A use for those 3D glasses

[jducoeur]

I was just reminded (by an article on Superbowl ads and their prices) that one of the highlights of this year's Superbowl Advertising Funfest is going to be a 90-second, 3D commercial for Monsters vs. Aliens. While I do have a mild opinion about the game itself -- I'm rooting for the Cardinals, both because they are clearly the underdogs and because they're not the Steelers -- it's largely about the ads this year, and this looks like the biggest of the bunch.

What I don't know for sure is which *kind* of 3D they're using. Can they do polarized 3D over ordinary TV? Does anybody know if the ad is going to be red/green or polarized? If it's traditional red/green, I'm sure I have a pair of glasses or two sitting around. (If nothing else, there's a pair stapled into last week's remarkably bad Final Crisis: Superman 3D comic that I can probably bear to remove...)

Comments

[dsrtao]

You can't control polarization over NTSC or ATSC. For one thing, all those LCD screens depend on polarizing light themselves to block it...

[jducoeur]

I suspected as much, but wasn't going to assume...

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

Go Steelers! Beat the Cardinals! (Sorry, you can take the girl out of Pittsburgh, but...)

[jducoeur]

Fair enough -- I can certainly understand home town sentiment. But the Steelers are the team I think of as the Pats' *real* rival: yeah, the Jets have the whole NY/Boston thing going on, but I think of the Steelers as the really *tough* team we have to get through on the way to the Superbowl.

(And partly, I just don't like Bill Cowher, and still associate the team with him...)

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

There were free tie-in 3D glasses at the Stop & Shop. These are the ones
http://www.3dglassesonline.com/colorcode.html
They're dark blue on one one side and amber on the other.

[jducoeur]

Well, nertz -- I suspect my old-fashioned ones won't work. Well, maybe I'll get past S&S before game day...

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Saw them this morning at Market Basket, too.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

If you're headed to S&S today I have a little list for you....

[laurion]

I'd bet on red/(green/cyan/blue), although I recall Saturday morning cartoons in the late 80's and early 90's experimenting with parallax motion and glasses that were dark/light to heighten the effect. As pointed out, there's no place in an NTSC/ATSC signal for polarity info, not that televisions are built for it. The experiments with parallax at least made the shows decently watchable to anyone not wearing glasses.

[ladymacgregor.livejournal.com]

The ad I really want to see this year is the SoBe ad. It's the tea drink with the lizards. Evidently last year they had Naomi Campbell dance with the lizards, and not many people remember that. This year, though, they've got Matt Light dancing with the lizards, along with Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and Giants defensive lineman Justin Tuck. All of them in skin-tight white leotards.

I can't wait.