I'm not a big fan of double dipping, but I decided to pick up the dredd 4K steelbook from Walmart, which has a 3D encode of the film on the included BD.
Okay, I'll have to check back closer to the time of release to compare. I had only compared the preorder price. As of now, there is an extra $14 to checkout through Amazon.
I have some Amazon credits that I wanted to use, so it looks like I'm going to get it from one of the third party sellers (before they're all gone hopefully).
Amacon canceled my order for Robot Monster due to no availability. Guess I'm gonna' have to go to Bayview. EDIT: Oddly, they do have it available from third party sources. Odd since I preordered the effer months ago that Amacon themselves couldn't secure a single copy.
Goofy AF, almost like a zany marriage between Avatar and Star Wars. I got distracted by my phone halfway through, might try it again some day (probably in UHD on the next viewing).
Speaking of 3D Film Archive, they have a wealth of offerings to come. I only hope we live long enough to see them all:
https://3dfilmarchive.com/
ROBOT MONSTER - SUMMER 2023
THE BUBBLE ROADSHOW - 2024
SOUTHWEST PASSAGE - 2024
THE GLASS WEB - RELEASE DATE TBA
BWANA DEVIL - RELEASE DATE TBA...
That's good information to have, but I don't see anybody purchasing 3D discs from Japan when they would be available stateside (i.e. Avatar sequel). This is slowly down to the actions of a rotten studio.
I like that it includes the UHD, but the MovieNEX is absolutely useless to me stateside. I wonder if there's a market for those on eBay. Speaking Japanese would probably make it easier to hawk said codes.
Anybody ready to blow a cool $80 on Quantumania can now do so: https://www.yesasia.com/us/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-movienex-4k-ultra-hd-3d-blu-ray-japan/1121509341-0-0-0-en/info.html
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the network runs just as well without 80% of the dead weight. 🤷♂️
Didn't even realize new owners were on board, that's a good thing. Welcome.
Doh, I just remembered that Robot Monster is currently in the works. I'll take that over the laughable Now This/MSNBC (Comcast overlords) fake dinosaur adventure and most other modernity.
Christmas came early, both The Diamond Wizard and the new Jurassic World arrived yesterday. The former was stunning as expected (have yet to view the latest dinosaur reincarnation rehash).
Any other releases coming? It feels like the end of home 3D cinema has definitively arrived.
Jes, thanks for investigating. Related to some behind-the-scenes technical glitch apparently, working today (10-27-2022). Received an equivalent email from support.
Random Space media claims they won't ship to my address anymore (I've tried multiple variations for the latest Jurassic film with no luck). The last Spiderman was ordered and delivered without issue earlier this year. I'm US-based.
I doubt it will continue into perpetuity, especially as the 3DTV supply continues to dwindle into nothing.
As for No Way Home, those stateside might want to get their orders in via RSM based on what customer support told me a week ago:
Purchased both Monster Hunter and Dune from jpc.de in the same order. Big mistake, they won't ship anything until both are released (now I know). I guess this is one way they beat bigger competitors on price listings.
I succumbed and bought this on Sunday (I'm not getting any younger after all). It won't arrive until 10-26. I'm sure the situation on the ground/air has changed given recent headlines (not the weather).
The display is simply doing the scaling and I'm not sure how this is detectably different on a passive display regardless of the 3d source it's being fed. It seems to make assumptions about internal signals that are not being equally applied to the HDMI inputs. I've only viewed a single...
You can add LG's 4k models from at least 2014 to 2016 as far as streaming capability (VUDU in the US) is concerned. The half-resolution is immaterial since the displays support 4K.
Re: Pets 2 (it arrived yesterday). Yes, it was disjointed, but not any more so than the latest Godzilla. Pets 2 was more fun and immersive (in owing to its full-screen AR). The bright and expansive environments were also more conducive to showing off the faux third dimension.
Hard to provide a juxtaposition point since I've yet to seen Pets 2 (and you haven't seen the latest Godzilla). It's just a little *too* ridiculous, outlandish, and improbable.