November 2010 its time for the first part of Harry Potter 7, complete in 3D!
Trailer:
Who of you is a Harry Potter fan, too?
I hated the books. The movies were meh.
Loved the first two movies and the fourth one. It was all downhill since then; letting the same guy who handled the lousy and supremely disappointing fifth movie have reign over the rest of the series is a travesty. I’m excited about the ride, though. Which, oddly enough, despite being similar to their groundbreaking Spider-Man ride, doesn’t use 3D glasses, like Spider-Man does.
Exactly what I was going to say 
I used to like the first Harry Potter movies, but the later ones are not that interesting and boring for some reason… At least for me
Went downhill since Prisoner of Azkaban (third) when the characters were wearing jeans through most of the movie. No robes? Really?
Haven’t even seen any movies since the fourth one…
my eyes don’t allow me to see 3D 
I can see the deep stuff but the stuff that is supposed to jump out at you I see as 3 or 4 ghost images beside each other…
I have waited for the new Harry since the day BEFORE I saw the last one… I am sooo excited about 3D… and yet I will be forced to go watch it in 2D while my wife will undoubtedly be in the cinema next to me… lol.
We have never gone to a cinema and not watched the same thing but in this instance I can’t imagine her NOT going her own way
So sad…
It’s not your eyes. It’s the method of projection. The full effect doesn’t work for everybody. The only film I’ve seen where this never happened to me was Avatar, which didn’t have stupid cheesy 3D. Fortunately, 3D in the home isn’t limited to cheap, crappy, one-size-fits-all glasses, that break the illusion for the two of us when the 3D is stretched to the limits. So you’ll be able to see it at home; I have boycotted movie theaters for years, other than 3D films, because they offer nothing that can’t be had superiorly and at a lower price, elsewhere. I recommend you do the same for all films if it’s so bad for you.
I’ve seen Avatar in 3D too, gotto admin that it was simply amazing 
You almost got me excited…
I have only ever tried 1 movie in 3D just to see what the fuss was about. I left there with a massive headache and great disappointment having learnt that I can’t ever watch 3D movies…
So then I heard that the Sony center is having a 3D TV display in the city so I went… Tried playing Wipeout 3D… The visuals looked all nice and all with the ship looking slightly transparent and foggy but not too bad. If I focus on the ship itself then it becomes clear but then I can’t see the rest of the level so I just ignored the fighter. The rest of the level looked fine… Just now and then I went through mines and saw this transparent mess fill up my entire vision. I was then later told those were mines that were supposed to fly out at me.
So I went and watched some GForce, that animation with the bear and the deer and some promo footage… Everything looked fine for the normal and deep stuff but the “popout” stuff was nothing but a mess for me…
So yeah… I had no choice but to conclude that it was in fact my eyes…
I have in past tried those red and blue glasses. No luck. Tried the cinema, no luck. Tried Sony’s $10 000 3DTV, no luck… the only 3D I have ever been able to see was those 3D pictures you stare at to see the “hidden” image.
So sad
You didn’t try it. If you didn’t calibrate it for yourself, then it won’t work. Are you talking about glasses-free, or with active shutter glasses? Glasses-free TVs don’t work for anybody.
The three TVs I tried all used their active shutter glasses tech. I asked the guy if there was an option to configure the shutters manually but he said that was not possible. It plays at a fantastic rate, sends out a signal, the glasses sync up and thus only the shutter that is supposed to see images is open at any one given time. Thus, no tweaking needed, no tweaking option available, it either works or you can’t see 3D.
That was basically what the salesperson told me. “Here, put this on. Hold on while I find you this piece… hold on, almost there… okay. check that. That should jump out to right in front of your face. Did you see that?”
“No, I just saw a lot of flickering messes in front of my face”
“Well, then I don’t know what to tell you. It seems you are just not able to see 3D”
It’s $10,000 in their pocket if they can wow me with the TV but the guy simply showed me that one 5-second clip and then decided it wasn’t even worth bothering to try and sell to me any more… That should tell you something… :shock:
Are you telling me that you have actually seen 3D TVs where they give you the option of tweaking the stuff?
