3D DVD?
The DVD Forum is planning to study the possibility of incorporating 3D technology into the DVD format specifications. In other words, they want to figure out if DVDs can be made to somehow capitalize on the current 3D craze.
Isn't that interesting? More Americans avoid going to theaters since they have superb home theater systems. So movie studios and theaters combat that trend by offering 3D movies. The idea was to draw people out of their home theaters to the movie theaters once again. I wonder what would happen if 3D DVDs suddenly became common?
Isn't that interesting? More Americans avoid going to theaters since they have superb home theater systems. So movie studios and theaters combat that trend by offering 3D movies. The idea was to draw people out of their home theaters to the movie theaters once again. I wonder what would happen if 3D DVDs suddenly became common?
posted by Scott Eash at 10:14 AM
5 Comments:
Very interesting idea! The technology for 3D on your home TV is already available, for 3D games and the like. I don't think anyone has figured out how to put the programming data for 2D - 3D on a DVD.
Could lead to some interesting technology!
I believe I have heard of some 3D DVDs that were already released, but's it's obviously not common yet.
Would you be willing to pay an extra $5-$10 per DVD so you could watch it at home instead of the theater?
What do you mean by 3D? 3D movies have been in existence since the days of black and white, and have been available since home video was created...
To clarify, we're not referring to CGI animation or stop-motion animation (both are sometimes referred to as '3D'). We are talking about that cool effect which makes characters and objects appear to pop out of the screen.
Movie Maker, can you please give us some examples of 3D DVDs (or videos) already in existence? I don't deny that some could exist, but this article was just pointing out that they are possibly going to make 3D part of the standard DVD specs.
Spy 'Kids 3D' or 'Shark Boy and Lava Girl' are semi-resent 3D movies released in 3D on DVD.
I find it interesting that they don't seem to specify what they mean by 3D.
I wonder if they mean a 3D writing and reading surface. DVDs today are, really, 2d, with at most to horizontal layers for storing information. I have heard talk of 3D DVDs before, where you would have "3D" DVDs, with layers on not only the horizontal axes but the vatical axes as well. Thus allowing for massive storage capacity, if I recall correctly...
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