Gizmodo.com need our help "Sony 200 inch mystery displa

Post by **Silversurfer** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:02 pm

Can anybody help gizmodo.com answer this question:

"Apparently, the new attraction at Sony's Tokyo headquarters is a gigantic 200-inch display showing HD underwater footage in 3D. The footage was shot by divers in the Okanawa aquarium with a couple of high-end Sony cameras, but what we're really interested in is that display. What is it?
There's not much info that we can find online, but it's almost definitely not some new 200-inch TV. That sort of thing would have been wheeled out at CES to show Panasonic what's up. Perhaps it’s a custom job with two panels stitched together? A projection? Maybe it's just a really fancy aquarium that's gussied up to look like a display? I'm not sure, but from the photos it looks very big and very nice. Anyone have the goods? Inquiring minds want to know. [New Launches]

Article:
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full ... ry-display"

It's got to be some side kind of project right?

Post by **Neil** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:52 pm

It doesn't look real. You sure it isn't a joke?

Neil

Post by **Silversurfer** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:31 pm

Neil wrote:It doesn't look real. You sure it isn't a joke?

Neil

Gizmodo are usually spot-on with their source material but this could be the exception to the rule.

One comment suggests it is this, Sony own CineAlta 4K SRX-R220: Ultra-HD Cinema-in-a-Box System, and that's what I call a projector

:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/projector/so ... 255067.php

Post by **cybereality** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:38 pm

Silversurfer wrote:Gizmodo are usually spot-on with their source material but this could be the exception to the rule.

I'm with Neil on this one. Looks like some sort of hoax.

Post by **yuriythebest** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:06 pm

I read gizmodo like twice a day and usually it's the same quality as engadget.com However since news like this spread from blog to blog virally if one gets it wrong they all do. No reason why this can't be real though- could be a one-off promotional proof of concept thing. to prove my earlier point here is another gizmodo article:

http://gizmodo.com/5027707/film-industr ... ng-at-home

it points directly to the page silversurfer showed in another thread.

also it'd anoying that they keep using red/cyan glasses images at 3d-related threads. Then again what else are they to put? polarized glasses look just regular glasses and shutterglasses- well, why replace one stereotype with another? Overall though I'm very encouraged by this news- though I won't hold my breath for any satellite channels to start broadcasting in 3d any time soon (which would be soo amazing since I have a satellite modem which I use just for watching sat tv on the pc). For instance if news channels like bbc world, france24, cnn, aljazeera english, etc would offer stereo3d versions every report would be like actually being there. Then again as I've said I'm not holding my breath- if this happens before 2012 I'll be impressed. If it happens later like 2020 I won't be surprised.

EDIT: I started talking about the parallel thread, my bad.

btw, that article says

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers intends to tackle this problem, and has given the problem over to the newly formed 3-D Home Display Formats Task Force

will they at least try to contact MTBS or the other way round? seems all we do here is sit and complain and somewhere some super exclusive "motion picture 3d task force" is formed. I call for Niel to get an interview with them or something, get involved with em.

Post by **Tril** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:59 pm

They are already broadcasting some shows in S-3D in japan (mainly as a test iwth not much content from what I've read). This will eventually come here but it will take some time. HDTV took years to get in lots of home and it's still incomplete.

Post by **yuriythebest** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:01 pm

Tril wrote:They are already broadcasting some shows in S-3D in japan (mainly as a test iwth not much content from what I've read). This will eventually come here but it will take some time. HDTV took years to get in lots of home and it's still incomplete.

Wow! Anime AND S3D- whatever drives those people?

Post by **Ifandbut** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:41 pm

The Japanese are normaly a good 2 years beyond USA in terms of electric tech. When I visited there in high school I was amazed that they all had cameras on their cell phones. I was like "zomg why the screw dont we have those". Then about 2 years latter I finaly started seeing cameras here in the states.

The Clone Wars will be comeing out in 3D?! I wonder if they will release that in some home video format so I can watch it on my iZ3D.

Post by **QXD** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:20 pm

http://www.sonybuilding.jp/campaign/aquarium2008/

click picture that boy wearing polarized glasses

3Dの方式は偏光方式/Passive Stereo方式です。
撮影は左右別のカメラで撮影し上映時はプロジェクターのレンズの前に左右それぞれの90度ずらした
偏光フィルターを取り付けて映写し、観客は左右の目にそれぞれ該当する角度の偏光フィルターが付いた眼鏡をかけてご覧頂きます

In short, they shoot video using two HDC-F950 camara and show using two projector with polarized filter. The audience have to wearing polarized glasses.

Let's change the topic. You know, Japan is testing 3D broadcasting.
(3DTV is using Xpol(similar to 'line interleaved') at the present. People have to wearing polarized glasses to watch TV, of course.

This is the TV to watch 3D broadcasting in Japan.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/worl ... n-sale-in/

http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&u ... wK4Kim7Nug

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... l=ko&tl=en

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... l=ko&tl=en

Modern Haiti => Hyundai IT(bad translate) )

So close, yet so far. Japanese planned overall regular 3D broadcasts in 2025.

Post by **Freke1** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:49 pm

QXD wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/worl ... n-sale-in/

The comments are killing me

Post by **Mercy Yamada** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:09 pm

This 3D system uses OPUS system.
OPUS is 4K SXRD rear-projection system.
Website of OPUS:
http://www.sonybuilding.jp/e/opus/index.html
News release of OPUS (in Japanese):
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/ ... 6/sony.htm
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/ ... sony10.jpg
Translation:
http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/englis ... N&wb_dis=3

OPUS has been set up to Sony Building since March of last year.
Sony Building:
http://www.sonybuilding.jp/e/index.html
However, this is the first time the stereoscopic vision is exhibited in OPUS.

I think that I will go to watch this next week.

Post by **Okta** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:28 am

I was going to post rear projection

, as the 2 figures in front leave no shadows.