Re: ping Arthur

On 2/15/2025 8:51 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 2/15/25 12:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
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The Facebook won’t let me tag you with this. 3-D Blu-ray “The Phantom
planet”
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dvstudios/3d-blu-ray-the-phantom-planet-sci-fi-classic-now-in-3-d

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 From IMDb:
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"After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its
surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere."
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That sounds really dumb - Do I even want to see this in 3-D?!!
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 I thought Arthur would like to see that anybody was even attempting to make
a 3-D Blu-ray in 2025.
 

3D isn't popular in the U.S. but it's still being manufactured and sold around the world.  I just ordered some imports the other day from a site in Germany that has a bunch of U.S. movies in 3D with English Dolby Atmos audio.
https://turbine-shop.de/KATALOG/TECHNIK/Blu-ray-3D/
I was particularly interested in Friday the 13th part 3 3D.  I actually already own that in 3D, but there were some issues with the 3D picture that they fixed for this new release.  They didn't upgrade the audio, but fixing the 3D made it worth the double dip.
"Previous releases of the film have struggled with significant distortions. Such errors in 3D rendering do not necessarily lead to a complete loss of the 3D effect, as the brain has a certain tolerance. But looking at faulty 3D images is exhausting and causes constant headaches.
Turbine has therefore had extensive corrections and improvements based on the existing 3D master for the release on Blu-ray 3D. This is how the image was adjusted in the parameters of horizontal position, vertical position, zoom, rotation, keystone X, keystone Y and trim. These optimizations were performed for both eyes together and for the left and right separately, i.e. 21 parameters per image setting in total. The adjustment of the image parameters took place in stages when the camera was still. If the image was moving in a scene through camera rotation, angle change or zooming, these 21 parameters had to be adjusted for each position. The parameters were initially determined automatically with the help of a 3D correction system and then fine-tuned manually."
http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2025/02/new-upgraded-3-d-blu-ray-of-friday-13th.html
Imports are also a good way to get movies that for whatever reason were never released in the U.S.  Since I was on the site anyway I was taking a look at what else they had in their catalog and found "An American Werewolf in Paris" in 4K.  That never even had a blu-ray release in the U.S.  I know it's not a great movie or anything, but I never owned it in any format, and the last time I tried to watch was a horrible experience on one of those off brand streaming sites.
Although I have a region free player, a lot of imports are region free, and 4K discs are (almost always) region free.