If you want a better movie snack smuggling experience, calculate what your snacks would cost at the concession stand and then purchase that dollar value of treats at a grocery store.
Walking in with a couple bags of Dad's ginger snaps and a large pizza is entertaining.
But with 2D vs 3D, basically the brain is already damn good at extrapolating the depth in that scene. And we've all had decades of 2D TV, and 2D photos, and 2D video games, etc, to train at that.
I know quite a few people who have a really hard time playing first person 3D games because they can't extrapolate 3D well from 2D images. I'm quite certain if we did some research, we might find a lot of people who don't enjoy 3D gaming have similar issues. In those cases, true 3D eliminates the decoding problem, because the brain gets the data it wanted (minus focal depth).
Yes and no. Use a BD player like the PS3 with the bitrate showing (hit select) and watch the variable bit rate change dramatically between low and high change levels. Now, with a lower average bitrate codec, all those lower-than-the-bar-you've-set scenes will look exactly the same, but the high bitrate scenes will look worse.
The problem with comparing high and low bitrate compression is finding the scenes that need more bits to look good, and comparing those. If the high action sequence degrades into a blurry macroblocking nightmare, I'm out.
Some 3D polarized displays use a single projector flipping between polarizations, but some (like Sony's) project both images simultaneously, eliminating inter-eye flicker entirely. Using dual projectors also eliminates this problem.
Personally speaking, I noticed the flicker reduction going from 85 to 100Hz CRT displays, and hope movies eventually catch up.
Up in 3D is easily one of the best 3D movies made this decade. It wasn't overdone, it was well rendered, and had very few out of focus near-depth items to distract you with.
Those evil people in Canada. They have local ISPs like Nexicom with truly unlimited bandwidth at up to 6Mbit speeds on DSL, and Cogeco with specific limits on a monthly basis such as 10GB/mo @ 3Mbit or 150GB/mo @ 50Mbit.
And then there's the techies who work in computers for a living and maintain servers 10 hours a day who love going home to a PS3 that "just works" and can't be bothered paying to upgrade their PC regularly enough to keep up with the latest PC games.
Having paid the price of a good video card for my PS3, I've played a lot more hours of games on it than I ever expected and learned to love the console concept.
PS Stop it with generalizations you don't have stats to back.
I enjoy his games but I often wish he worked under another manager who would help direct his work a little more smoothly.
Notably, this is the same Kojima who didn't think HD was that big of a deal for games and didn't see the point in going all super high resolution for MGS4... and didn't.
Consider that MGS4 has load times worthy of watching an entire sitcom episode when other PS3-specific games like R&C or Uncharted have stream loading and almost no delays between levels as a result.
I can ignore the writing and bad jokes and horrible timeline issues as standard low budget Japanese fare (try reading some manga sometime), but the production quality really wasn't there for me, except on sound.
Oh well. He can have his opinions but they're not valuable to me.
Actually, if you watch a video I can't find off the top of my head featuring the drift champion Tanner Faust testing out Gran Turismo 5, you'll hear him commenting on how the new force feedback steering wheel from Logitech in fact models the drift feeling so well that he was able to use his real-world drifting skills to do the same in-game and assures the camera of how authentic it all felt.
With force-feedback steering wheels and a game like Gran Turismo, you're actually getting a lot of the tire feedback that helps you know what the car's doing in a slide and the game does in fact model slide recovery very well (I've done it with professional physics turned on in some of the cars I'm familiar with).
PS even without the wheel, GT5:P does an excellent job of translating road and tire contact through the use of strategic rumble in the controller, although I can't recommend playing a car sim game with a joystick:)
You're not just turning down money, you're also maintaining control.
Many many more businesses have done better or worse for their employees and customers based on management and control at the top than by getting huge influxes of cash.
Think Netscape, AOL, or all the little companies Microsoft and Intel have bought up and quashed over the years.
Taking the money typically means losing control of the business. That's one of the things Google's founders refused to do and a lot of investment columnists and advisors had a hard time with it because its so rare to ask for money without handing over control.
If anything, its irresponsible to run your business focused only on the bottom line. You'll end up doing a lot of really stupid things.
I'm going to assume you're an unintentional troll. Read the story.
Now read it again. Which part of "it was a contest -- and he was the winner" don't you understand? Not every person who gets into Gran Turismo is going to be a race car driver, not even a significant fraction of them. However, the contest proved a point -- that being good at a simulator does in fact help you win real races in a real car.
