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T o inaugurate the new space on our site, we now offer a medley of some critics suggesting emblematic titles, and that can discover and enjoy the 3D at home. No particular hierarchy has been applied, but these short articles follow the order of discovery that has been ours since our recent equipment. Thank you consult this page to obtain statements of intent and an introduction to our analysis techniques and approaches in terms of Blu-Ray available in 3D.

To start these first reviews, we chose to highlight titles of exceptional quality, and somewhat out of normal commercial distribution channels. Since its inception in the seventies, the IMAX format imposed by the very large screen movies shot in 70mm, width of film to a stunning image depth and a level of detail is clearly beyond comprehension. The films are shot in IMAX, since the era of DVD, demonstrations stunning technically, in terms of images and sounds. Canadian society is very reactive on the 3D market, since different publishers (Warner, Image, ...) offer films shot and encoded with extreme care, which maximize the potential technical and artistic relief image . The experiment shows further enhanced by the presence of a logo instituting thirty seconds, which alone would be enough to convince anyone of the potential of the 3D image, aided by a soundtrack encoded in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 which leads to violently push up the decibels.

All encoded DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, these titles also offer multi-channel mixes itself exciting, that's incredibly impact images, sound and offer perspectives on the acoustics worked to excess, showing a presence and directional optimum surround. Experience "in general" completely staggering, we can only recommend you to enjoy an unforgettable sight. Here, among many others, some securities that anointed particularly caught our attention for the quality of the proposed 3D vision, and the relevance of their sound mixes.

Legends of Flight, 44-minute movie to the glory of American commercial aviation, is one of the flagship titles published in Blu-Ray 3D. From the outset, the show sees amplified by an aggressive use of the depth of field, which is being built behind the screen, but also to the spectators. Indeed, the protrusions / bursts are legion, and they even offer a vision graduated, where flying objects and other graphic techniques take life gradually raised before escalate and take off before the audience, of back and forth. Flying animals, but also technical drawings exist in space, supported by an information-rich evocative mix of atmosphere, which does not hesitate to overemphasize the mechanical movements known all available channels to extend (and do) The feeling of relief. A synergy of more effective it literally crosses the room, both audio and video. This is clearly a title of choice, you have to order it overseas, to discover the hidden potential of 3D. Some growths link to the viewer's body, and other passages seem to draw a line between the eyes and the depth of the screen, thereby increasing the sense of distance / proximity sorely lacking during the sessions 3D in the cinema halls. Spurts are legion, on all levels: very close to the viewer, but also on the intermediate plane (equidistance between the screen and eyes), and some sequences seem exaggerate at all costs by offering an animated background behind the screen itself enriched data equally animated located in front of the viewer. Such figures unfortunately attract the phenomenon of ghosting, also known as the crosstalk, inherent flaw in 3D technology, which reveals the ghost pictures, ghosts, as the figures on the screen. This will be offset or not a TV / projector to another, but the strong visual differences and the games of strong contrasts (black and white figure in the foreground) give free rein to these defects, which ultimately will show "digestible" on many occasions. Mixing, full and generous, lively engines will roar and other passages airplane unzipped with an ardor, which perfectly follows the logic provided by the three-dimensional images. Add, in conclusion, that some effects n'nt animated onscreen, it seems, never been seen before, like the engineer designing a cabin before the spectator, or the aerodynamic performances accompanied by a long sequence of science, the most evocative and probably the most ambitious of the IMAX film an exception to discover the highest priority.

Tahiti, The Utimate 3D Wave is, too, a big surprise. The staging, different from the previous title chronicled, favors a strong implication here and push the viewer. How it helps to capture its share immersion, leaving aside the somewhat scenic, even if they dominate some inspired passages. In practice, this translates into a feeling of taking part in the show, as close to surfers, into the interior of terrifying waves, but fascinating. Begins after a relatively flat, the first signs of relief were not long in arriving, delivering vivid images of clarity and naturalness (the sunny landscapes helps greatly), with growths sometimes almost too extensive: head of a surfboard springs off the screen, water droplets appear to spread over the active 3D glasses worn by viewers, etc. .... The composition of simple sketches of discussion between two sports is also an opportunity to produce the size, the characters seem so located between the edge of the screen and the empty space between the viewer and the same screen. But it is undoubtedly the most sporting sequences that provide the show. The depth of field suddenly becomes extraordinary, giving the illusion of stretching far back of the screen, in perspective, while the paddles and surfboards from separating from the frame to break with greater or lesser extent the space in front of the screen. Some plans provide compounds that effect so immediate a sense of immersion, which work simultaneously to define the depth of the frame, and get rid of at any cost aside "solid color" of a 2D image. The depth and created materializes on the screen a relief effect worthy of the best demonstrations, providing a visual rendering totally different from what the audience is accustomed. What sums up the three-dimensional relevance of this title which, in addition to beautiful scenery captured in wide-angle, also highlights the techniques of surfing at an angle frankly startling. The appearance of some ancient totems, when telling the story of the island, will also cause intense moments of creation 3D, where the hand-drawn shapes seem to move throughout the space frame, before to cross the spectators. Occasionally, the ghosting, the usual default standard 3D and its equipment, will ruin this beautiful large 3D (strong differentiation between background and foreground).

A little more restraint in contrast to the level of sound reproduction. If he knows how to be ad hoc, in the tradition of filming / IMAX mixing, it certainly still a bit of volume and spaciousness to truly convince. The show demonstrates perfectly convincing, but neither the frequency response, or surround sound applied will achieve miracles immersion. Yet the music has a padded and made delicate rigorous spatial and discretion. Again, this title shows how the ambition of a scene in 3D is thought to create a palpable difference, insofar as it succeeds in numerous times, to surprise and reinvent the bond between spectators and images.