2D movies in 3D?
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An Australian company says it’s developed a 3D conversion solution able to play conventional DVD discs in 3D on ‘glasses free’ 3D displays.
DDD Group plc says its new TriDef DVD Player allows any Hollywood movie to be viewed in 3D without requiring special pre-formatting of the DVD disc.
"From today, the TriDef DVD Player will be offered to licensees of DDD’s TriDef software products and it marks an important milestone in the future development of consumer markets for 3D displays by enabling real time conversion to 3D," it says in a press statement, going on:
"The TriDef DVD Player draws on the advanced image analysis technologies developed for DDD’s offline 3D media conversion service.
"The real time conversion feature delivers immediate access to 3D DVD blockbuster movies for owners of 3D display and complements DDD’s high quality offline conversion process by delivering an easy to view 3D effect that is based on the The layer ican also play original 3D movies including the library of 3D feature length movies that were recently licensed from nWave Pictures, says DDD. This combination is designed to offer the widest possible choice to 3D display owners."
May 26th, 2004 at 5:06 pm
“an easy to view 3D effect that is based on the The layer ican also play original 3D movies including…”
Based on what?
August 16th, 2004 at 12:02 pm
Yes, it’s the same old story all over again.
2-D to 3-D real-time conversion, no special equipment needed! Wow, forget about using those bulky, expensive 3-D cameras and those stupid looking, annoying 3-D glasses. The future has arrived… not.
Anybody working in the 3-D field knows the trick; and I’m not talking about the smooth sales talk selling age-old technology in a new shiny box. Sorry to burst this bubble guys.
In a nutshell, 2-D to 3-D conversion works like this: for 3-D you need two different camera positions - the left eye image being a bit to the left of the right eye image. If a camera is moving from right to left, frame 2 will be slightly to the left of frame 1, so you can send frame 2 to the left eye and frame 1 to the right eye. Great, so that’s your 2-D to 3-D conversion.
However, things go pear-shaped when there is vertical camera movement; your left eye will see an image that is higher or lower than your right eye. Ouch! That hurts - forget about painful 3-D cinema experiences; this is really like pulling your eyes out of their sockets with a hoover.
And, of course, the sad disappointment of no 3-D at all when there is no camera movement. Remeber - this 2-D to t3-D business only works when there is horizontal camera movement.
Am I putting this company out of business? Hey, they can always adopt a new name like ‘DDDD-The Fourth Dimension Inc.’ and promote this age-old system all over again.
But then do I offer alternatives? Well, this is not the place for such a lengthy story, but you can always check out my website.
I was just trying to give consumers all fairness of the truth.
I’ll sign off with my real name as well,
Alexander Lentjes
sledgeham.com