Pirating 3D movies

This is just a theory I thought up during a long car journey, but I think it might be possible.

Theres all this stuff about how 3D movies are hard to copy etc etc, well if you get a 3D camera, cut out the lenses of the 3D glases and place them accordingly over the camera lense then the camera should be seeing the movie like you would, and it would pick up the two separate video feeds separately too which is what is needed for 3D. Once processed anybody could watch the movie in any type of 3D using Nvidia's free 3D video player or even the 3D youtube player.

Just a theory, but would be interesting to test out.

(This ain't about illegality it's about use of technology)

Ya know, I didnt understand a single thing there, but you wrote it & you made me believe its possible.

It sounds right, but like I said I dont know anything about this, but you convinced me its right lol.

Wouldnt the lens just make it record as it sees it? so it'd look 3d, but using a 3d program wouldnt make it 3d since that's just how it looks.

It's like recording a projection, and then saying that i can make it project because i filmed it. Didnt really explain it well but i hope you know what i meant.

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Originally Posted by NaughtyNemo

Wouldnt the lens just make it record as it sees it? so it'd look 3d, but using a 3d program wouldnt make it 3d since that's just how it looks.

It's like recording a projection, and then saying that i can make it project because i filmed it. Didnt really explain it well but i hope you know what i meant.

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no, this is where the 3D glasses come in.

As far as I know 3D works like this: 2 videos (slightly different from each other) are displayed at the same time and sent in different ways and the glasses you wear decodes the video you see. So basically if you close your right eye you will only see the image the left eye is receiving and vice versa. RealD is circularly polarised (effectively spinning the right image in one direction and the left in another).

The concept is turning a 3D camera into a set of eyes, if your eyes see in 3D and so do a 3D camera's, then what's there to stop a 3D camera seeing a 3D movie just like a human as long as it's wearing the glasses?

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Originally Posted by Stuto

no, this is where the 3D glasses come in.

As far as I know 3D works like this: 2 videos (slightly different from each other) are displayed at the same time and sent in different ways and the glasses you wear decodes the video you see. So basically if you close your right eye you will only see the image the left eye is receiving and vice versa. RealD is circularly polarised (effectively spinning the right image in one direction and the left in another).

The concept is turning a 3D camera into a set of eyes, if your eyes see in 3D and so do a 3D camera's, then what's there to stop a 3D camera seeing a 3D movie just like a human as long as it's wearing the glasses?

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Well then that sounds completely plausible to me, but it would need 2 different recievers or something. However, there probably is some reason why this wouldnt work.

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Originally Posted by NaughtyNemo

Well then that sounds completely plausible to me, but it would need 2 different recievers or something. However, there probably is some reason why this wouldnt work.

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If I was rich enough to have a home theatre then I probably would be able to try it out, it's possible someone with a 3DTV and 3D camera could try the theory, but the picture might flicker a little.

It wouldn't work. For one thing most movies are moving away from the standard red/blue glasses, and when you wear those glasses, it's actually making your brain merge two different images, just like the two different perspectives humans see real objects in. This is because our eyes are "3 apart" (you can fit another eye exactly between the two you already have).

Hence it wouldn't work on a camera filming a cinema AFAIK.

I'm also not sure these new RealD glasses would work either, seeing as humans get headaches after a while using them, they must be tricking the brain into merging the images or something.

what about the new type of 3D? when i went to watch avatar in 3D you don't have the blue and red glasses, it was digital 3D, you still had some sort of glasses, but it wasn't red and blue ones

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what about the new type of 3D? when i went to watch avatar in 3D you don't have the blue and red glasses, it was digital 3D, you still had some sort of glasses, but it wasn't red and blue ones

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This is the type of 3D we're talking about. Read post number 4.

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Originally Posted by Recursion

It wouldn't work. For one thing most movies are moving away from the standard red/blue glasses, and when you wear those glasses, it's actually making your brain merge two different images, just like the two different perspectives humans see real objects in. This is because our eyes are "3 apart" (you can fit another eye exactly between the two you already have).

Hence it wouldn't work on a camera filming a cinema AFAIK.

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Then setup a 3D camera to work with it.

Yes, it would work.

However, you'd need to get the images perfectly aligned with the other which is the tricky part considering the context (ie. doing it discreetly in a cinema).

And Tom, all 3d formats will cause headaches.