Posts Tagged ‘2D’

“It all depends on how you do it” says legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Armageddon, G-Force, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bad Boys, Black Hawk Down and basically the list goes on and on) when talking about 3D movies in a recent interview. In the interview with IGN, Bruckheimer gave his opinion on 3D movies and talks about Hollywood’s latest 3D releases. He said that, “3D adds another dimension which puts you inside the movie, which I love. But it’s always about the story telling”. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Brothers Pictures recently revealed that ‘Contagion’ will be released in stereoscopic 3D on October 21st, 2011.
The movies screenplay was written by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum) and will be directed by Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Che: Part 1 & 2).
Contagion will star Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Gwyneth Paltrow and will be shot in native 3D.
All that is known about Contagion’s storyline so far is that the movie is an action-thriller and will focus on the threat posed by a deady disease and an international team of doctors dealing with the deadly outbreak.
‘CLEO’ is another Soderbergh 3D movie that is also lined-up for a 2011 release date.

One of Japans biggest selling movies of all time is currently being prepared to undergo the 2D to 3D conversion process. Kinji Fukasaku’s cult movie ‘Battle Royale’ will be converted from 2D to 3D by the Japanse studio ‘Toei’.
Battle Royale (released in 2000) grossed around $26 million in Japan and was sold and distributed to over 35 countries worldwide. The 3D version of Battle Royale will be released for market screenings this October and will be released in movie theaters across Japan on November 20th, 2010.
The movies director Kinji Fukasaku unfortunately passed away in 2003. His son, Kenta Fukasaku will be supervising the 2D to 3D conversion of his fathers popular movie in Tokyo, through the production company ‘Fukasaku-Gumi’.

3DGUY exclusive!! Marvel is planning to give Nick Fury’s secret organization ‘S.H.I.E.L.D’ a feature length 3D movie. Just this week Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige, announced that “the (Marvel) team has been doing a lot of research into 3D processes and we’re looking at it on future films when we have the time. We will be doing it at some point.”
Samuel L Jackson recently spilled the metaphorical beans on this movie project in a recent interview with Radio Big Boy.
The actor, the man, the legend, Mr Samuel L. Jackson, revealed some interesting information regarding Marvel’s plans for the future when discussing his 9 movie deal with Marvel and confirming that he will not be in ‘Thor’. Sammy L Jackson said, “The Avengers should start shooting sometime next year and then some time after that there’ll be a big S.H.I.E.L.D. movie.”

Okay, so we may be jumping to conclusions and putting 1.5 and 1.5 together to make 3D, but a 3D S.H.I.E.L.D movie is certainly a big possibility in the next few years.
In Marvel comics, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a fictional spy and enforcement agency tasked with handing super human problems. Nick Fury runs the agency from a floating hover carrier. Nick Fury appears in many other comics, but ‘Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D’ was also a solo series. The character was even portrayed by David Hasselhoff back in 1998.

Avatar director and 3D expert James Cameron recently revealed his latest three dimensional plans. The 3D enthusiast announced in a recent interview that when he finishes adding another dimension to his 1997 film Titanic, he plans to re-release Aliens and Terminator in stereoscopic 3D. The 3D conversion of Titanic, which Cameron is calling ‘2.8D’, is expected to be released in 2012 to mark the 100^th anniversary of the ships maiden and final voyage.

Hirotoshi Uehara, Panasonics head of TV business, recently announced that Panasonic’s factory is operating at ‘full capacity’ and to fulfill the consumers demands for 3D technology, 3D panel production has been increased by 30%. With only Panasonic and Samsung displays available on the consumer market at this moment in time, its no wonder both companys 3D TV technologies are selling out rapidly. Panasonic’s 50-inch 3D TC-P50VT20 began selling out in stores across the United States within a week of being released. According to Hirotoshi, the Panasonic factory is “working at full capacity but we’ve increased 3D panel production by 30 per cent compared to our original plan.” Read the rest of this entry »

Sony has been demonstrating two professional LCD 3D monitors this week at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. The two 3D monitors on display are the 24” LMD-2451TD and the 42” LMD-4251TD, both of which are expected to be available on the consumer market in September 2010. The two displays use ChromaTRU color matching technology and offer users a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080p as well as an optional dual stream HD-SDI interface. The technology also utilizes an LCD with an IPS panel and offers users an impressive wide viewing angle. Both monitors are 2D and 3D capable and support signals including the following formats; 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 1080/24PsF, and 1080/23.98PsF Read the rest of this entry »

DXG USA this week announced its new line of upcoming digital camcorders, one of which will offer consumers the ability to shoot and view their own stereoscopic 3D content. The DXG 3DViewPocket (also known as model number DXG-321) will be available on the consumer market this summer. The 3D camera will be sold in a $600 recommended retail package by DXG, within which a 7-inch LCD glasses-free 3D view screen will be included. The included LCD display will enable consumers to view their captured 3D content with the naked eye. Consumers will also be able to view their 3D content using active shutter and polarized glasses technology on numerous makes of HD 3D TV’s being released in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Dolby recently announced its new open specification for 3D broadcast delivery. The specification details how 3D content can be encoded and carried using frame-compatible techniques over a regular 2D broadcast infrastructure. The Dolby specification announced is fully compatible with enhancement layer approaches, which enables extensibility to full resolution 3D in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

At this year’s NAB show which opens its doors to the world this weekend in Las Vegas, Panasonic, DirecTV and Harmonic Inc will offer attendees 3D TV broadcast demonstrations. The demonstrations will be given using Harmonic Electra encoders, DirecTV and the recently released (but now sold out) Panasonic VIERA Full HD 3D TV’s. The Electra encoders are capable of supporting frame-compatible 3D video and acting as a compression engine for the DirecTV 3D experience. The NAB show will run from April 12^th-15^th in Las Vegas and will have a strong emphasis on 3D technology just like January’s CES show. The 3D demonstration will be viewable at Harmonic’s booth #SU7213 in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Read the rest of this entry »