3-D Blu-rays
 

So, Disney has announced a 2-D/3-D release for their upcoming Hannah Montana concert Blu-ray.

Has anybody else seen any 3-D released on Blu-ray? As a long-time 3-D fan, I'm very excited about this possible trend. Could a 3-D Nightmare Before Christmas be that far off?

How would it work?? They can't do the old red blue glasses thing...right? This could be really cool but I wonder how it would work

Rumor is it's the old red/blue glasses.

The simplest way for now is an anaglyph conversion (red/cyan).

They could easily do a much better 3-D version using field/frame sequential formats (shutter glasses), which in it's rawest form, has been available for years to those with a $25 3-D driver box and glasses. This technology is now being rapidly improved upon though, and Samsung and Mitsubishi already have several DLP sets with 3-D capability built in. Blu-ray players with this 3-D equipment "in the box" aren't far off, either.

In short, anaglyph now, good quality, even HD 3-D soon.

As far as the "old" red/blue glasses.....you guys know that even in the 1950's the 3-D movies used the clear, polarized glasses in theatres, right? The colored anaglyph type have very rarely been used for movies, but usually for comic books and some 3-D TV broadcasts. If you've seen one of the old movies in the red/blue format, you should know that's not the original way they were shown, and you've seen an inferior downconversion. Out of all the 3-D features released to theatres, only a tiny handful used the awful anaglyph format, and most of those were the recent kiddie flicks. The myth/idea that "old" 3-D movies used red/blue format just *will not* die, and is continually repeated by ignorant reporters to this day, so who can blame people for believing that, but it isn't true. All 50 of the 3-D movies released in 1952-54 used the clear polarized glasses format and so have 99% of 3-D feaures since that time. The only thing "new" about the 3-D that Real D does is that is digitally projected, which allows greater clarity and control over the presentation.

I think Disney should NOT do an anaglyph version of "Hanna". They should release it flat on disc now and wait until they can market a quality 3-D version at home in a year or so. Anaglyph just confuses people and makes them think that that's what they'll get when they go to a theater to see 3-D.

The idea for the HD 3-D Blu-rays is that the disc will play in 2-D for those without the equipment, but with a 3-D option for those that do.

What's the deal with that "3-D Ready" advertised on Samsung TVs anyways? Is it something that's actually coming out soon, and will it not work with other TVs?

Unless it uses the clear polarized glasses they used in the theaters, I'm just as content to fork out $$$ for a movie ticket every Halloween...