Hi Guys, am might totally be in the wrong place to start this thread...but has any one been able to watch a 3-D movie in their HT? besides the special glasses, do I need a better/special projector?
I'd like to see if it is possible to watch a 3-D movie in the confort of home... any thoughts. Thanks
It seems like the right place to bring up the general topic. As specifics are defined you might need to start posting in the projector or screen forums, but we ain't there yet.
Yes, you can do 3-D at home with your projector,
but you will be limited with the
type of 3-D movies you can watch if you only use a single PJ. Basically, you should be able to watch the old Anaglyph 3-D movies that require the viewer to wear the glasses with red and blue lenses in them. These are almost always Black & White movies since the colored glasses play hob with a color image.
From Wikipedia:
"Anaglyph image
Anaglyph images have seen a recent resurgence due to the presentation of images on the internet. Where traditionally, this has been a largely black & white format, recent digital camera and processing advances have brought very acceptable color images to the internet and DVD field. With the online availability of low cost paper glasses with improved red-cyan filters, and even better plastic framed glasses, the field is growing fast. Scientific images, where depth perception is useful, include the presentation of complex multi-dimensional data sets and stereographic images from (for example) the surface of Mars, but due to recent release of 3D DVDs, they are increasingly used for entertainment. Anaglyph images are much easier to view than either parallel sighting or crossed eye stereograms, although the latter types offer bright and accurate color rendering,particularly in the red component, which is muted, or desaturated with even the best color anaglyphs. A compensating technique, commonly known as Anachrome, uses a slightly more transparent cyan filter in the patented glasses associated with the technique. Process reconfigures the typical anaglyph image to have less parallax."
If you are willing to go to the expense of using a two-projector system you might be able to go with a 3-D system that uses image polarization and special glasses, but I have no idea how many movies are available for home use with these systems. One projector for each eye, the left PJ plays the left eye image and the right PJ plays the right-eye image; these are superimposed on a single screen. The glasses allow only the correct image to be seen by the relevant eye.
A good beginning link for understanding 3-D movie stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film