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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:37:02 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-10-22 15:40:03 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
      
      
      
      
   >> That's right -- "3d" (stereoscopic) movies do /not/ require a special    
   >> player and a special TV and glasses costing $125 a pair. The entire    
   >> "3d" (stereoscopic) BD/HD thing was a cynical marketing ploy.   
   >   
   >3D in every form has never really been popular, partly thanks to    
   >needing silly glasses of one type or another. There are new computer    
   >monitors that do 3D without needing glasses, which might move up to    
   >bigger TV screens, but again it's really just a gimmick to part fools    
   >from their money, and there will be hardly any actual content to watch    
   >(other than perhaps a re-release of the few awful old 3D movies, like    
   >"Jaws 3D").   
      
   I've never actually experienced it. I already have glasses, thank you   
   very much.   
      
   And the reports of people barfing are off-putting.   
      
   That I have some experience with, in that I saw some of the early   
   Cinerama films (including /How the West was Won/) and those had scenes   
   known to produce barfing when actually seen in Cinerama in a Cinerama   
   theater. Not in me, thank goodness.   
      
   Basically, it's the bits that had the viewpoint swirling around and   
   around that did it. Keep in mind that actual Cinerama completely   
   filled the eyes with the projected image: the brain had no external   
   reference in its visual field and so tended to accept what it was   
   seeing as real. Without, BTW, "3d" (stereoscopic) images or special   
   glasses of any kind.   
      
   As to "awful old 3D movies", I should note that the /trailer/ to   
   /Creature from the Black Lagoon/ boasts of its being the first film   
   shot in 3D underwater. Also, /Dial M for Murder/ was apparently   
   Hitchcock's one forey into 3D[1]. Hence the hand pointing straight at   
   the audience in the scene on the poster. I don't know about you, but I   
   don't think either of those was "awful". Not that I want to see them   
   in 3D.   
      
   OTOH, I have never had any particular desire to see /The Blob/ in any   
   format.   
      
   [1] I use "3d" (stereoscopic) to distinguish this from 3D animation.   
   But for live-action films, "3D" is unambiguous.   
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   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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