What do you think about 3D? Do you like it? Hate it? Think it's better than 4K?

[Jsmith82]

Originally Posted by Wes_Bluray_Collector

No.

Hate 3D with a passion.

I vow NEVER to buy a 3D TV or Player.

Care to explain the passion behind the hatred?

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Jsmith82

Care to explain the passion behind the hatred?

Here, we'll make it easier, just check one of the boxes:

__ "I hate glasses, they give me a headache!--Everyone else in the entire world thinks so too!"

__ "Those cheap studios and their cheap conversions! I watched Clash of the Titans once, and swore it off forever!"

__ "Those cheap studios and their cheap conversions, forcing us into theaters and making us pay for glasses that give everyone in the world a headache! I'm camped out on Samsung's doorstep waiting for glasses-free TV, which should be invented, affordable and on store shelves any minute now...They promised!"

__ "It's all cheap crappy kiddy movie conversions like Clash of the Titans! I'm not buying one until we get a Hitchcock or a Scorsese movie in 3-D!"

__ "Yeah, now that they invented one, they're all going to make everyone in the world switch to watching every single movie/TV program in 3-D, like they did with HDTV! Heard some guys got rounded up in internment camps for not switching, like in Red Dawn!"

__ "HD-DVD failed, and this's gonna fail too, 'cause....it's like when HD-DVD came out and they tried to make us buy that too, and, like, we didn't!"

__ "Just watch, we'll get something else in five minutes, and I'll have to spend money on that too, just to stay out of the internment camps! Yeah, we'll all forget about it by the time 4K comes along, and everybody buys it...as soon as we explain to them what the heck it is, but, like they'll know it's better than Clash of the Titans."

(There--That'll save a few posts. )

[Robut]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Here, we'll make it easier, just check one of the boxes:

__ "I hate glasses, they give me a headache!--Everyone else in the entire world thinks so too!"

__ "Those cheap studios and their cheap conversions! I watched Clash of the Titans once, and swore it off forever!"

__ "Those cheap studios and their cheap conversions, forcing us into theaters and making us pay for glasses that give everyone in the world a headache! I'm camped out on Samsung's doorstep waiting for glasses-free TV, which should be invented, affordable and on store shelves any minute now...They promised!"

__ "It's all cheap crappy kiddy movie conversions like Clash of the Titans! I'm not buying one until we get a Hitchcock or a Scorsese movie in 3-D!"

__ "Yeah, now that they invented one, they're all going to make everyone in the world switch to watching every single movie/TV program in 3-D, like they did with HDTV! Heard some guys got rounded up in internment camps for not switching, like in Red Dawn!"

__ "HD-DVD failed, and this's gonna fail too, 'cause....it's like when HD-DVD came out and they tried to make us buy that too, and, like, we didn't!"

__ "Just watch, we'll get something else in five minutes, and I'll have to spend money on that too, just to stay out of the internment camps! Yeah, we'll all forget about it by the time 4K comes along, and everybody buys it...as soon as we explain to them what the heck it is, but, like they'll know it's better than Clash of the Titans."

(There--That'll save a few posts. )

I've taken my comment back. It was too negative as is this whole post..

[steve1971]

Originally Posted by Wes_Bluray_Collector

No.

Hate 3D with a passion.

I vow NEVER to buy a 3D TV or Player.

Why dont you explain to us why you feel the way you do? Or really why dont you tell us how you really feel? lol

[joenostalgia23]

If you don't think 3D is good or that it's a gimmick...
I highly recommend watching Hugo and Life of Pi in 3D.
Might just change your ways.

[Mr.Twinks]

Since I have had a FP setup, I have been loving 3D in my HT! I actually enjoy movies more in my home than at my local cinema.

[sookymonster]

Today from Nasdaq -

http://community.nasdaq.com/News/201...storyid=192356

I hate stories like this as I love 3D. Claims it has failed again, yet does not mention that 4 out the top 5 grossing movies are 3D.

[AmrlKJaneway]

Originally Posted by sookymonster

Today from Nasdaq -

http://community.nasdaq.com/News/201...storyid=192356

I hate stories like this as I love 3D. Claims it has failed again, yet does not mention that 4 out the top 5 grossing movies are 3D.

1. Gone With The Wind
2. Star Wars
3. The Sound of Music
4. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Titanic

1 out of 5, and it was post-converted fifteen years later.

The other list;

1. Avatar
2. Titanic
3. The Avengers
4. The Dark Knight
5. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Does not account for inflation, or the increased ticket price of 3D. Plus, two of these movies were post-converted over a decade later, after they'd made the bulk of their profit.

Love 3D as much as you want, I do too. But we can't deny its fading popularity. Auto-stereoscopic/holography will save it, but don't hold your breath for them.

You'll have to wait for the 3D revolution, ver 4.0!

[sookymonster]

Originally Posted by AmrlKJaneway

1. Gone With The Wind
2. Star Wars
3. The Sound of Music
4. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Titanic

1 out of 5, and it was post-converted fifteen years later.

