Jerry, or someone in the know; will the Avatar 3d tech be available for home theater?

Just wondering if the technology used to project the image in 3d and the polarizing glasses will be, or already are, available for home theater.

Is the image being projected on the screen being generated from multiple projectors, or just one? If one, could a standard BluRay player and a 1080p LCD projector reproduce it in the home theater setting with the special glasses?

 

From my sources, no. Unless you install industry level ($100k) equipment.

 

My sources disagree with J.R. on this one.

Within 5 years we will see home versions appear and it will be led by the desire to watch sports in 3D and play video games in 3D.

http://www.tech-evangelist.com/2009/01/12/2009-consumer-electronics-show/

 

Aren't they broadcasting the world cup in 3D in some countries?

 

I thought he was asking about right now. Five years, I agree completely.

 

Sports huh? I suspect there will be other drivers of the technology.

 

Blu-ray 3D specifications already....

www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3924

Will be seeing it next week in Vegas if i go to the LVCC.

PS: Smellavision was horrible a few years back.

 

Im not a sports guy. Dont pay any attention to it, but thats what I hear.

As far as video games...absolutely yes.

I think you are hinting at porn ? Problem there is the porn biz has been in a serious recession for a long time because of free internet porn and very few have the cash to push through *good* 3D or are willing to spend the money.

Porn is usually the first to embrace these types of technologies but in this case I see them following behind sports and games.

 

F1 in 3D might be cool.

 

Surprised folks on this board are behind the curve on this one... yes, the technology is already here. Yes, it's going to get better/cheaper/easier, but it is here today if you want it.

At this point, most examples require some special tech, like LCD shutter glasses, which are a bit bulkier than the polarized type you saw the movie with, but gives a pretty much identical experience.

I got the Avatar game for the PS3 for Christmas (it's pretty good) and in the options menu is a setting to change it to 3D.

Samsung just showed a 55" 3D 240Hz LCD in October, and most of the other manufacturers are already in production. They'll be all over the place at this year's CES.

Me... I'm holding out for a dual projector setup to upgrade my 120" screen setup.

Yay technology! I'm glad there are people out there who are much better at math than I am to engineer the spectacular products that make life a little more interesting each year.

Here's to living life large, and in 3 dimensions!

-Tad

 

As far as I know, this can also be accomplished using Real D 3D glasses such as the ones given at a movie theater in combination with a BluRay High Definition player. Regular DVD doesn't have high enough resolution to produce real 3D (As opposed to the red and blue 3d, which is 30x30 instead of 60x60).


Jeremy

 

I too use a projector.. 100 inches of HD for a fraction of the cost

 

Thanks guys. I know that there are '3D' options available (and have been for some time) but I guess what I was wondering is if the EXACT new 'Real 3D' technology that James Cameron developed for Avatar is going to be available for in-home use. Personally I'm not averse to spending 20-50K to get it. 100K? That’s pushing it.

 

The problem right now is at this point in the 3D tech development you are going to be seeing constant changes and improvements which would make your expensive home theater set up obsolete very quickly.

 

And that would be different from the past 12 years going from hundreds of Laserdiscs, to thousands of DVDs to now hundreds of BluRays, how? Not to mention the 4 times I've changed receivers, projectors, players, and 2 (soon to be three) speaker systems? It's always and will continue to be a money pit to stay on the cutting edge.

Good thing I like OLDER cars!

 

Well, from my experience my first LD was 1992-1998 when I got a DVD player. DVD player is thus from 1998 to present with the only replacements being for broken machines. I will not get a blu-ray for at least a year or so, most likely only go blue ray if they just stop producing things on DVD because of Steve Jobs' prediction. So I would say the avg (so far) life span of a medium for me has been about 7 years.

 

lol good point !

 

I switched to a fast network and large hard disk arrays for music and video years ago. Initial cost was high but still cheaper than accumulating the media at the time, and it really hasn't cost that much to keep up as the price of storage keeps falling. Get a media server and fast network...only upgrade after that will be to the cloud.

 

Here's avatar...as you have never seen it.

http://random-domain.com/browse.php?comicID=41

 

Thats cute. I like it

 

Toyota F1 & ESPN 3D, worthy of a "fail" stamp?

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=139250643&postcount=22

 

Having just returned from CES, I can wholeheartedly confirm this! You couldn't take
a piss or get a soda without seeing 3D signs from Mitsubishi, LG, Samsung, Sony and
a host of others.

And trying to actually TRY the 3d? Hahahahaha! It took me 30 minutes just to PASS
BY the LG 3D area at the show yesterday.... IT WAS INSANE. I haven't seen this much
buzz at a CES show (isn't that redundant, by the way?) since the iPhone.

3D is the new "Talkies" and "Color Movies" - 10 years from now, we'll all have
relegated our old 2D TV sets to the guest room and vacation cabin.

Jedi

 

3D using LCD shutter glasses was becoming common a few years ago on higher end computer video cards. As it got cheap enough for consumers, it died because of the market switch to LCD from CRT monitors. CRT monitors had a high enough refresh rate (say 120Hz) to show separate frames for each eye (60 hz each)- coordinated with the eye blanking from the glasses. LCDs are hard to refresh at this rate so this relatively easy technology became impossible to do on them. Since then technologies have been trying to overcome this limitation.

 

I'm sure the technology is out there (and will get cheaper with time) but I just don't see it being adopted by the masses for quite some time. Most people are still making payments on high end 2D LCD's and plasmas and won't want to shell out even bigger money for new 3D sets. Also, consider the fact that less than 25% of folks that own LCD's and plasmas purchase HD programming packages. You just know that ESPN 3D HD will not be free and might not even be part of the "regular" HD channel line up for quite some time. Plus, I'm betting we're going to be in the start of a 3D HD format war and will need to see which format is chosen by the movie studios.

 

I'm perfectly happy with my 42" Phillips 1080p LCD that I've had for 2 years right now... and intend on keeping it around for several more years.

Personally... I refuse to bother with 3D until I can see it clearly without putting on those stupid glasses.