More on coming of 3D on TV...

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 8:21:01 -0500
>From: P3D  Shelley, Dan  writes:
>
>>From another list I get mail from:
>
>"ABC will add several minutes of 3-D effects to 6-10 of their sitcoms 
>such as DREW CAREY and SABRINA during the sweeps week of May 5th - 
>11th. ...............
>...................................
>Had a small e-mail discussion with them about why they choose to 
>reverse their anaglyphs, and their response was basically that about 2 
>out of every 10 people have problems with anaglpyhs made the way I and 
>most others make them, and by simply reversing the lenses, they were 
>able to eliminate the problem. (Hummm??? I still think they are trying 
>to make it a proprietary thing...)

*********  I think they are crazy. I regularly try things like using the
colors reversed and find that I don't like the reversed colors but it works.
If anyone has problems with anaglyphic images they will likely have problems
with it done either way. Reversing the colors for a TV special is a way to
automatically alienate the other 80% of the audience who are used to using
the glasses the other way around. This is sure to generate complaints and
maybe that is their hidden purpose, artificially generate and encourage
responses of any kind.

No wonder TV has problems figuring out how to use 3D....

Larry Berlin

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