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The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam
An anonymous reader writes "There's a lot of things wrong with 3D movies. Avatar's 3D was well executed, but Alice's 3D was really bad, like all 2D-to-3D conversions. And yet, studios are reconverting 2D movies—including classics—into 3D to milk this fad. On top of that, the theaters are not prepared for 3D, with bad eyeglass optics and dark projections. In this article, a top CG supervisor in a prominent visual effects studio in Los Angeles calls it as it is: it's all a big scam by the movie studios."
How? The GP was making a dumb argument. One can make an argument using his logic that any technical improvement to filmmaking has no effect on making a bad script/actor/director better and they have little to nothing to do with storytelling as storytelling was perfectly possible without sound, color, wider aspect ratios, larger screens and higher frame rates. So by this logic we should revert back to the silent films as anything added after that point is just superfluous.
This is the same stupid logic like when people used to try to tell everyone that VHS was good enough and no one needed DVD. Now they all use the exact same argument for why it's dumb to upgrade to Blu-Ray because now they claim that DVD is good enough.
It may be cool to you, but to me it's a bunch of bullshit/garbage/waste of cash and time. Nvidia is the only one trying to sell it, and is the same one who pushed the higher refresh rate garbage in TV's prior to that.
You're essentially guaranteeing yourself half the performance due to requiring twice the draw (not just refresh) rate.
Real holographic 3d? Count me in. This is coming (it's in use in the medical field among others). Polarized, red and blue, anything like that? No thank you.
actually, I did. the 3d didn't mean shit to me, and yes I can see it (no physical limitations there for me).