Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3D (2016) [Region Free]

[levcore]

UK release today. Will pick up and hopefully enjoy a bit more second time around fingers crossed.

[evoll]

Ok finally got to watch this today (had been waiting on the guy to come calibrate my Tv) and I have to say imo the 3d looked good. Some scenes looked better than others but overall the depth looked good. I will only watch the 3d version now after seeing how good it looked on my OLED.

[evoll]

Yes I agree,as Paul said before and I can say the same thing the 3d on the oppo 203 looks better or more pronounced than the 103 I had.

[Frank@Chicago]

Originally Posted by evoll

Yes I agree,as Paul said before and I can say the same thing the 3d on the oppo 203 looks better or more pronounced than the 103 I had.

I'm thinking about the new LG 4K/3D player w/DV for $299, it just came out.

I guess the only way to test the 3D is to pick one up and give it a spin...

[levcore]

Rewatched the first forty minutes last night. Very mediocre 3D, very disappointing and a huge missed opportunity. I remember things ramping up a bit for the finale though so i'll probably watch the rest this evening.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by levcore

Rewatched the first forty minutes last night. Very mediocre 3D, very disappointing and a huge missed opportunity. I remember things ramping up a bit for the finale though so i'll probably watch the rest this evening.

The finale froma 3d perspective is certainly far better. To me the issue isn't strictly speaking the depth though, it is that the film just wasn't framed with 3d in mind at all and they didn't get lucky where it just so happened to be framed well for 3d either.

Solid, but one I can certainly see why someone would pick the 4k version over the 3d version if it where available. Something I wouldn't say about very good 3d, let alone great 3d.

[DJR662]

I ordered the regular UK 3D release since I prefer to avoid steelbooks whenever possible. 3D edition in my country seems to be steelbook only.

[DJR662]

Will watch my UK copy this weekend.

[Zivouhr]

Star Wars Celebration Live, Star Wars link on youtube.com for the Star Wars Celebration Thursday through Sunday. The video starts around 30 minutes in.
Channel Star Wars:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZGYJFUizSax-yElQaFDp5Q

EDIT: They took down the video and will repost it in segments probably later today.
Guests included George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Chewbacca, Warrick Davis, etc. Then a short tribute to Leia Carrie Fisher and then John Williams conducted the orchestra.

[BossTweed]

This past Saturday in Johnson City Tennessee. I went to Target to get the 3D Star Wars Rogue One blu-ray. They were sold out. I went to Best Buy. Also sold out. I went to Walmart. Sold out! Normally, I consider this good news of 3D blu-ray sales in the USA. What I despise is two things. People buying it and not watching it just to have it in their collection or selling it on ebay or amazon at extremely expensive prices. Stores not having sufficent copies of it in stock!

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by BossTweed

This past Saturday in Johnson City Tennessee. I went to Target to get the 3D Star Wars Rogue One blu-ray. They were sold out. I went to Best Buy. Also sold out. I went to Walmart. Sold out! Normally, I consider this good news of 3D blu-ray sales in the USA. What I despise is two things. People buying it and not watching it just to have it in their collection or selling it on ebay or amazon at extremely expensive prices. Stores not having sufficent copies of it in stock!

I agree that some will buy 20 copies and then resell them for twice as much online since they're collector items with the rare packaging. Sorry to hear about that. It's good to hear it's selling well, but not when you can't find it anywhere.
It's a nice set, so hopefully you'll get to see it soon.

[eddievanhalen]

My Philips 4K is just average displaying 3D but with Rogue One I get PLENTY of ghosting. Has this happened to more people to get more than normal ghosting on their T.V. sets or is it only on mine?

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by eddievanhalen

My Philips 4K is just average displaying 3D but with Rogue One I get PLENTY of ghosting. Has this happened to more people to get more than normal ghosting on their T.V. sets or is it only on mine?

I haven't had ghosting on my 3DTVs, though unless I could see your set up and seating, it's hard to tell, other than a few factors.

Keeping in mind, Rogue One really pushes the whole picture back into the screen (reaching in) even though the 3D layers are mostly low medium to medium, then eventually amp up later on. By pushing the image back so far, it increases the double image separation in the backgrounds (foreground is usually blended as nearly a single image to keep it within the screen) so if you're sitting at even a slightly off angle, you'll notice those double images as ghosting until you're directly lined up properly with your 3DTV. Once lined up, the ghosting should disappear in most cases unless there's a high contrast shot with bright neon lights against a plain, dark background with stronger 3D.

