P3D Re: Comin At Ya in 3D on DVD

[Greg Kintz <gkintz@xxxxxxxx>]

> Greg,
>
> Good and bad news. Good that they are releasing a movie in
> 3-D on DVD but bad that it's anaglyph. Maybe I will be
> proved wrong but, field sequential is the only good 3-D I have
> seen on video. It's also bad that they picked such an awful
> movie for the first 3-D DVD release.
>
> Roland Lataille

I agree, field-sequential *is* the superior format. On a small
plus side, the limited exposure I've had with anaglyph on DVD
so far shows that DVD handles anaglyph better than VHS has.
I'm looking forward to seeing or hearing on how well "Comin
At Ya" does on DVD for a few reasons: Besides being an awful
movie missing a few small key ingrediants (like plot, charicter
development, ..etc) ..it also has some awful eyestraining 3-D
shots, with objects often placed far out of the stereo window
or improper shot compsitions. The Atomic Bomb 3-D DVD
short I had watched did not tax the anaglyph video format, but
this one will. Another good test, one that I'm expecting "Comin
At Ya!" to fail to at least some degree, ..is the full color anaglyph
3-D format. Far too often, color conflict occurs with the color
anaglyph format, so we'll see if D3's new encoder does a better
job in at least minimizing these conflicts.
             ...If D3's anaglyph encoder does a halfway decent
job, maybe a duel layer DVD format could be used with 3-D
movies and offer both versions: Provide an anglyph version on
one layer (or side) for the masses who might balk at paying
$100 or more for viewing equipment, just to watch their 3-D
DVD in the (superior) field-sequential format. But still also
provide the field-sequential version for consumers who think
it's worth the price in viewing equipment to watch the best 3-D
presentation possible with out television format. Many DVDs
already offer a letterboxed version of a film on one side, and a
pan-scan version on the other.

            -Greg-