While glasses-less 3DTV is already winging its strategy to Japan within the shape of Toshiba’s two tiny TVs , James Cameron reckons it’s ” eight to ten years away” until it autostereoscopic 3DTV properly takes off. For now, we’re stuck with glasses.
He spoke about 3DTV at the Blu-Con 2010 conference today, and shared some interesting details on the extended version of Avatar-apparently those extra 16 minutes ended up costing Fox $1 million per minute, that is the rationale they chose to re-release it in cinemas, to be able to attempt to recoup a number of the costs.
Cameron has previously harped on about how the industry must shoot more in 3D, instead of applying it post-production like the studio of Clash of the Titans, and the newest Harry Potter movie did-or attempted , within the latter’s case.
” You spot another stumble with the newest Harry Potter movie from an identical studio making an identical mistake – except really getting spanked for it now because they didn’t get the film done.
They announced it in 3D – threw a number of money seeking to convert it to 3D in post-production and it simply didn’t work. They only didn’t get it done.”
Cameron’s signed on to do Avatar 2 and 3 , which he’ll begin working on next year. While I do feel that specific story’s been flogged to death, Avatar was among the best example of 3D. While I’m not personally keen on the format I do await the day once I don’t ought to squeeze a pair of 3D glasses onto the pinnacle of the glasses I already wear-nor fork out over $100 per pair of glasses. [ BBC and TechRadar ]
Roku remote for iOS updated, easier navigation features in tow
Hack enables fast refresh mode on Nook Simple Touch (video)



