Re: ABC and 3D TV

[P3D Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I thought some of you might be interested in checking out anaglyphs of
> ABC's new fall lineup at "http://abctv.com/cybercity/cc1.html" There are 8
> separate 3-D images (not including the intro screen), one for each new
> show. Unfortunately I couldn't convince ABC to let me shoot original stereo
> photos, so I had to convert existing 2-D shots. I'd love to get some
> feedback from the photo-3d people.
> 
The conversions are excellent, although I'm frankly unimpressed with just about
any color-photo anaglyph I've ever seen. Oh, well, it's a color-only world these
days, I guess. Anyway, the whole section is very well done and worth a visit by
everyone in Photo-3D! I only wish it signalled a serious interest by ABC in 3D
television.

By the way, if anyone is interested in 3D television, there's a good article on
the history in the new 3D News, the newsletter of the Stereo Club of Southern
California, including a reprint of an article from a 1953 issue of Photography
Magazine describing an alternate-field (actually alternate-frame) television
system in development at that time. The images could be broadcast to a normal TV
set and the viewers were synchronized by a 60-cycle wall plug. I'll send a copy
to anyone who E-mails me their snail-mail address.


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