[Tassium]

For the upcoming 3D film "Avatar" that is.

CH4 have history, they went ape over the "Night at the Museum 2" film with endless plugs and endless showings of the first film just prior to the sequels release.


The 3D programmes on offer for 3D week are so few and so dire that it looks cheaply cobbled together.

I am half expecting many promotions of Avatar during this, so-called, 3d week across all channel4 programmes.

[Gae41]

Avatar hardly needs help in promoting itself...ha ha

More likely it's a promotion for 3D itself as it's obvious that there is a resurgence of interest in it...both in the Cinema and on the Net. This time, it might finally come of age....although Channel 4's 3D week is hardly state of the art 3D technology is it? ColorCode is just the old anaglyph method which has failed on several occasions before.

Roll on 2010 and the appearance of more true stereoscopic content along with 3D displays capable of showing full colour, full brightness 3D that inspires "oohs" and "aahs".

Gae41

[ScottishWoody]

Avatar isn't the only film in 3D you know.

[Robert__law]

Originally Posted by Gae41

Avatar hardly needs help in promoting itself...ha ha

More likely it's a promotion for 3D itself as it's obvious that there is a resurgence of interest in it...both in the Cinema and on the Net. This time, it might finally come of age....although Channel 4's 3D week is hardly state of the art 3D technology is it? ColorCode is just the old anaglyph method which has failed on several occasions before.

Roll on 2010 and the appearance of more true stereoscopic content along with 3D displays capable of showing full colour, full brightness 3D that inspires "oohs" and "aahs".

Gae41

colour code is not the same old anaglyph method unlike the original system this is in colour and I was quite impressed with the chuck program which used the same system if more programs using this system would alow 3D with out the need to spend £100s on a new TV

[Ivor Fanny]

Whats all this about needing new tv and new 3d set top box then???

Isnt channel 4 showing The Queen in 3D next week- all i need is a pair of glasses from sainsburys.

[chattamanuk]

Originally Posted by Ivor Fanny

Whats all this about needing new tv and new 3d set top box then???

Isnt channel 4 showing The Queen in 3D next week- all i need is a pair of glasses from sainsburys.

It's only this... http://www.channel4.com/programmes/3...uide/series-1/ not the film!

[Gae41]

colour code is not the same old anaglyph method unlike the original system this is in colour and I was quite impressed with the chuck program which used the same system if more programs using this system would alow 3D with out the need to spend £100s on a new TV

Yes it is. ColorCode still uses filters and therefore has colour degradation and causes other problems like eyestrain. I agree that ColorCode does have slightly better colours than the red/blue 3D but it's harder on the eyes too...especially if you are right eye dominant.

Anaglyph definition : a stereoscopic motion or still picture in which the right component of a composite image usually red in color is superposed on the left component in a contrasting color to produce a three-dimensional effect when viewed through correspondingly colored filters in the form of spectacles

My advice is watch some true stereoscopic 3D in side by side format. Each eye receives a perfect quality left and right image and when viewed using shutter glasses (or polarised) the results are amazing. The colours are natural, there's only a slight loss in brightness and you feel like you are watching a 2D quality film, only it's in 3D. The polarised 3D in the Cinema is a good example of non-anaglyph 3D.

Gae41

[tm009f0737@blue]

Originally Posted by Tassium

For the upcoming 3D film "Avatar" that is.

CH4 have history, they went ape over the "Night at the Museum 2" film with endless plugs and endless showings of the first film just prior to the sequels release.


The 3D programmes on offer for 3D week are so few and so dire that it looks cheaply cobbled together.

I am half expecting many promotions of Avatar during this, so-called, 3d week across all channel4 programmes.

Half expected a 3D week or night on the back of this film and am looking forward to the add's just as much as i am to the film,pity about the output although they have scored with the queen's coronation in 3D,going to try get some glasses today if i'm lucky,hope so.

Pity CH4 couldn't have shown some more up to date film's as they a hundred's,not sure the more modern 3D film's use the kind CH4 are using though,haven't seen 3D t.v. in years,should be fun.

[slow motion]

There have been a lot of 3D movies recently, so it's a current thing of the moment, not a specific movie, so to me it doesn't come over as a marketing ploy.

Got my glasses from sainsburys, they're not the usual kind, so will take a look at one or two things next week, but no amount of persuasion will get me watching derren brown!

[GARETH197901]

Originally Posted by tm009f0737@blue

Half expected a 3D week or night on the back of this film and am looking forward to the add's just as much as i am to the film,pity about the output although they have scored with the queen's coronation in 3D,going to try get some glasses today if i'm lucky,hope so.

Pity CH4 couldn't have shown some more up to date film's as they a hundred's,not sure the more modern 3D film's use the kind CH4 are using though,haven't seen 3D t.v. in years,should be fun.

The Thing is the films they are showing werent originally in Colorcode as It is a relatively new version of the Anaglyph format,but any film filmed in 3D can be converted over to Colorcode obviously there is a cost involved to doing it

[Lucky_drawes]

It is more likely to put people off if they think colorcode is the best cinema can do. Which it sure isn't.

[Gae41]

It is more likely to put people off if they think colorcode is the best cinema can do. Which it sure isn't.

Totally agreed!!

Who thinks that Channel 4 should put a disclaimer throughout this 3D week? Something along the lines of...

"While quality is of prime importance to us, in no way do we declare that the 3D broadcasts represent the current state of 3D technology, which is far superior"

but any film filmed in 3D can be converted over to Colorcode obviously there is a cost involved to doing it

Perhaps they are just screen capturing a ColorCode outputted version in Stereoscopic Player....hardly any cost at all.

My example...Friday the 13th 3D ColorCode clip

Gae41

[Tassium]

Fair comments on the likelyhood of this being a marketing thing, if it was it would be very misjudged!

I have tested the ColorCode specs on this website:

http://www.colorcode3d.com/gallery/

And the still images look quite good with good colour, but still quite dim.

[tm009f0737@blue]

Originally Posted by Tassium

Fair comments on the likelyhood of this being a marketing thing, if it was it would be very misjudged!

I have tested the ColorCode specs on this website:

http://www.colorcode3d.com/gallery/

And the still images look quite good with good colour, but still quite dim.

Big thank you for link,those quick-time H.D. animated trailers,ie Monsters v Aliens really show how far 3D has come.

And keep my wee nieces and nephews entertained for a wile .

It will be good to V+ CH4 3D in H.D. next week,that will be a first,think the last time i seen 3D on t.v. prommo was the 80's or early 90's,have seen some really bad film's in cinema and a couple of concert's ,u2,rolling stones looking forward to next week,these clip's will on your link are well worth the short download.cheer's

Pic's are great as well.

[Gae41]

Big thank you for link,those quick-time H.D. animated trailers,ie Monsters v Aliens really show how far 3D has come.

If you go to the Cinema and watch the 3D there, it's far superior.

Gae41