PS this whole subject is stupid -- of course simulators work. Driving simulators are no different from aircraft or space module simulators, and we trust those for training all the time.
The learning of the track without the vehicle simulation is called a map.
If the skills didn't translate between the two, doing the in-game version wouldn't be useful at all.
Note that professional race car drivers up against the best gamers almost always win in Gran Turismo "shoot-outs" despite not being hard core gamers themselves; their in-car skills translate to in-game as well.
Umm, this has very little or nothing to do with your BD player unless you watch BD movies on your PC or laptop.
Also, the PS3 since it came out has played every BD format thrown at it, and still does. If you bought one of those, there's no requirement to have bought anything else yet.
To be fair, specific frequencies at specific energies do have differing effects.
There's a reason you don't put your head in the microwave oven.
Notably, we've never ruled out the possibility of sensitivity to specific frequencies scientifically.
Sure, the general population seems unaware of them, but that doesn't really preclude that some people could in fact be sensitive to some, and the easy option would be to actually test it.
Demands don't bug me. I'm proud to say we rarely cave in to this type of pressure. We still don't have the DMCA like laws the Americans want us to have, and I hope we don't go this route either.
While you're up in arms about it though, go write to the people in charge like I did and get your voice on file. It matters.
It may not be as eloquent as some people, but every thought counts I figure.
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If you want a better movie snack smuggling experience, calculate what your snacks would cost at the concession stand and then purchase that dollar value of treats at a grocery store.
Walking in with a couple bags of Dad's ginger snaps and a large pizza is entertaining.
If your 3D movies aren't in 4D they're photos.
I know quite a few people who have a really hard time playing first person 3D games because they can't extrapolate 3D well from 2D images. I'm quite certain if we did some research, we might find a lot of people who don't enjoy 3D gaming have similar issues. In those cases, true 3D eliminates the decoding problem, because the brain gets the data it wanted (minus focal depth).
Yes and no. Use a BD player like the PS3 with the bitrate showing (hit select) and watch the variable bit rate change dramatically between low and high change levels. Now, with a lower average bitrate codec, all those lower-than-the-bar-you've-set scenes will look exactly the same, but the high bitrate scenes will look worse.
The problem with comparing high and low bitrate compression is finding the scenes that need more bits to look good, and comparing those. If the high action sequence degrades into a blurry macroblocking nightmare, I'm out.
Some 3D polarized displays use a single projector flipping between polarizations, but some (like Sony's) project both images simultaneously, eliminating inter-eye flicker entirely. Using dual projectors also eliminates this problem.
Personally speaking, I noticed the flicker reduction going from 85 to 100Hz CRT displays, and hope movies eventually catch up.
Up in 3D is easily one of the best 3D movies made this decade. It wasn't overdone, it was well rendered, and had very few out of focus near-depth items to distract you with.
Please read the summary of the article again.
I can't imagine any theatre investing in 3D shutter glasses. All the projection I know about uses dual polarized lenses which are completely passive.
I'd much rather have the polarized passive lenses than shutter glasses anyway (although the latter are what's being sold for home 3D).
You need a visit to the optometrist.
The should have been almost completely unaffected by the colour-neutral glasses you were given.
The only difference would've been seeing two images overlaid on each other (making it brighter) instead of one in each eye.
Those evil people in Canada. They have local ISPs like Nexicom with truly unlimited bandwidth at up to 6Mbit speeds on DSL, and Cogeco with specific limits on a monthly basis such as 10GB/mo @ 3Mbit or 150GB/mo @ 50Mbit.
Silly commies.
And then there's the techies who work in computers for a living and maintain servers 10 hours a day who love going home to a PS3 that "just works" and can't be bothered paying to upgrade their PC regularly enough to keep up with the latest PC games.
Having paid the price of a good video card for my PS3, I've played a lot more hours of games on it than I ever expected and learned to love the console concept.
PS Stop it with generalizations you don't have stats to back.
Isn't that what the failed XBOX project was?
The thing Microsoft dropped like a hot potato after trying to prove to the world that a PC-platform based machine would make a better console?
Interesting how their much more successful 360 doesn't use a PC platform at all anymore.
I enjoy his games but I often wish he worked under another manager who would help direct his work a little more smoothly.
Notably, this is the same Kojima who didn't think HD was that big of a deal for games and didn't see the point in going all super high resolution for MGS4 ... and didn't.
