3D losing ESPN

In the consumer electronics market, 3D TV is being seen as a bust.

Whether it sticks around, or even advances for commercial film releases, will remain to be seen.

We'll see.

Hunt

We have 1 3D channel in the UK, very limited content, some like football (the proper football not the American one with the odd shaped ball) is pretty dire to watch.

So far the animation The Legend of the Guardian (or something like it) is the best, far far better effects than Avatar

very limited content, some like football (the proper football not the American one with the odd shaped ball)

My experiences with 3D go way, way back, and after one has experienced the visual "hooks" one time, they sort of become boring. I cannot recall a theater film that I have recently seen in 3D, so the whole process has probably gotten much better. I have watched some 3D TV, and it was OK, but not good enough to convince me to invest in the technology. I probably need to get into the theater more often.

I mean, after one has seen The Stewardesses in 3D, what more is there... ? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168192/

Hunt

(the proper football not the American one with the odd shaped ball)

Ooooh, you mean soccer.

I found the 3D in Guardian pretty well done, but a relative says Avatar beats it by far.  I'll have to give that a viewing tomorrow, see for myself.

No Jim I mean football, after all we used the name first

Hope you enjoy comparing The Guardian with Avatar

Hope you enjoy comparing The Guardian with Avatar

Not as much as we will be enjoying Silverstone in two weeks!

Silverstone...................acres of mud...............the queues to get in.....................the overinflated prices (Adobe must have learned pricing from Bernie Ecclestone) .......the queues to get out.................the smell of burning rubber.....................the burgers that have been on the grill since last years race..............................the £100/$150 Ferrari Tee Shirt..................the fact that if you stand in a certain location you can only see 100 yards of the track and have no large screen.....................the Red Arrows (best in the world)...............the cars going through Becketts...............Hamiliton or Button or Di Resta or Chilton winning (well we can dream).............................. but most of all seeing Suzi Perry the lead presenter on the BBC

On second thoughts this year I think that I will stay at home and watch it on the TV

On second thoughts this year I think that I will stay at home and watch it on the TV

In 3D!

That might be interesting...

The only 3D we get in the UK is Sky sattelite, so it will probably be shown in 3D with it being our own F1 race

Alas that means there would be no Suzi.....................................but I could watch her during the build up and switch to 3D for the race.

Just in case you guys do not know who I am talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_fAgYbqVOk

She is also a biker chick and used to present our Moto GP programmes

Just in case you guys do not know who I am talking about

Seems a perfect candidate for 3DTV.

I have not seen Suzi, and I always watch Sky News, when in London - is she perhaps on another of the Sky networks?

Hunt

Bill

She is now on the BBC specifically on Sports

http://suziperry.com/

Will be there in October, and WILL spend some time looking for (or maybe AT) her. IIRC, our hotel has about 8 BBC channels, then several SKY and one Bloomberg. There are dozens of others, but they are mostly "foreign language" channels, and run the gamut from a dozen Asian, a dozen African and every Middle Eastern language imaginable. Recently, they added several Eastern European language channels, but I cannot tell Russian from Romanian.

Thanks for the H/U. Should enhance my viewing pleasure. I can just imagine my wife's comments, "Since when did you become interested in cricket?" "Hush dear, he just pitched a googley... "

Hunt

Hope you enjoy comparing The Guardian with Avatar

I did get that chance yesterday.

I've seen three full moves in 3D so far and lengthy clips from four others.  By far the best looking 3D is Avatar.  It is the most 'realistic', coming across not as an effect, but simply as genuine depth of field you'd see with your eyes if you were actually there.  It even beat out The Hobbit and Iron Man 3 which I saw in theaters.

True, but you'd think newer movies would be using and refining his process/equipment.

I'm not sure that's the case, though.

Did somebody mention F1?

You got F1 radar or something?

I thought they mentioned F1 in 3D at Mitchell's big party?

Hunt