Last night, I watched my first movie using Dolby 3D technology.
Verdict: Poor.
It may have been the movie itself (a small foreign film) or the equipment (though the screening was held at the AMPAS Pickford Center’s Linwood Theater).
Few issues:
- Though the left / right lenses are supposed to filter out wavelengths of red (or blue or green) light that are very close to each other, in reality there was a noticeable tint to the glasses. This is a big nono…
- It appeared to me that, again because the exact hue of the color was not perfectly matched in the left and right eye, there was some amount of disassociation between the left and right image. In other words, the hue was a touch different, so my eye did not interpret it as a left eye and right eye view of the same object.
- The image was dim. This is probably an equipment thing. But it was very very dark, and this on a relatively small screen.
- The glasses have small lenses. This makes it really obvious you are looking through glasses. The wide paddle on the side cut out your peripheral vision,which was annoying, and the vertical length of the lenses were so short, I couldn’t lean back and look down my nose at the screen. You can see how small the lens is here:
Overall verdict: RealD is the way to go.
Tags: Dolby, RealD, Theatrical
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