posted 03-22-2010 02:11 AM                   

quote: Mike Blakesley

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My booker told me he heard that a scratch on the Tech 3-D will look like it's "right in your face" ... true?

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Your booker is loving the move to digital

A scratch in one part of the half-frame but not in the other will look like a normal scratch except you will only see it with one eye and, thus, look unconfortably weird and to some, yes, it can be kind-of-in-your-face.

All the problems that film may present (some of which may be present in digital too, btw) such as uneven illumination, lamp flicker, film weave, screen hotspotting, scratches and dirt, etc, usually become much worse in 3D.

Some of the digital systems spare with a few of those problems, but adds its own set (temporal disparities, lower resolution than film, etc). Remember film can store 4K+ in a 4-perf standard space and that means it can store FOUR full resolution 2K images (while needing only 2). So even if the sides are not used for 1.85 material, it still has MORE potential resolution than your most usual 2K 3D digital material which is compressed on 100GB (twice the compression ratio than 2D) and color-resolution subsampled (half the color resolution of digital 2D shows) and bit-depth limited (1/4 the amount of colors compared to 2D shows).

Film 3D and digital 3D have each SMALL advantages and SMALL dissadvantages but they both do the EXACT same thing and, thus, when done properly, produce the EXACT same result. Just like a 2D movie can look (pretty much) exactly the same on a digital presentation than in a film one, so can a 3D one. Just the same.

About film "done properly", whether 3D or 2D, ... well, that's material for another topic ...

Same with digital vs film debate of which is "better" (2D or 3D, it doesn't matter, it's the same).

posted 03-22-2010 02:24 AM                       

quote: Ian Parfrey

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Hopefully a part of the Technicolor assurance scheme will include the use of film cleaners and Film Guard.

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posted 03-22-2010 10:53 AM                    

quote: Mike Blakesley

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My booker told me he heard that a scratch on the Tech 3-D will look like it's "right in your face" ... true?

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quote: Stephen Furley

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Since it is an 'under and over' format then I would have thought that if we're talking about a simple vertical scratch then it should appear in exactly the same place in both images, and therefore should appear in the plane of the screen.

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posted 03-23-2010 03:00 AM                       

quote: Louis Bornwasser

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Yes, it will work, but you leave behind many advantages that Tech has patented.

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