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Generation 3D

If you have a pair of red and blue glasses handy, then Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation's segment in 3D is a bit of fun.

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If you have a pair of those red and blue 3D glasses handy, then tomorrow night’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation’s segment in 3D is a bit of fun.

Apart from the drained colour, it works pretty well for those who have never seen the effect via Free to Air Television before.

In truth it’s Amanda Keller and Basil Brush who steal the show. Joe Hockey is a good sport but needs to loosen up -still, at least he played along.

…and wait for the Panda.

The 3D specs are available in select mags this week.

Worth a look on Sunday night on TEN.

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  1. Did i miss something, 3D ??? Apart from 3-4 things right in front of the camera for 2 seconds a time all I could see was a fuzzy dark picture. I can see why they shelved 3D on TV in the 80′ s!!!!

  5. @Angry Face: I think the Spy Kids specs will be fine, as will any red+blue glasses. I should point out that cellophane (or similar) glasses won’t produce as good an effect as glasses with proper colour filters because the cellophane allows a greater range of light frequencies (colours) to pass thru. I have no idea how good the filters will be in the glasses being distributed, or those from previous films/TV shows.

    And it gets worse – the effect is best viewed with a signal using component video, ie not PAL as there is some blurring of the colour palette due to the small bandwidth allocated to the colour component of the signal. However, having said that, I recall one of Andrew Denton’s programs in the late 80’s (Blah Blah Blah?) having a 3D segment where, among other things, a tennis ball was bounced off a screen in front of the camera and it was quite effective so it’ll prob be fine.

  6. Re 1983 3D tv experiment -If I remember rightly the effect wasn’t that spectacular (it just looked like 2 images rather than 3D. I remember the only thing I got from the whole evening was a massive headache and sore eyes. Hopefully this time it will work properly.

  7. Will this 3D segment work with the 3D glasses that were given out for Spy Kids 3D back in 2003? They were red-blue, although I can’t really tell the difference between blue and cyan, so they might be red-cyan.

  9. Sean’s right. The less daggy-looking specs use differently oriented polarising filters to pass one of two images to each eye. TV broadcasts are not able to generate differently polarised images as you require two separate projectors.

    If you’re making your own red-blue specs, the standard is for the red lens to be on the left. Also, you’ll get a better picture with most broadcasts if you use cyan-coloured cellophane instead of blue.

  10. so for those 5 minutes, everyone who doesnt buy tvweek is gonna turn the tv onto 2 and half men( im guessing thats whats on 9) or a stupid factual….does ten even care anymore???

  11. By that logic.. your regular reading specs will work as 3D glasses, if your cover them with red and blue cellphane 🙂

    Avatar/Up/Toy Story glasses are useless for this effect. Completely different technologies.

  13. The 3 Stooges film was ‘Pardon My Backfire’. There was also a Western following it, in 3D. I have the entire Channel 7 broadcast on VHS from the time, along with 3 pairs of glasses!

  14. I have some of the 3d glasses from the Avatar movie will it work if I change the lense with cellophane? I have a friend that is a printer technicion that says that it will work. (will different colors work instead of red and blue?)

  25. Looks good, but this isn’t the first time 3-D has been used on free to air TV.

    Who can forget the infamous 3-D special around the mid 80’s as hosted by Ian Turpie?

    From memory one of the films shown was a 3 Stooges short – I forget the rest.

    Seeing Turps wearing 3-D glasses was enough to make me wipe the show from memory!!!

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