Avatar DVD

You do for decent 3D.

3D via a DVD source using a normal TV & red/cyan 3D glasses would not look very good... certainly not the kind of quality you'd expect James Cameron to insist upon for his beloved Avatar.



There's a separate image for each eye, alternating frame by frame (left-eye, right-eye, left-eye, right-eye...).

Polarisation 3D TV uses polarised glasses so that each eye sees the intended frames.

Alternate-frame sequencing 3D TV uses active shutter glasses, so that each eye sees the intended frames.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_television

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_3D#3D_Blu-Ray
 
It's obvious that this release is for money. The reason there is lack of special content will be partly because of the length, but mainly because they can release more versions in the future with more special content than before.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing it in the cinema in 3D again. It was the first 3D film I had seen so I was distracted by the 3D-ness. I'd like to see it in 3D knowing what to expect.

I bought it from Play.com for
 
The DVD dont look much better upscaled either.
I was wondering if they purposely made it look slightly worse than normal on DVD to try and convince more to go Blu Ray.
Star Wars episode 4 DVD has a higher PQ than this and that came out 6 years ago.
 
That has already been mentioned several times! Later this year one will be released with loaRAB, and hopefully, funny outtakes:D It always bugs me that serious films dont have funny outtakes. There must be loaRAB in the can!
 
For me, if anyone neeRAB convincing why BluRay is a worthwhile investment this is it.

Comparing the BR and DVD the difference is staggering. Not just in picture quality, but the speed difference as well. The DVD is noticeably too fast compared to Blu ray at 24 frames per second.

Jake looks like he's an hyperactive serial fidgeter, while the scientists dash around the lab like they've got rockets up their @rses.

It's never bothered me on a UK DVD before, but having both versions to compare side by side really makes it stand out.
 
The 3D for that was utter shite! I saw better 3D when Channel 4 showed a re-run of Creature From The Black Lagoon in 1986! That's what you get for converting a 2D movie into a 3D one though.

3D TV? The new betamax; the new Sony Minidisc; the new HD-DVD! Doomed to fail.
 
You are over stating. While i agree 3d is overrated, esp for home use, its not going to remain expensive. Screens that simply are able to display 120hz+ are going to become standard soon enough simply as a matter of technological progress, so the feature will essentially be free eventually. That being said you'll still need to buy the 3d bluray player and shutter glasses to see it.



Dvd is incapable of true 3d. 3d requires 60 frames per eye or such for smoothness. Dvd was only ever designed to throw out 60, it cannot do more. Further more you need a tv that is not only capable of displaying at 120hz, but actually accepting 120 unique frames per second, not interpolated junk. Not to mention its pixel speed cannot fudge, there is no wiggle room, when the shutter is open for the eye, the pixel has to have reached its position, whereas for 2d and 120+hz interpolated junk you can't really tell if they were off the mark. Its just not forgiving. And of course, 3d doesn't scale well for small screens, never mind the low resolution.

Watch this for explanation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238gr0R2CXg

The only 3d "dvRAB" are fake 3d, aka chidlrens comic book 3d with colored tinted glasses, crude and awful.
 
On another note... has anyone received their Avatar Blu-Ray from Amazon yet? Mine was despatched about 3 days ago so i'm hoping it'll turn up today or tomorrow.
 
From what I've read there ain't gonna be no 3D version in the XMas release - what we'll get instead is the "extended (by ~6mins)" version that will have been shown in the cinemas in August.
 
Show us the screenshots of it being better, the simple fact is dvd is 0.3mp or so, 5-6x less resolution than bluray, back in the day of starwars dvd releases you probably had lower expectations, and memory tenRAB to make things seem better than they were. Rescale those dvRAB to 1080p and you'd see all their flaws as well.
 
Hang on..it's the highest grossing fillm EVER..and me buying the blu-ray without ANY special features will 'help' finance the sequel? Right..that makes perfect sense.

It's called exploitation by the way, not business.

;)
 
On the other hand people complain too easily, the ticket price to watch something that cost hundreRAB of millions to make is basically value for money.
 
Back
Top