Consider that MGS4 has load times worthy of watching an entire sitcom episode when other PS3-specific games like R&C or Uncharted have stream loading and almost no delays between levels as a result.
I can ignore the writing and bad jokes and horrible timeline issues as standard low budget Japanese fare (try reading some manga sometime), but the production quality really wasn't there for me, except on sound.
Oh well. He can have his opinions but they're not valuable to me.
Actually, if you watch a video I can't find off the top of my head featuring the drift champion Tanner Faust testing out Gran Turismo 5, you'll hear him commenting on how the new force feedback steering wheel from Logitech in fact models the drift feeling so well that he was able to use his real-world drifting skills to do the same in-game and assures the camera of how authentic it all felt.
With force-feedback steering wheels and a game like Gran Turismo, you're actually getting a lot of the tire feedback that helps you know what the car's doing in a slide and the game does in fact model slide recovery very well (I've done it with professional physics turned on in some of the cars I'm familiar with).
PS even without the wheel, GT5:P does an excellent job of translating road and tire contact through the use of strategic rumble in the controller, although I can't recommend playing a car sim game with a joystick :)
I've heard this comment before and its moronic.
You're not just turning down money, you're also maintaining control.
Many many more businesses have done better or worse for their employees and customers based on management and control at the top than by getting huge influxes of cash.
Think Netscape, AOL, or all the little companies Microsoft and Intel have bought up and quashed over the years.
Taking the money typically means losing control of the business. That's one of the things Google's founders refused to do and a lot of investment columnists and advisors had a hard time with it because its so rare to ask for money without handing over control.
If anything, its irresponsible to run your business focused only on the bottom line. You'll end up doing a lot of really stupid things.
And the people who legitimately use it to connect with or compare notes with friends are also losers?
Not to mention Foursquare has options to not share your updates publicly (like mine) so that only your pre-added friends see where you've been or are.
I'm going to assume you're an unintentional troll. Read the story.
Now read it again. Which part of "it was a contest -- and he was the winner" don't you understand? Not every person who gets into Gran Turismo is going to be a race car driver, not even a significant fraction of them. However, the contest proved a point -- that being good at a simulator does in fact help you win real races in a real car.
PS this whole subject is stupid -- of course simulators work. Driving simulators are no different from aircraft or space module simulators, and we trust those for training all the time.
I can't play a serious driving game in third person. Burnout Paradise on the other hand is all about watching your car get wrecked :)
Actually, they're the same thing.
The learning of the track without the vehicle simulation is called a map.
If the skills didn't translate between the two, doing the in-game version wouldn't be useful at all.
Note that professional race car drivers up against the best gamers almost always win in Gran Turismo "shoot-outs" despite not being hard core gamers themselves; their in-car skills translate to in-game as well.
I'm sorry but you do realize that by "online stuff" people mean "playing games", right?
For example, my copies of Warhawk, SOCOM and MAG all very much appreciate being online.
PS my PS3, an original fat 60GB model (now a 320GB model not that its relevant) went through the update fine.
Umm, this has very little or nothing to do with your BD player unless you watch BD movies on your PC or laptop.
Also, the PS3 since it came out has played every BD format thrown at it, and still does. If you bought one of those, there's no requirement to have bought anything else yet.
The above is indeed safe for work, FYI.
And we have very little actual good research data on the subject.
There was a day when we told women to put their face in a uranium shield to remove facial hair.
There was a day we didn't shield people from xrays.
What scares me is the pseudo-science of thinking we know things that we haven't done a really good job of researching yet.
To be fair, specific frequencies at specific energies do have differing effects.
There's a reason you don't put your head in the microwave oven.
Notably, we've never ruled out the possibility of sensitivity to specific frequencies scientifically.
Sure, the general population seems unaware of them, but that doesn't really preclude that some people could in fact be sensitive to some, and the easy option would be to actually test it.
Just curious, have you ever actually had your water fluoride levels checked by an independent lab?
A lot of people who do find that its substantially higher than advertised.
There's a reason for those complaints.
Demands don't bug me. I'm proud to say we rarely cave in to this type of pressure. We still don't have the DMCA like laws the Americans want us to have, and I hope we don't go this route either.
While you're up in arms about it though, go write to the people in charge like I did and get your voice on file. It matters.
It may not be as eloquent as some people, but every thought counts I figure.