Channel 4 3D Week

aidan_walsh

Off to your local Sainsbury's to pick up your glasses folks, cos Channel 4 is going 3D for one week only. Well, for a few hours anyway.

Derren Brown, The Queen, 2 horror flicks (3 if you include the Miley Cyrus concert with that) and a clip show all with a glorious extra dimension.

NothingMan

Sainsbury's? Are there any sainsbury's in Ireland?

mike65

Have to head to a 3D cinema and sneak a pair out (or buy some)

Or make your own

aidan_walsh

NothingMan wrote: »

Sainsbury's? Are there any sainsbury's in Ireland?

Not that I know of, but thats whose working with 4 to give out the free glasses. No Irish partner that I know of, not that I would expect one.

zAbbo

mike65 wrote: »

Have to head to a 3D cinema and sneak a pair out (or buy some)

They probably wouldn't work.

I think this is the old red & blue lens from the 80's.

Probably use quality street wrappers.

NothingMan

mike65 wrote: »

Have to head to a 3D cinema and sneak a pair out (or buy some)

Or make your own

Nah a 3D cinema uses a different and much more advanced form of 3D projection so the glasses are completely different. I would imagine for the TV you would need the old school red and blue glasses.

Damn I had a pair when I had a life size 3D picture of Jet from the gladiators! Now to go back in time 12 years.

Akrasia

NothingMan wrote: »

Nah a 3D cinema uses a different and much more advanced form of 3D projection so the glasses are completely different. I would imagine for the TV you would need the old school red and blue glasses.

Damn I had a pair when I had a life size 3D picture of Jet from the gladiators! Now to go back in time 12 years.

They used to come free in the RTE guide back in the 80s... problem was you only got one pair so you had to fight with the brothers to get a bit of 3d action.. unless you were friendly with the newsagent

Richard Dower

Anyone remember Jaws 3D on RTE and the glasses?

WindSock

Will my specs from 'Up in 3D' work?

zAbbo

WindSock wrote: »

Will my specs from 'Up in 3D' work?

Nope, need these

fifth

No chance of getting those over here ?

Mossy Monk

IIRC the kind of 3D that used those glasses was bollocks.

aidan_walsh

Mossy Monk wrote: »

IIRC the kind of 3D that used those glasses was bollocks.

It would be much the same thing to cross your eyes and squint.

hotshots85

A studio in Cork does the blue and amber ones, its on their site that they'l send you a pair, got this email work

I’m not sure if you heard but Channel 4 are doing 3d TV all next week BUT us down here in the republic cannot get hold of the free glasses they are giving away in Sainsbury's.

Some old ones won’t work either cos they have to be Blue and Amber, I emailed this bloke in Cork who runs a 3D imaging workshop, he is the only one in Ireland I know of, He also appeared on Dragons Den with his other inventions. He posted me a set of 3d glasses that will work , all I did was send my postal address to info@lenticular.ie, his name is Jon Mitton.

he emailed me his details (below) to pass on, thought it would be good to share with anyone else wanting to get in on the fun next week,

SO PASS IT ON TO ANYONE ELSE LOOKING FOR 3D IN THE LIVING ROOM

http://www.lenticular.ie
http://www.mitton3d.com

From the website 

Lenticular

Innovation is at the core of Lenticular.ie. We pride ourselves in bringing our customers not only 20 years of knowledge and experience in 3D imaging, but a full consultation and creative design service, from conception through to realisation, creating unique, coherent ways in which to incorporate 3D imaging into your marketing campaigns and product development.

Size does not matter! Whatever size your company, whether you want 1 or 100,000,000 copies we can scale our output to your needs.

We offer a 24 hour turn around on lenticular samples and have a full consultation service to help you understand any of our products and services.

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We can provide lenticular photography, display holograms, holographic and lenticular packaging, full colour, animated holographic stickers, LED dimensional imaging, laser etched crystal glass blocks, holographic and lenticular portraits, and 3D computer animation as well as a full creative design service.

“Jon Mitton MA,RCA
Lenticular.ie
Gort A Grenane
Castle Freke
Clonakilty
West Cork
Ireland

+ 353 (0) 23 88 31030
+ 353 (0) 87 740 5199
info@lenticular.ie “

I emailed him too, based in Cork m really nice fella and was ont he Dragons Den and everything!

