Viewpoint
quicker with this new… lab thing. Whether it
My View:
has a place in the home is another question –
you’d need a really big screen to appreciate all
the detail. Or maybe, as Sass Jahani began to
suggest last month, we’ll have SHV display
glasses. Brilliant.
Which is a good cue to mention another
revolution that’s rapidly gaining traction - 3D -
or actually stereoscopic 3D that’s shot with two
Bigger, wider,
cameras (left eye and right eye) and runs two
channels of digital HD/cinema to give pictures
depth. The quality, consistency and reliability
of digital HD and digital cinema mean that the
deeper
pain of trying to keep two film projectors in
sync, colour matched and perfectly registered
on the screen are swept away as digital 3D can
be shown through one projector with sequential
By BOB PANK.
required a very big left and right channels. Now everyone from the
screen. The trade village ‘flea pit’ film club upwards could
he penny didn’t drop about HDTV show presentations probably present excellent 3D movies - without
T
until it finally arrived. High I’ve seen are the headaches.
definition… who really needs a amazing and there The movie ‘Journey to the Centre of the
sharper picture with lots more detail will be several at Earth’ was shot in 3D and it gets great credit
in it? The answer was nobody and now we all IBC. Sit in the for the technical results. Shooting 3D involves
know that it’s not about sharper pictures but front row, if you far more than simply strapping two cameras
bigger pictures that still look good on today’s can, and enjoy side-by-side. Today there are computer-
much bigger panel screens. The term HDTV is looking right controlled rigs to allow zooms (all the old 3D
confusing. It should have been BTV – Big around the scene. celluloid films only used fixed lenses) and
Television. But then having a bigger screen at It is very adjustments of interocular distant (between the
the far end of a big room means we will miss immersive.
Bob Pank.
cameras/eyes) to allow better 3D perception on
much of the detail. Of course it’s all about the NHK said, I think less than two years ago long shots. Then there’s post - and more fun
angle the picture occupies in our eyes. when UHD first appeared, that this was just a and games, an associated 3D vocabulary
Got it! Yes now we can see more detailed ‘lab thing’ but, at IBC, it’s obviously already including delightful words such as
pictures on bigger screens that are only as far escaped, changed it’s name - amazingly not to ‘lilliputianism’, and new layers of grammar for
away as the old PAL screen was. Now we are VBTV but to Super Hi-Vision (SHV) - and the shooting and editing. But now it’s all very
watching TV in a different way. Instead of eyes BBC and RAI are getting involved. Look up doable from scene to screen. Yet there are still
glued to the middle of a small screen, they look ‘news’ on
www.ibc.org for more. Suddenly what Jeremiahs saying ‘It’ll never work’ and ‘It won’t
around the detail of a bigger and wider (16:9) took HDTV over 15 years might happen a lot catch on’. But the acid test is the audience
picture generally shot a bit zoomed out from reaction. They love it. 3D movies have had
the old PAL 4:3 days. We are enjoying a new
The penny didn’t drop
around three to four times the audience per
viewing experience which is much more
about HDTV until it finally
theatre of the same show in 2D.
engaging than PAL ever was (though well shot
SD video on a 32-inch LCD looks cracking -
arrived. High definition…
Finally there are those glasses. These are not
the red-and-green floppy ones but rather cooler
especially if its been downconverted from HD!).
who really needs a
neutral dark glasses. Personally I don’t mind
Now we have HD, well, some of us do, with
sharper picture with lots
them but maybe they induce bad vibes by their
per-viewer costs close to those of SD/PAL a few
more detail in it? The
association with the old headache-inducing 3D
years ago - bigger screen and all. At last the
constant HD development, which started back
answer was nobody and
films. At IBC2007 I stumbled across a Samsung
3D ‘with glasses’ TV set; 3D TV for home
in the early 80’s, can stop. There’s MPEG4, or
now we all know that it’s
viewing delivered by DVD in HD. Of course it
H.264 or is it AVC(?) compression that can not about sharper would be better not to have glasses. Inition
squeeze HDTV down not such a very wide
pictures but bigger
(www.inition.com) is one company that
digital pipe and it’s a done deal. But even
pictures that still look
produces TV screens for without-glasses 3D
before the HD dust has settled those people at viewing. Generally ‘without-glasses’ 3D TV
NHK, that’s right, the same group that came up
good on today’s much
screens offer a number of ‘zones’ around the
with the original HD idea, have something even bigger panel screens. The display where you can see the 3D effect, but
bigger: UHD, Ultra High Definition television,
term HDTV is confusing. It
labs are buzzing with research to create ‘multi-
although this should really be called VBTV
should have been BTV –
user’ 3D TV displays (eg the Muted project).
(Very…). NHK has wisely realised that the new Perhaps another solution would be Jahani’s
wonder format, a 4x4 version of 1080 HD,
Big Television.
display glasses, perfect for SHV 3D!
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