of the process and that those who like 3-D more might disagree. No, he was saying: "This is my opinion on 3-D, and since I'm the only person living on this planet it's the only valid opinion."
Very good.
That being said, I agree that there is no need for using 3d. It is NOT the future of cinema, because the 3d effect is artificial and not natural. Cinema uses a wonderful film process that makes the film come alive. The 3d glasses kill that effect.
Until a way can be found to give us the 3d, or rather the in person effect without having to wear anything on our faces, it will always be a gimmick.
Ciao
On the other hand, I'll agree it's not worth an extra $2 or $2.50.
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