Piranha 3D

[Fango]

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Fango

[Sinister Minister]

The 3-D version is only available on Blue-Ray and not on DVD. What a suckfest....

[e32100]

Originally Posted by Sinister Minister

The 3-D version is only available on Blue-Ray and not on DVD. What a suckfest....

If you are in the UK I found it on play.com £9.99 free postage (if you are in the UK). It has 16 customer reviews. & it is also the same price from amazon.co.uk including UK postage. I would tell you if it is worth spending money on but I had to buy a few things before the VAT (Value Added Tax) increase, so I am skint for at least a month.

[Sinister Minister]

Thank you. I'm in the U.S. I did purchase the regular version of "Piranha No-D". I'm just not happy with the company doing this. It just reminds of a time when certain companies would release a movie and you had to choose between buying the full screen or letter box versions and to me that's a load of crap...

S&M

[jarmen]

While I'm never one to say that Hollywood is full of angels and saints, this is a technical limitation - DVD is limited to 29.97 fps (frames per second), which is standard NTSC video framerate. For 3D to look good, you're going to want at least 50-60 fps (i.e. 2x either cinematographic or NTSC framerate), and Blu-ray is necessary to support this.

Depending on your kit, it is also possible to support 3D by bifurcating the image horizontally or vertically, but again, the maximum resolution supported by DVD is 720x480 - if you halve this, we're down below analog TV land, and it's going to look like shit. Blu-ray supports a much higher range of resolutions and frame rates, and includes a specific 3D spec of up to 1080p.

Hope this helps make a little sense of the situation.

[MysteriousOne]

DVD discs hold less memory as well I think so you may not even be able to fit the whole movie in 3d onto a disc even if wasn't for the just mentioned technical limitations

[Sinister Minister]

Thanks for the info everyone, I appreciate the feedback. Well, they released "Friday the 13th Part 3", "My Bloody Valentine 3-D", and "Final Destination 4" on DVD and in 3-D (complete with glasses), and an old Three Stooges short that was converted to 3-D on DVD as well. I own all those titles plus several more. I guess "Piranha 3D" must really be special....

S&M

[jarmen]

Those are mostly likely Red/Green 3D anaglyph, which is pretty shitty technology to begin with, but certainly won't fly in the post-Avatar world - they would have a 95% return rate on DVDs...