Re: ABC 3D - I liked it!!!

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 
>From: P3D  Dr. George A. Themelis  writes:
>
>I don't know what you guys are talking about... What exactly
>were you expecting?  I was not expecting anything and was
>very pleased with what I saw last night... My TV reception
>is bad and my glasses were dirty with fingerprints (I gave
>the good ones to my children).

*******  Last night's show, especially *America's Funniest Home Videos* was
marginally good. That show always has dumb scripts, so it wasn't out of
place. As far as time in 3D, it was the longest single period of 3D effects
that I was able to catch during the week. Yes the 3D was impresive. Tennis
balls, keys, and bubbles were flying around the middle of the living room.
But, how can you seriously make a show about throwing things through your TV
set from the inside? And how can you expect a 3D experience from just a few
seconds of time, which is what most of the other segments were?

I'm not sure what I *expected* since along with many others I had a healthy
skepticism, but *based on their ads*, the entire week's *specially
advertised shows* should have been 100% 3D. If I believed they were actually
going to do something decent, I would have expected a minimum of a MUCH
higher percent of time in 3D and a FAR better blending of material so it fit
smoothly with the programs. As consumers we need to take their advertising
skeptically at face value and call them on it when shortchanged. Because
very few do that, we've come to expect to be ripped of by networks and their
advertising, and worse yet, they expect us to actually enjoy it.

>.............
>Only thing I would have liked to see different is to have 
>longer 3d segments.  There was not enough time for the eyes 
>to get used and enjoy.  Don't have the entire episode in 3d 
>so that one can appreciate the difference.  Let's say half 3d, 
>half 2d.

*****  I definitely prefer the whole of a show in 3D, where possible. Your
*sort of* gratification came only from the single longest usage of 3D for
the entire week. Since the other segments were both extremely absurd, and
staccato short, there was only time to get frustrated and feel ripped off.

>
>The funny thing is that I kept my glasses on to watch other
>shows, even not 3d.  I felt that the glasses made the TV frame
>appear as a window with the (2D) scene going on behind it,
>and I liked it.  It might be phycological too.  

*****  Yes I noticed that, except for me the actors appeared in front of the
background within that window.

>For me, who
>do not wear glasses, putting those glasses on was something
>special.  "Show Time".  Whenever I put glasses (like safety
>glasses at work) I feel like an observer of some sorts...
>part of some kind of audience... Anyone has the same feeling?
>
>-- George Themelis
>

****  Most of this weeks stuff was too short to get to that feeling, but
yeah, I know what you mean.

Larry Berlin

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