phillyrobt
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Thanks, Olive. Got my copy Tuesday in excellent packaging with 2 stickers (where independent art matters). Premiering it in 2 days!
I don't mind at all.David M. Ballew said:Revgen said: "There's only one caveat. I thought the depth wasn't as deep as I recalled it being at the 3D expo, so I cranked up the '3D perspective' setting on the Samsung plasma to +5 max and it looked much better."
This strikes me as very surprising, if you don't mind my saying so. I watched “Dragonfly Squadron” last night on my 50-inch LG passive TV and found that homologous image points in the far background very often had a nice, wide separation. The image was plenty deep. On my Optoma projector, I expect the positive parallax (and the depth illusion) to be even greater.
I will tell you (in case it’s pertinent), I once popped in “House of Wax” for a casual viewing. It’s a film I have seen and enjoyed in 3-D numerous times and am very familiar with. I glanced at the screen, then did a double take. The 3-D looked very odd and very shallow. Come to find out, my Blu-Ray player was playing the flick in 2-D, but the TV was trying its best to auto-convert the film to 3-D! If you ever wanted to gauge the accuracy of your TV’s auto-conversion feature, that’s sure one way to do it.
My receiver in the family room is also not 3D ready. The HDMI out of the TV is connected to the receiver. The TV sends Dolby Digital to the receiver but if the disk is DTS it sends Dolby Pro Logic.Douglas R said:Received and watched DRAGONFLY SQUADRON today. As others have said, the 3D has very impressive depth and gives wonderful realism to the images. I saw the film recently on TV (flat of course) from a dull, almost unwatchable print but this 3D Blu-Ray really brings the film to life.My only problem with 3D is that my 5 year old AV receiver is not 3D compatible so I have the hassle of unplugging the HDMI cable from the receiver and connecting it to the TV whenever watching a 3D disc. Time to upgrade I think. At least with DRAGONFLY SQUADRON being region free I didn't have the additional hassle of switching the region coding on my Blu-Ray player!
I hope this goes beyond Kiss Me Kate. One that would be killer would be a 3D blu ray of Robot Monster from the Archive.Bob Furmanek said:We're deep at work on Rarities and restoring two lost 3-D shorts that have not been seen since 1953! After that? Well, there's some good things ahead for 3-D aficionados in 2015...