The other list;

1. Avatar
2. Titanic
3. The Avengers
4. The Dark Knight
5. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Does not account for inflation, or the increased ticket price of 3D. Plus, two of these movies were post-converted over a decade later, after they'd made the bulk of their profit.

Love 3D as much as you want, I do too. But we can't deny its fading popularity. Auto-stereoscopic/holography will save it, but don't hold your breath for them.

You'll have to wait for the 3D revolution, ver 4.0!

Mate, your wrong, sorry, here it is from box office mojo-



WORLDWIDE GROSSES
#1-100 - #101-200 - #201-300 - #301-400 - #401-500 - #501-504

Pink highlight = official revisions of older movies
Gold highlight = now playing or recent movies



Rank

Title

Studio

Worldwide

Domestic / %

Overseas / %

Year^



1

Avatar

Fox

$2,782.3

$760.5

27.3%

$2,021.8

72.7%

2009^



2

Titanic

Par.

$2,185.4

$658.7

30.1%

$1,526.7

69.9%

1997^



3

Marvel's The Avengers

BV

$1,511.8

$623.4

41.2%

$888.4

58.8%

2012



4

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

WB

$1,328.1

$381.0

28.7%

$947.1

71.3%

2011



5

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

P/DW

$1,123.7

$352.4

31.4%

$771.4

68.6%

2011

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

Actually I was wrong, its 5 from 5.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by AmrlKJaneway

1. Gone With The Wind
2. Star Wars
3. The Sound of Music
4. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Titanic

1 out of 5, and it was post-converted fifteen years later.

The other list;

1. Avatar
2. Titanic
3. The Avengers
4. The Dark Knight
5. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Does not account for inflation, or the increased ticket price of 3D.

so? times change, the second one is based on ac tual numbers while the first one is based on made up useless numbers that come out of no where.

Does the first list take into consideration, for example, that when Gone With The Wind came out there was nothing else to do (no TV, no PCs) and so movies where one of the very few activities for people back then? That back then a ticket was a fraction of a low end hourly wage while now they can be several times one (i.e. I just watched skyfall in Imax and the ticket was 20$, that means someone making minimum wage here they would need to work more hours then the running length of the film). Does it take into consideration that today I can see a film in theatres or at home a few weeks later but there was a time when the only option was to see a film in the theatres and so many of those films were re-released in theatres over the years because they thought people would want to re-see them. Does the first list take into consideration that today there are very very few second run theatres, but that for some of the films there were many second and thrid run theatres where the prices were practicaly free so teenagers did not care what was playing since buying the ticket there was all about having a nice dark room to make out in.

For some films the ticket sales are known, for others they are not and so it comes down to making up a guess at how many ticket sold based on revenue and then multiplying it with a fake number to give a guess of how well it would do today.

And in this discussion it makes even less sense to look at the adjusted chart. Why? in 2010 when Avatar’s numbers shot them to #1, they had the adjusted for inflation as lower then what it actually did in revenue, why? because most films were in 2D 2009 and so the “adjusted” ticket price was a lot more heavily influenced by 2D ticket price, today because there are a lot of films in 3D the average ticket price is higher and even in many ways the prices of tickets have not really changed the “adjusted ticket price” has.

PS also the adjusted chart is only for the US and so completely meaningless.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by sookymonster

Mate, your wrong, sorry, here it is from box office mojo-

actually he used http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
because studios don't make decisions on how much people spend in the world but only on some made up number that is only limited to the US

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

PS also the adjusted chart is only for the US and so completely meaningless.

Actually, the discussion is centered on box office receipts, and thus is completely meaningless.

The ridiculous game - which has devolved into some kind of "horse race" statistics - is that of counting box office receipts, over some defined amount of time. We get the wacky stuff:

• Opening Weekend Numbers
• Movie A vs Movie B on opening weekend
• How the movie did with some age group or the other
• Movie receipts by rating
• How much money did it make since "X" date (Christmas, your birthday, whatever)
• What season it was released in

These are games the studios play, of little or no interest to the consumer at all. Either you want to see the movie, or you don't. More importantly, do you want to got to the theater or not - this is increasingly a huge question.

Studios can pile up some cash pretty quickly, with a short chain from the theater to their bank accounts - fewer middlemen. Going the video route has more costs, and more fingers dipping into that stream of money - but the river can run for years if you have a hit, and ultimately return more cash, in many cases.

Since there are no same day theater and video releases, they can keep that quiet. Hold off on releasing the video, and the cash comes in faster. As far as revenue, and eyeballs on the film, video wins - some of the same theatergoers double dip, and I hate to shock people or commit heresy, but most people don't go to theaters. Many do, but most don't, or go very rarely. Virtually all buy videos.

If any statistic does not include total box office plus total video sales, since the time of initial release - it's immaterial. You will have a tough time getting these numbers, because it is not in the producer's interests to make the public privy to that information.

As long as the nightly newscaster can breathlessly give this week's box office number and give the absolutely moronic "who won this weekend" numbers, the public will be fooled.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

Actually, the discussion is centered on box office receipts, and thus is completely meaningless.

