Action, Porn Film Industries Excited For 3D Developments

In fact, demos of live 3-D have been quietly gaining buzz around the TV world: Last year both the NBA All-Star game and a Dallas Mavericks game were broadcast on a closed-circuit feed using equipment from Pace, the company that Cameron helped start and whose equipment he uses to shoot in 3-D. At the International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam in September, Katzenberg is scheduled to deliver a keynote in 3-D live from Los Angeles via satellite and 3ality gear. "This is similar to where we were in 2003 with high-def," Chuck Pagano, executive VP of technology at ESPN, told me. "This is a big win for TV in general, because it is jaw-dropping when you see a football or basketball game in 3-D." (See correction.)

Indeed, one thing the first wave of Hollywood 3-D blockbusters clarified is that 3-D can't make a crummy movie good, but it might make a good movie better. With TV - particularly live TV - it enhances already proven programming. (The porn industry is also drooling over this, for obvious reasons.) As with all newfangled gadgetry, the big question is which standards will prevail: There are already several "3-D ready" displays on the market from the likes of Samsung and JVC, requiring different types of image coding and viewing glasses. In Japan one broadcaster is airing an hour a day in 3-D, and Philips (PHG) has a 3-D monitor for sale that does not require glasses but is, for now, too pricey for mass rollout. "I think the glasses are a necessary evil for the next few years," says Wendy Aylsworth, a Warner Bros. executive who is heading an entertainment industry group's efforts to set technical standards. Still, expect more and better 3-D TVs to be the buzz at next January's consumer electronics show.

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[richardgordon]

Porn in 3D? I can't wait!

[NoSillyName]

I don't know about that, but I remember reading how terrified the porn people were/are about HD.

[Luca]

And the 'point' of this story is...?

[TheOldSchool]

Forget about 3-D porn!

What I'd like to see in 3-D is that new Microsoft ad featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.

Those churros!

Whooah!

Hey! .... Watch where you're pointing those things!

[leftLibertarian]

I saw a 3D porno movie in 1986 in San Francisco. I think it was called "Coming at you." No lie.

[wndrwrthg]

Can "holygrams" be far behind?

[darthdarcy]

I prefer my naked women 2 dimensional..!

[bitabingbitabangbitaboom]

I always wanted to see my daughter in 3D

[Paulist]

The on-line porn industry would be doing a public service if they voluntarily set themselves apart on the internet with a unique suffix on their url, such as .xxx, so children would not reach porn sites by mistake.

[TheOldSchool]

It may be a nice theory, but in actuality it won't work without implementing numerous draconian measures that most internet users would find distasteful.

A more reasonable solution would be to require all non-porn websites to append their urls with another dot followed by NotXXX. For example: AOL.Com.NotXXX.

For sites that are mostly clean, but occasionally get a little ribald, this can easily clarified by adding the following caveat: .NotUsuallyXXX, as in: RNC.COM.NotUsuallyXXX.

Sure, typing the extra letters may be, at times, tiring, but it's a good kind of tired. And once you're finished, you can just lay back in bed and enjoy a smoke before drifting off to sleep.

[NoSillyName]

LOL.

[smallfish]

the internet has been interlaced with porn for years now and the world still goes on.
i don't understand this desire to try and put the genie back into a bottle.
sound the alarms.......sex is out there.

[Triangle1]

Sounds like everything a guy might watch on TV would be better in 3D. http://mespace.wordpress.com

[brokenarrow]

Nice commercial.

[brokenarrow]

Before my daugher or granddaughters even take a second look at a guy, they will be versed to look for signs of anti-social behavior.


Young kids who get a hold of this stuff get a very unhealthy worldview, and some can't relate in a wholesome, real relationship. Please watch your sons, it's not cute, it's very damaging to his psyche.

Look at the patterns of sociopaths like Ted Bundy, etc., they all have a warped sense of sexuality, and a penchent for porn.

I'm serious here. A lot of kids have access to stuff way too dark and disturbing. The days of hiding a Victoria's Secret Catalog under his mattress are gone.

Fathers, best look out for your sons. They are being corrupted, in the very darkest sense of the word, right under your own roof.

[JeanPaulSatire]

A more main-stream target for the technology might be sports broadcasts. Can you imagine football in 3-D?

[KillTheMessenger]

Yes, I can... obese people stuffed with potato chips and beer throwing up over thousands of cheap couches because their poorly developed and drugged visual senses can not get the 3d movement of the ball and the players coordinated, leading to severe nausea.

:-)

[KillTheMessenger]

Porn is about the best application one can think of in conjunction with real 3d because it supports the wish of the voyeur to look at a sexual act from "any angle" without being seen himself.

For the same reason, artistically speaking real 3d (i.e. the ability of the user to change his viewpoint and walk e.g. behind the scene) takes away the director/cinematographer's freedom to select one particularly pleasing 2d view of a 3d scene for the viewer. As any painter/photographer can tell you, even slight changes in a scene can make or break the composition and what looked exciting from one angle looks boring or even poor from another.

Fake 3d, on the other hand, looks about the same way as great-great-grandpa's 3d postcards looked a hundred and fifty years ago. And we are all constantly looking at those antiques, being fascinated by the enormous quality binocular vision adds to flat pictures, right?

[CitizenFace]

Anything that's prerecorded with a single camera, even a binocular camera, would only present 3d images in ONE angle, not multiple. Everyone in the room sees the same thing, no matter where they're sitting, because the camera only captures one angle at a time (front, side, whatever).

I see greater potential of 3d tech in video games, using head tracking software to determine where the user is positioned. Because video games are computer generated, the user really could view a scene from any angle.

[KillTheMessenger]

That's not real 3d, then. And it has been tried without success for 150 years. What makes us think this time it will catch on?

[cuckoopants73]

the U23D was the BEST of all of them. i wanted to get up and dance in the theater... what a brilliant way to showcase the new 3D tech...