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^ Cyberlink corp. is not a donkey cart company which is investing so much money and time to make their PowerDVD a simpler way of making 2d movies a 3d. Moreover, such 3d lcd monitors and TVs are designed to provide good quality for 3d movies which an ordinary monitor can't. And there is no need of buying 18000 rupees nvidia 3d glasses as one can prepare it for himself (cyan and magenta two colors are needed) or buy it from a ''khokhey wala'' for Rs 100. (but you know quality and colors won't be like nvidia's 3d glasses)

Its basically a "different kind" of 3D when you are converting movies that were not shot in 3D. You can make any movie look 3D by doing the viewmaster thing: taking apart a picture frame by frame and moving aspects right or left to create the 3d stereoscope based on perceived depth. Mitsubishi has been developing a Blu-ray player that does this automatically, I would presume by "guessing" the depth of picture elements based on their focus or some proprietary algorithm.

The problem with this form is that it does not produce details in 3D because you get the viewmaster look: Everything is flat, but some of the flat things look like they are closer to you than others. If the film is actually shot in 3D, however, there can be a truer depth to the image.

I think what Mitsubishi is doing is going to failed. It's more complex than that to convert 2d to 3D. Imax way of converting is the best to my knowledge right now for converting 2D to 3D. What Mitsubishi is going to give people is a flat cutout with depth. While Imax techniques break down and separate characters and objects within the scene and giving it depth and a 3D of the objects.

But you are right about shooting it in 3D. Shooting it with a proper 3D camera will give it a more realistic depth. While converting it from 2D to 3D has it limit because of the time and resources. There's no way given the time frame to break down every single objects within 1 images and it's mindboggling to be doing it for 24 frames per sec. It's a very tedious process. You jsut need to cheat and decided what should be in 3D and leave out what you think doesn't need it since the human eyes might not be able to pick it up so you can get away with it.