The ridiculous game - which has devolved into some kind of "horse race" statistics - is that of counting box office receipts, over some defined amount of time. We get the wacky stuff://

I hate to shock people or commit heresy, but most people don't go to theaters. Many do, but most don't, or go very rarely. Virtually all buy videos.

As long as the nightly newscaster can breathlessly give this week's box office number and give the absolutely moronic "who won this weekend" numbers, the public will be fooled.

Interesting info, thanks.
New movie theaters have gone up in my area in the past 4 years, and they're doing well enough to stay in business past the first year (still open). So even though a lot of people I ask "Do you go to the movie theater to see a movie, or just rent/buy it?", end up saying, "I buy/rent it", myself and a good number of others are keeping the theaters alive and well thankfully, for the foreseeable future.

I love the movie theater. It's like entering another world. Cinemark does a great job with the theater experience, seating, movie times, selection, 3D, etc.

As far as 3D movies, I'd say 2013's line up of 3D movies is a good example, along with the huge movie Hobbit 3D, that 3D is not dying, but remaining strong, thanks to stronger 3D efforts by studios like Dreamworks, etc.

Many senior citizens could care less about 3D (not all), but I agree that 3D will go mainstream when we can buy a glasses-free 3DTV for the same price as a 2DTV. I'd say within the next 8 years hopefully.

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

Interesting info, thanks.
New movie theaters have gone up in my area in the past 4 years, and they're doing well enough to stay in business past the first year (still open). So even though a lot of people I ask "Do you go to the movie theater to see a movie, or just rent/buy it?", end up saying, "I buy/rent it", myself and a good number of others are keeping the theaters alive and well thankfully, for the foreseeable future.

They're not going anywhere, but they're a niche. The whole "experience" thing is enchanting for folks who can't afford that kind of faux opulence and presentation at home, but more folks are getting around to it. Once, there were only sqare television screens, and little built-in speakers - that's changing.

But as long as people are compressed into shared living spaces, such as apartments and condominiums, or folks they live with or near can't handle the noise - they'll feel the need to get the heck out of there and go to a movie - and theaters will be there. It's a lot cheaper to go to the show than it is to build up a big home theater.

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

I love the movie theater. It's like entering another world. Cinemark does a great job with the theater experience, seating, movie times, selection, 3D, etc.

As far as 3D movies, I'd say 2013's line up of 3D movies is a good example, along with the huge movie Hobbit 3D, that 3D is not dying, but remaining strong, thanks to stronger 3D efforts by studios like Dreamworks, etc.

I always look over my shoulder when adjectives like "huge" and "blockbuster" get use, because what's huge at the local high school isn't huge at the old folk's home, and vice versa. With ticket prices what they are, I like to do the long division to see how many actual people, not dollar bills, flow into the theater. It's a whole new way of looking at things.

3D isn't going to "die", but it will change. It has to, so all markets - theaters, video, and broadcast - can actually be utilized by folks without destroying their budgets.

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

Many senior citizens could care less about 3D (not all), but I agree that 3D will go mainstream when we can buy a glasses-free 3DTV for the same price as a 2DTV. I'd say within the next 8 years hopefully.

It's mostly the under-25 market that's enamored of it - over that age, and they don't give a hoot about Harry Potter, Hobbits, or any of it. If that market is supplied with a product they can afford, they'll buy it. It will all work out.

[Spicoli]

A couple of years ago when I was an avid bluray.com member and blu ray collector, I remembered the hype of 3D. I remember some of us excited and many ....not so much.

Many members here expressed their feeling of discontent towards the idea of 3D being a fad and/or won't be around too long.

If you were one of them, do you still feel the same?

[Jack_Ryder_2012]

Alot of people will still whine and call it a fad or a gimmick, but i think its here to stay as long as blu ray is around, it probably makes alot more money now the way its advertised and even the norm in theaters to have a 3d version or 2d version of a blockbuster movie, even my little town in the middle of nowhere got RE retribution and silent hill revelation in 3d so its here to stay, it almost feels like a victory, im sure some are still in denial

[Rainhurt]

Eight years baby! On the 7th of this month, the anniversary of The Polar Express general release, Digital 3D celebrates eight years in the mainstream movie market.

Hard to believe it has been that long already!

[Kerouac]

I like 3D movies, but I gave up trying to watch them. I always get a headache. I've tried different glasses, lighting, positioning etc. Nothing I've tried prevents the headaches from occurring.

[Clinton3779]

Originally Posted by Kerouac

I like 3D movies, but I gave up trying to watch them. I always get a headache. I've tried different glasses, lighting, positioning etc. Nothing I've tried prevents the headaches from occurring.

Are you married? I have the same problem but I remember my wife causing the headaches, not the 3D!!!!

Lol

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Spicoli

A couple of years ago when I was an avid bluray.com member and blu ray collector, I remembered the hype of 3D. I remember some of us excited and many ....not so much.

Many members here expressed their feeling of discontent towards the idea of 3D being a fad and/or won't be around too long.

If you were one of them, do you still feel the same?

The film purist in me (and that's a lot of me) has allowed me to appreciate natively shot 3D films. Conversions however are just a gimmick and a cash grab for the studios.