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Re: Gravity is GOOD. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/11/2013, 7:33pm PST
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

I can't remember the last time I had such a good time at the theater. The first movie that is better in 3D than not?
ICJ

I'll never know. The worst thing about this, I guess, is that I can never really know how 3D affects the experience of watching something. For me, everything is basically the same; I don't really have depth perception. Some people claim that television looks different from the real world. Being as I'm blind in my right eye, I can't see 3D so I can't tell.

In fact, because I don't have depth perception - I do a good job of faking it, I suppose - that I actually have to have an eye exam to get my drivers' license in Maryland. I can't pass the vision test because I can't read the eye chart with my weak eye, I have to have an optometrist sign off on a vision test that confirms that I do have the requisite amount of peripheral vision. I note that when I first got my license in California in 1978 I also had to have an optometrist sign off on it for that reason. Also, my license has a restriction. It's really meaningless now since all vehicles have one, but I am required under Maryland law to have a right-side mirror on a vehicle in order to drive it. While California required I have an eye exam because I fail the question on whether I have a physical problem related to remaining conscious (like having epilepsy), having a full field of vision or certain other restrictions, nothing was indicated on my license. When I moved to Virginia, I indicated that I did have a vision problem, but they neither required me to have any tests nor put any restrictions on my license (this was before 9/11/2001 so the rules may have been more lax). When I moved back to Maryland and had to change my license over I had to get an eye exam again.

I note there are some things I could notice. My mother had perfectly good vision, and I don't know if other people could see it and she couldn't (or maybe just said she couldn't), but there was one thing about TV that both my brother and I could notice. We could tell the difference between a live broadcast and something on film. Live - or videotape - programs look different from those on film. Just as digital recordings look different from digital copies of films. Film has a different look, a bit of a "flatness" that live or digital transmissions don't have.

But I'll never know. I've never seen in 3D do I don't have a reference to determine how much difference it is.
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Gravity is GOOD. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/14/2013, 7:31am PDT NEW
    Re: Gravity is GOOD. by E. L. Koba 10/14/2013, 11:51pm PDT NEW
    Yeah this was good. by fabio 11/03/2013, 7:41pm PST NEW
        Re: Yeah this was good. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/03/2013, 9:35pm PST NEW
    Gravity was the first movie in a long time... by blackwater 11/06/2013, 2:31am PST NEW
        Re: Gravity was the first movie in a long time... by Mysterio 11/06/2013, 7:36am PST NEW
            Talking about how I'm always right. I like this! by fabio 11/07/2013, 2:45pm PST NEW
    Re: Gravity is GOOD. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/11/2013, 7:33pm PST NEW
        film (used to be) 24 FPS, TV was about twice that by blackwater 11/12/2013, 10:55pm PST NEW
            U.S. tv is/was 30 fps by viDEEooo! 11/12/2013, 11:16pm PST NEW
                Yeah. Games only managed 60 frames/second by leaving every second line blank. NT by Jerry Whorebach 11/13/2013, 1:30am PST NEW
                My point was more that really fast motion looks better on TV than movie by blackwater 11/13/2013, 9:14pm PST NEW
                    Now you're mixing up NTSC with PAL! NT by viDEEooo! 11/14/2013, 5:53am PST NEW
                        All I remembered was that ours was the shitter standard, but it looks like that NT by was because of # of lines, not FPS 11/14/2013, 9:35pm PST NEW
                    North American TVs refresh 60 times/second regardless of what you feed them. by Jerry Whorebach 11/14/2013, 10:29am PST NEW
                        damn. you're right. by blackwater 11/14/2013, 9:33pm PST NEW
                            That .03 is pretty important when you're trying to sync things. by FoK 11/15/2013, 3:59am PST NEW
                                The 29.97 is a relic from when they first switched to color by viDEEooo! 11/15/2013, 6:15am PST NEW
                                    Some 60i video games offer an interesting exception. by Jerry Whorebach 11/15/2013, 2:51pm PST NEW
                    Re: My point was more that really fast motion looks better on TV than movie by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/15/2013, 9:12am PST NEW
            Re: film (used to be) 24 FPS, TV was about twice that by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/15/2013, 9:03am PST NEW
                Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. NT by Autism Detectotron 9000 Mk 3 11/15/2013, 10:14am PST NEW
                Hahaha, you're a fucking retard NT by Eurotrash 11/15/2013, 12:19pm PST NEW
                    And you're an insulting twit, You'reAllTrash, what else is new? NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/06/2013, 7:10am PST NEW
                Can't see anything in one eye, can't see sarcasm in the other. NT by This joke is kinda sad. 12/23/2013, 1:01am PST NEW
    Here is a terrible review of Gravity. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/29/2013, 11:05pm PST NEW
        Review Summary: Gravity was just too heavy for him! NT by TDarcos' employer 12/31/2013, 11:28am PST NEW
    Absolutely agreed. by skip 12/07/2013, 8:46am PST NEW
 
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