3 TVs, 2 different times of the day, 2 different movie discs, 1 game. When I take the glasses off i see an entire screen filled with a ghost image. I put the glasses on and voila, a single image. Then the deer walks past a static background and I go “Wow, look at that!!!” For some or other reason the static background looks like it is drawn on a layer of it’s own. I can’t explain why it looks like it but it looks like it…
Then they run through the grass and my entire vision is filled with transparent gray lines… I look at the special agents chasing the rodents and they look all blurry at the edges… like an SD image on a large HD display…
So the rodents jump out of the screen and it looks like they are stuck on the TV’s lens… Then there is a crash and shrapnel is flying all over the place and my vision is cluttered with transparent gray lines all over the place…
Same thing in the Cinema. They were flying through thorny bushes. i got the fright of my life when all those stuff came flying right at me… And so fast, too… i just couldn’t make out what it was that was flying directly at me at that fantastic speed… it was transparent grey lines on top of black thorny bushes in the screen…
I figured I was one of few people in the world who cannot see 3D but based on your insistence that I should be able to see it i am wondering… Am I wrong? Is this supposed to work for 100% of people who still have the use of both their eyes? My circle of family and friends all tell me my one eye is stringer than the other one and that is why 3D is noD for me…
Is this a myth?
My mother insists that she can see 3D, but she uses a different prescription of contact lens in each eye. So I don’t believe her; I just think she has no idea what she’s looking at. Every time I give her my phone to look at, she looks like she’s going into a trance, and has to move it back and forth a lot, eventually holding it so far away from her head that I don’t believe she can see any details. Do you know for sure if you have different focusing for each eye? Or strong astigmatism in one but not the other? If so, I wouldn’t believe that 3D would work for you, but I’m no expert.
Before the cinema I had no indication of any problems with my eyes. I could never use the red/blue glasses but I thought that was just poor tech.
I suppose I will have to get my eyes tested to be sure
I figured out the problem from looking at your avatar. Your eyes are HUGE and pretty far apart.
Seriously, though, I assume that this all has to do with eye separation width; if your eyes are really close together or far apart, perhaps you’d never be able to fool your brain into thinking the two images were coming from your eyes. There was an exhibit in Boston that my friend told me about, which was a device that you put your head onto. One viewport for each eye, and the footage shown in each was from a separate camera. However, while the cameras began so close together that it was a 3D illusion, they would alter their distance from each other. At one point, the cameras would separate to either side of a tree, making your brain perceive something like traveling directly through the tree while your head got bigger.
Luckily for you unless 3D takes a gargantuan leap forward in technology anytime soon it will still be just a gimmick.
I watched Avatar in 3D at the cinema and thought it was neat for the first minute and weak for the last 160 minutes, and this was the poster boy for 3D movies, entirely filmed in 3D, not in 2D and then made 3D in post process like Harry Potter and every other movie.
I then watched Avatar in 2D at home on blu-ray and thought it was ten times better. The colors were much crisper, the image was much sharper, it wasn’t tiring on the eyes, you could focus where you wanted to and not where the movie told you to - simply a much better experience.
I understand it must be frustrating to be disappointed by your eyes and not the 3D effect itself, but I assure you you’re not missing out on much. 
And your wife is a douche if she goes to another showing to see it in 3D instead of watch it in 2D with you. 
did someone say meh?
Not an issue with active shutter glasses, only el cheapo theater ones.
I don’t understand what you’re saying here. 2D non-CG forces you to focus where the director says, due to shallow depth of field.
Nice to know about the glasses because that really bothered me. I took them off for a few seconds at the movie and it was like removing a pair of sunglasses.
As for focusing on the 2d movie you can still focus your eyes on the out of focus parts of the image because it’s just a 2d plane and you know where to focus.
If you try to focus on something not in focus in 3d it will make you go bonkers, at least I experience it that way.
So when I’m watching the main characters face and then the director decides that the little seed flying in front of him requires focus I am unable to continue watching the main character.
But 3D at the cinema is where I’ll experience it anyway so even if it’s better at home it’s at the cinema I’ll choose to ignore it until it is improved. I love going to the cinema because the sound is so massive and the image so big. I would have to dedicate my cellar as a movie room if I were to get something like that at home and I won’t bother with that.
I’ve got a 60" TV that I sit no more than 10 feet from, I use a set of active full-range monitors for surround sound (not lame bookshelf speakers that necessitate a subwoofer), and I’ve got a bunch of self-made bass traps (acoustic treatment) around my room. I also have a distinct lack of crying babies, hooters and hollerers, and I have a pause button so I can pee.
Theater’s got nothing to offer me. The whole setup was only around $2000, also.