This is from Real-D’s website on the subject manner

http://www.reald.com/Content/in-the-home.aspx

I am no techie. I am not 100% up to speed on the latest toys especially those surrounding home theater equipment. From what I have experienced the best studio have to offer for home viewing of a 3-D movie is the traditional Red/Blue 3-D glasses from yesteryear. If I am not mistaking the Coraline DVD came with R/B glasses. Form experience I have only seen digital 3-D glass “Real-D” at the movie theater, hence why you have to pay at lease 2.50$ extra for the 3-D experience, not necessarily to pay for the glasses but for a experience you can’t get at home. All of my friends who have seen the same 3-D movie in theaters and at home, have said the movie theater’s digital 3-D was better and that the R/B glasses doesn’t cut it. So as being a non-techie I vote for digital 3-D…Real-D

Good analogy!

i don’t understand what you mean by that, could you clarify?

The last movie I saw in 3D was Up and it definitely wasn’t planned as a 3D movie by Pixar in advance at ALL. That it was the same thing that’s happening here with Iron Man 2. The movie was made first, then converted to 3D. Only a few times in the whole movie did the 3D effect really stick out at all and even then it didn’t feel worth the extra money we paid. Nothing flew at the screen or anything like that.

Infact, the previews were also in 3D and made in 3D, and they were MUCH cooler and funner to see in 3D then all of the movie. When people asked me how the movie was, I’d say, “it was great, one of the best movies ever. But don’t see the 3D version, hardly any of it was really 3D and isn’t worth the extra money”.

Seems like Disney just made it 3D at the last minute to make some extra cash, when Pixar didn’t feel the need to make the animation 3D friendly in the first place. That it was going to be a great movie and make loads of money, regardless.

Now granted Iron Man 2 is going to be a huge action flick, with many more chances for things to come flying at you then Up had. Like bullets, missiles, Whiplash’s whips, and so forth. But I still can’t help but remain pessimistic after my first experience with the converted 3D in Up.

I agree that 3D is a fad and will die out. However, I hate hearing this argument. When sync-sound first came out, would you rather have watched a silent movie that just “happened” to be made with mics on, though the sound contributed in no way to the story? Or how about one that is up-converted into a sound film with dubbing. No, I think we’d all prefer to see a movie that was made with sound in mind, fully utilizing the technology. Otherwise sound movies wouldn’t have grown into what we see them as today.

In my opinion, converting 2D movies to 3D like this is the equivalent of when they started “colorizing” older black and white movies in the 60s. I say 3D should go for it. It probably won’t last long anyway!

Stereoscopic is slightly different than Red/Blue 3D. It flashes back and forth between the same scene with two slightly different angles of filming. The polarized glasses either flicker or block out the spectrum of the the opposite shot. The flickering takes place so fast that our brain doesn’t pick up the shots as separate, but rather combines them to create the 3D experience by mimicking the way our eyes see the real world.

Feel free to correct any of that, I running off memory at the moment since I am at work.

not true – the superbowl commercials utilized red-blue 3D. I had “real D” glasses and tried to watch, but they didn’t work.

besides, 3D is supposed to involved 2 separate images, eye-distance apart, that are projected together. So when they make something 3D from a single image, it usually doesn’t look as good

“The camera is no different for 3d than it is for 2d. Its just the print they screen on that camera.”

Are you talking about stereoscopic 3D, like Cameron uses? Because that is pretty different in both camera used for filming and how it displayed in the end. Regular TVs are not capable of newer 3D technology, hence the new 3D TVs that are coming out or are out.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong on this.

3D is external to the movie itself, I think that’s why people call it a gimmick.

I’ve never cared for dishing out extra dollars for 3D. I’ve been floored by 2D films in cinema for years, I’ll enjoy 2D films the same way for years to come.

Agreed.