Some people will put their 3D TV on a wall above their sight line. This has the tendency to not only result in ghosting due to having the wrong angle, but can also greatly diminish the effect of the 3D. With current 3DTV tech, being lined up makes all of the difference.

[BossTweed]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Walmart didn't get a 3D release.

My Target;s had plenty of stock on Friday/Saturday when I ran the numbers, but several now showing OOS or only a few left. Not sure if they started sending them back or the weekend caught up to the inventory and the end of the SW discount codes.

It is strange that I'm getting quite different numbers via Brickseek than I'm seeing at the Target website though. Brickseek says my closest store has 10, but online says sold out. One of the stores says they have 80 copies of teh exclusive so I'm guessing something isn't correct. Normally I trust brickseek to be close, but occasionally DPCI number gets crossed and the regular editions get counted in the exclusives

Bristol lists 14 in stock by Brickseek (2 by website), but I'm not sure I believe it or you'd want to drive that far (20 miles is my closest store anyway). I guess you could call and check to make sure it's the correct item if you're on a mission.

Walmart is always a gamble with 3D. The Target website says Bristol is out of stock. I'll try Brickseek.

[Frank@Chicago]

The only ghosting I saw in Rogue One was in the lava waterfall fly-by scene.

Just watched it again tonight with the wife, very clear PQ and good 3D depth.

By comparison, I put in Force Awakens just double check it on a different player.

When Finn has a panic attack in that storage container and takes off his stormtrooper helmet, his face and armor and background all buzz with video noise.

I'm not really sure why so many people feel FA is a reference quality transfer, it's muddy looking to me often and alot of the darker scenes seem to have video noise.

That's not to say it's a bad movie or anything, i just don't think it's video is reference quality.

[eddievanhalen]

Originally Posted by Frank@Chicago

The only ghosting I saw in Rogue One was in the lava waterfall fly-by scene.

Just watched it again tonight with the wife, very clear PQ and good 3D depth.

By comparison, I put in Force Awakens just double check it on a different player.

When Finn has a panic attack in that storage container and takes off his stormtrooper helmet, his face and armor and background all buzz with video noise.

I'm not really sure why so many people feel FA is a reference quality transfer, it's muddy looking to me often and alot of the darker scenes seem to have video noise.

That's not to say it's a bad movie or anything, i just don't think it's video is reference quality.

Keep in mind that TFA was shot on 35mm film, what you think it's video noise it may well be film grain. What I don't like about TFA is that it's "plasticky" looking at times. Film shot movies have to be degrained to be converted to 3D, that's where this plasticky looking comes. Digital filmed movies don't have grain, they're more clean looking and they can be converted to 3D with no tampering on picture.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by eddievanhalen

Keep in mind that TFA was shot on 35mm film, what you think it's video noise it may well be film grain. What I don't like about TFA is that it's "plasticky" looking at times. Film shot movies have to be degrained to be converted to 3D, that's where this plasticky looking comes. Digital filmed movies don't have grain, they're more clean looking and they can be converted to 3D with no tampering on picture.

That they don't. My evidence is 3d films shoot on film before dnr was a thing along with the many scenes that look fine in TFA. Likewise those plasticy shoots exist in the 2d version of the film as well and there is nothing to suggest the 3d version did anything notable, if anything at all in that regard.

[Joe D.]

Found the movie a bit boring, basically a repetition of the star wars formula with little imagination or ingenuity except for the last sixty seconds.

The 3D quality was surprisingly mediocre, though it doesn't mean one would have been better off watching it flat. It's just that with all that was going on, there was opportunity for so much more.

Just didn't enjoy the film as I thought I would because of the overall reviews. Guess rehashing an old story line with so much predictably for some can make a franchise seem stale, even for a prequel.

[DJR662]

Just finished watching it for the first time at home and I liked what I saw 3D and PQ wise. Moreover I actually enjoyed the movie better this time than when I first saw it in cinemas last year.

[don3663]

Never saw this in theatres.

Loved it on BR though. Really disappointed in myself for not watching in IMAX.

PQ and 3D was great to me. On my W1070 there was no ghosting at all. It's not a very 3D heavy movie though. I remember TFA having better 3D effects.