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fallacy:

--- Quote ---It's not about greed, it's about survival. Movies have always competed with home entertainment. The tv comes out- movies go color. Color tv comes out - movies go widescreen. VCRs come out - studios improve sound quality. Part of he movie experience had always been about offering the consumer something they can't get at home and now they are competing with 55inch hi def screens hooked up to 7.1 sound. 3d is their latest attempt to stay relevant
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Avatar is solely the reason for the current 3D boom. 3D has been an ongoing thing in movies for the last 25 years.
scofthe7seas:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 06, 2011, 01:44:58 am ---It's not about greed, it's about survival. Movies have always competed with home entertainment. The TV comes out- movies go color. Color TV comes out - movies go widescreen. VCRs come out - studios improve sound quality. Part of he movie experience had always been about offering the consumer something they can't get at home and now they are competing with 55inch hi def screens hooked up to 7.1 sound. 3d is their latest attempt to stay relevant

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It absolutely is about greed. The price of making a 2d movie into 3d is literally about .5 - 1% of the cost of the average movie, and for this, an additional 3 dollars per movie ticket sold. The movie industry is not at all wanting in terms of customers. One of the only things not harmed by the recession is entertainment. People will go to the theatres regardless of gimmicks. They see a funny trailer, Seth Rogen, an animated panda, whatever, they're going. People with reasonable home theatres are in the minority. Sure, large HD TVs are becoming more prevalent, but do these people typically get the surround sound systems with them? No way. Not to mention a 55 inch TV still isn't anything like sitting in a large dark room with a 70 foot screen in front of you.
In my opinion, 3d is a new step in a (hopefully) evolutionary form of entertainment. There are people out there that KNOW how to make good movies, and as these people look into the tech, they're going to do some GREAT things with it. And these movies will be shining examples for other movies to come. Movies have to top one another, so people have to try harder, and that's just not going to happen with Green Hornet, or Crap of the Titans.

Mind you, this is coming from someone who still owns HD-DVDs, and 2 HD-DVD players with which to play them. They sit next to the larger collection of bluray discs I have in the cabinet. I'm not saying I know for sure how things will go, but it hasn't stopped me from watching my HD-DVDs.
Vigo:

--- Quote from: fallacy on July 06, 2011, 01:56:36 am ---
--- Quote ---It's not about greed, it's about survival. Movies have always competed with home entertainment. The tv comes out- movies go color. Color tv comes out - movies go widescreen. VCRs come out - studios improve sound quality. Part of he movie experience had always been about offering the consumer something they can't get at home and now they are competing with 55inch hi def screens hooked up to 7.1 sound. 3d is their latest attempt to stay relevant
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Avatar is solely the reason for the current 3D boom. 3D has been an ongoing thing in movies for the last 25 years.

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Avatar is a factor, but the boom came up before Avatar came out. The boom came about with the CG movie craze. It is stupidly easy to add 3D to a CG movie, and they cashed in as hard as they could on that. Here is a list of the big CG movies that came out in 3D prior to Avatar:

Monster House
The Ant Bully
Open Season
Meet The Robinsons
Bolt
Monsters vs Aliens
Battle for Terra
Up
Ice Age 3
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Toy Story in 3D (3D re-release)
Toy Story 2 in 3D (3D re-release)
A Christmas Carol


But yeah, thanks to avatar, every summer blockbuster now gets crappy fake 3D slapped on it.  :angry:
fallacy:

--- Quote ---Avatar is a factor, but the boom came up before Avatar came out. The boom came about with the CG movie craze. It is stupidly easy to add 3D to a CG movie, and they cashed in as hard as they could on that. Here is a list of the big CG movies that came out in 3D prior to Avatar:

Monster House
The Ant Bully
Open Season
Meet The Robinsons
Bolt
Monsters vs Aliens
Battle for Terra
Up
Ice Age 3
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Toy Story in 3D (3D re-release)
Toy Story 2 in 3D (3D re-release)
A Christmas Carol


But yeah, thanks to avatar, every summer blockbuster now gets crappy fake 3D slapped on it.  Angry!
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There has been a lot more 3D then that in the last 25 years. Hell I was there as a kid  in 1986 when Captain EO 3D came out in Disnyland.




Avatar is more then a factor. If Avatar never existed I can grantee you 3D tv’s would not exist today.


Vigo:
Haha, thanks for the MJ link. I forgot that even existed.  :D

I know there is a lot more 3D movies than my list. I was just pointing out how it became a standard with pretty much all CG movies by 2009. You may be right about the 3D TV thing as well, at least that every tv manufacturer announced they were making a 3D ready TV within months after Avatar's release. It is an inevitable step that they would be taking anyway, but Avatar put everything into motion. 3D video games would probably end up be the eventual driving force if not for avatar.
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