Elmo

Richard Dower wrote: »

Anyone remember Jaws 3D on RTE and the glasses?

Network 2's first Halloween, glasses in the local newsagents.

Not that I know of, but thats whose working with 4 to give out the free glasses. No Irish partner that I know of, not that I would expect one.

Irish opt outs but no 3D

Vim Fuego

The Queen in 3D? Er....interesting choice there

phasers

Vim Fuego wrote: »

The Queen in 3D? Er....interesting choice there

AAH SHE'S COMING RIGHT AT ME

Richard Dower

phasers wrote: »

AAH SHE'S COMING RIGHT AT ME

Eww!

hotshots85

The email I posted earlier downst work, the fella only supplies the red gree ones and not blue\cyan like is needed for CH4

Dman001

Nothing but a marketing gimmick this. Just like that 3D episode of Chuck. Maybe I had the wrong 3D glasses, but the show looked no different in 3D

Sir Gallagher

Lets all get a coach up to Newry get the glasses and a load of cheap drink in sainsburys and have a night in mine watching her madge in glorious 3D.

phasers

Will the shows look fuzzy or anything without the 3d glasses like films do in the cinema?

Capt'n Midnight

They wont be as fuzzy as with the older cyan/red method

you will need dark blue / amber glasses , but I can't find anything online that says what exact colours/spectrum you need so can't say what sweet wapers you need,

Elmo

Can you use the ones you get from the cinema?

Capt'n Midnight

Elmo wrote: »

Can you use the ones you get from the cinema?

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

you will need dark blue / amber glasses

NO,

the cinema ones are usually polarised instead of being coloured

Richard Dower

I CAN'T FIND GLASSES!!!!

humanji

Can you not just go outside and look around? Everything's in 3D and you don't need coloured glasses.

danniemcq

It's dryer inside

funkyjebus

Folks, dont bother, this is anaglyph technology, which is over 50 years old. Its just a gimmack and will ony give you a headache. It doesn't even work at all if your colour setting are not perfect on your tv.

The 3D that is in the cinema is a brand new and totally different working technology and cannot be compared at all to anaglyph 3d.

The classes needed for C4 crap 3D week are red & blue (cyan), while the glasses your get in the cinema are clear polarization glasses.

Its near impossible to get the Anaglph glasses in Ireland (by themselves)and you will be nothing but disappointed when you see the image.

chalkitdown

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

They wont be as fuzzy as with the older cyan/red method

you will need dark blue / amber glasses , but I can't find anything online that says what exact colours/spectrum you need so can't say what sweet wapers you need,

I have a couple of filter swatch books here, has anyone found out which exact colours you need? Already made a couple of blue peter frames from a cornflakes box, just need to know what the proper colours are, anyone know?

chalkitdown

Bump!

Capt'n Midnight

funkyjebus wrote: »

Folks, dont bother, this is anaglyph technology, which is over 50 years old. Its just a gimmack and will ony give you a headache. It doesn't even work at all if your colour setting are not perfect on your tv.

The 3D that is in the cinema is a brand new and totally different working technology and cannot be compared at all to anaglyph 3d.

The classes needed for C4 crap 3D week are red & blue (cyan), while the glasses your get in the cinema are clear polarization glasses..

The whole point of using DARK blue / amber instead of red/cyan is to reduce the headaches

and besides it's just a bit of fun

brenh

As the Captain says, it's a bit of fun. Some of the 3D effects on the Queen program were quite good, particularly the closeups, as were some of the card trick effects on the Darren Brown show. I have to say though, that the novelty wears off very quickly. I had no problem getting four pairs of blue/amber Channel 4 glasses on eBay last week. They're still to be found there.

Elmo

brenh wrote: »

As the Captain says, it's a bit of fun. Some of the 3D effects on the Queen program were quite good, particularly the closeups, as were some of the card trick effects on the Darren Brown show. I have to say though, that the novelty wears off very quickly. I had no problem getting four pairs of blue/amber Channel 4 glasses on eBay last week. They're still to be found there.

Doesn't it devalue 3D? Especially as 3D Ready (full) TVs will be on sale? Funny? This is a serious matter