My Crime

[odeon]

I don't believe in 3D. It's mass hysteria.

[Lestat]

Why not just buy a portable CD player that plugs into the mains? their speakers are built in. Or are you looking for something more along the lines of plugging it into a guitar amp so you can really blast it out?

A really cheap laptop would do the trick and be useful for other things too, a second hand one could be had reasonably cheap. Just avoid windows 10 like a cholera-turd sandwich. Its a memory hog and infested with nasty and persistent 'phone home' and spying crap. In fact its so persistent in that, and in defeating attempts to get rid of it, I class it as malware, without doubt. Its malware with a few user features. Better, get linux. Free. If you buy a secondhand laptop or one without a HD, buy a hard drive separately (be aware, laptops need, well, laptop-sized (physically, without regard to disk space) HDs. In mine, its easy enough to change, it just comes out of the side without having to open it up.

[DirtDawg]

I don't believe in 3D. It's mass hysteria.

Oh, believe it, It is real, I have witnessed it. It is real.
 

Just as every other time it has been tried, I think that the modern version of 3D is merely another short-lived fad that will eventually run its course and disappear again, soon.

[odeon]

I think you lot manage to convince each other that you experience something or the other in 3D but in the end you can't be arsed with the silly glasses. That's why it never lasts.

[DirtDawg]

Why not just buy a portable CD player that plugs into the mains? their speakers are built in. Or are you looking for something more along the lines of plugging it into a guitar amp so you can really blast it out?

A really cheap laptop would do the trick and be useful for other things too, a second hand one could be had reasonably cheap. Just avoid windows 10 like a cholera-turd sandwich. Its a memory hog and infested with nasty and persistent 'phone home' and spying crap. In fact its so persistent in that, and in defeating attempts to get rid of it, I class it as malware, without doubt. Its malware with a few user features. Better, get linux. Free. If you buy a secondhand laptop or one without a HD, buy a hard drive separately (be aware, laptops need, well, laptop-sized (physically, without regard to disk space) HDs. In mine, its easy enough to change, it just comes out of the side without having to open it up.

I actually run an old computer in my bedroom that I use as a network music server. It runs a late era version of WinXP, not allowed on the internet, half decent wi-fi security and a 2005 version of Winamp and I think an '09 version of Foobar. It plays all the music and movie formats that I have, also plays DVDs and CDs if I want.
I have installed a (hardware) bluetooth adapter which allows me to play something over the network that anyone with bluetooth and my access code has on a cellphone or any other bluetooth device.
Unfortunately bluetooth does not have much range but it has worked every time I have tried it.

[DirtDawg]

I think you lot manage to convince each other that you experience something or the other in 3D but in the end you can't be arsed with the silly glasses. That's why it never lasts.

Nah, I was making fun of your statement that you "do not believe." Kind of like that you do not believe in flying saucers, etc.

"BUT, I have seen them!!  They are REAL!!"

I think I mentioned earlier that I believe that 3D is bullshit.

What I do not get is the why, as to how it is still being produced and in some cases, accepted.

[odeon]

I think you lot manage to convince each other that you experience something or the other in 3D but in the end you can't be arsed with the silly glasses. That's why it never lasts.

Nah, I was making fun of your statement that you "do not believe." Kind of like that you do not believe in flying saucers, etc.

"BUT, I have seen them!!  They are REAL!!"

I think I mentioned earlier that I believe that 3D is bullshit.

What I do not get is the why, as to how it is still being produced and in some cases, accepted.

They've stopped making 3D TVs, though, haven't they? Or did I misunderstand?

[Queen Victoria]

I don't believe in 3D. It's mass hysteria.

Oh, believe it, It is real, I have witnessed it. It is real.
 

Just as every other time it has been tried, I think that the modern version of 3D is merely another short-lived fad that will eventually run its course and disappear again, soon.

Do you remember Cinerama with the curved screen?  The first movie I saw on it was How The West Was Won.

[Pyraxis]

I think you lot manage to convince each other that you experience something or the other in 3D but in the end you can't be arsed with the silly glasses. That's why it never lasts.

Nah, I was making fun of your statement that you "do not believe." Kind of like that you do not believe in flying saucers, etc.

"BUT, I have seen them!!  They are REAL!!"

I think I mentioned earlier that I believe that 3D is bullshit.

What I do not get is the why, as to how it is still being produced and in some cases, accepted.

They've stopped making 3D TVs, though, haven't they? Or did I misunderstand?

It's all about the VR now.

(You know, like it was in the 80's.)

['andersom']

Have seen a few things in 3D, with the kids when they we still kids. The animated stuff was good. The thing that had been filmed in a real, 3D environment with real 3D people sucked. Made sense to me. The animated movie makers had way more control on what to make pop up and what not. There were no blurred parts. I was not thinking I needed glasses all the time. Actualy liked it in how to tame a dragon.

[odeon]

I don't believe in 3D. It's mass hysteria.

Oh, believe it, It is real, I have witnessed it. It is real.
 

Just as every other time it has been tried, I think that the modern version of 3D is merely another short-lived fad that will eventually run its course and disappear again, soon.

Do you remember Cinerama with the curved screen?  The first movie I saw on it was How The West Was Won.

You experienced actual Cinerama? Cool.

[Queen Victoria]

I don't believe in 3D. It's mass hysteria.

Oh, believe it, It is real, I have witnessed it. It is real.
 

Just as every other time it has been tried, I think that the modern version of 3D is merely another short-lived fad that will eventually run its course and disappear again, soon.

Do you remember Cinerama with the curved screen?  The first movie I saw on it was How The West Was Won.

You experienced actual Cinerama? Cool.

The movie house that operated in Cinerama is now an auto showroom.  Got flooded in Katrina, but it was re-purposed years before.  Oh, yeah, I remember seeing It's a Wild, Wild, Wild World there.

[odeon]

I don't believe in 3D. It's mass hysteria.

Oh, believe it, It is real, I have witnessed it. It is real.
 

Just as every other time it has been tried, I think that the modern version of 3D is merely another short-lived fad that will eventually run its course and disappear again, soon.

Do you remember Cinerama with the curved screen?  The first movie I saw on it was How The West Was Won.

You experienced actual Cinerama? Cool.

The movie house that operated in Cinerama is now an auto showroom.  Got flooded in Katrina, but it was re-purposed years before.  Oh, yeah, I remember seeing It's a Wild, Wild, Wild World there.

People always mention the deeply curved screen but what really made Cinerama special was the fact that it was a three-strip format--the image required three projectors and the sound a fourth, all projected in sync. The theatre where I used to work was a Cinerama theatre, once upon a time, the only one of its kind in Sweden.

As for the film, did you mean How the West Was Won, which was an actual 3-strip Cinerama production, or It's a  Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which was the first "one-strip Cinerama" feature, actually shot in 70mm Ultra Panavision (incidentally the same format that was revived by Quentin Tarantino last year)? Or both?

Can you tell I'm a film tech nerd yet?

[Queen Victoria]

@ odeon.  I saw both of them.  I believe World was the first one I saw, but it could have been West.

[odeon]

Mad, Mad, etc, is the older of the two. 1963 vs 1964, I think. Technically speaking, it was an effort to introduce the single-strip Cinerama format to replace the costly and cumbersome three-strip format with, while I think West was the last real Cinerama production (could have been the Grimm Brothers, though, but can't be arsed to check).