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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Mr.T  wrote:   
   >"Scott Dorsey"  wrote in message   
   >news:icoh5v$4ip$1@panix2.panix.com...   
   >> You will occasionally still see those old films shown in proper polarized   
   >> 3-D now and then.  I work at a science fiction convention up in Boston   
   >where   
   >> a couple years ago we ran It Came From Outer Space in proper 3-D.  It was   
   >> a very different thing than the anaglyph and folks in the audience were   
   >amazed   
   >> by it.   
   >   
   >Right, but not amazing enough for it to become common place in over 50   
   >years. Many "improvements" have been tried with films over the last 50 years   
   >or so. Many were pretty amazing as a novelty. (the whole point after all)   
   >But for a regular movie, not much has become "must have" technology for the   
   >masses since the widespread change from monochrome to color film.   
      
   Much of this is because it is very, very expensive to show this stuff   
   properly.  It requires a lot more equipment and people in the booth and   
   it requires very careful setup and alignment before each new film (and   
   some amount of fiddling even between reels).   
      
   In order to become commonplace, the technology has to become very cheap to   
   make and to use, and that is currently becoming the case with the new digital   
   3D systems.  It certainly wasn't the case back in the fifties.   
      
   >I still remember when we had a proper "Cinerama" theatre, with the first   
   >films using 3 projectors. The wrap around screen was pretty "amazing" at the   
   >time. But even the invention of single camera/projector Cinerama didn't save   
   >what was an unnecessary idea for most films. It did make "2001" pretty   
   >spectacular though, and it has never seemed the same on a normal screen   
   >unfortunately, for those of us who remember.   
      
   People will never opt for a better quality presentation or format over a   
   less expensive one.  Why do you think DVD-A and DSD failed?  And Elcaset,   
   and half-track 1/4" for home use?   
   --scott   
      
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