ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mitsubishi Announces 3D Blu-Ray Players

Mitsubishi Announces 3D Blu-Ray Players

Just imagine the fun of License to Wed in HD3D!

by Jeff Giles | August 30, 2007

If you're the type of person who rushes out to get new gadgets as they become available, you've probably already made your choice between HD DVD and Blu-Ray. For those who prefer to wait until technological format wars are settled, however, the next-gen movie battle just got a little more interesting.

According to SciFi.com (reporting via UberGizmo, which linked to an article at Crave), Mitsubishi has decided to enter the Blu-Ray fray -- but that isn't the cool part of the story. The company's players will bring hi-def goodness to consumers, but they won't stop there, no sir: Strap on a pair of goggles, and they'll bring it to you in 3-D. And not just specially made discs, either -- Mitsubishi claims its technology will be able to take plain old 2-D flicks and make three-dimensional magic happen on the fly.

Okay, admittedly, wearing goggles on your couch isn't really anybody's idea of fun, but in a marketplace where you can buy a regular old DVD player for the price of a tank of gas, this extra wrinkle adds some neat-o factor to Mitsubishi's wares, and should help nudge more patient (or less solvent) consumers down from the fence. Have you purchased a next-gen player (or two) yet? Does this affect your decision?

Source: SciFi.com
Source: Crave
Source: UberGizmo

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Movie Maniac! writes:
on Aug 30 2007 05:59 AM

Hmmm.

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witherwings writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:06 AM

DVDs are just fine by me. Yeah, HD formats are crisp, but I just don't care, it's not worth buying new stuff. I sound like my parents with VCRs when the DVD came out--except the main reason I liked the DVD was for the fastforward/rewind deal.

3D? 3D is annoying. Remember how they have all these movies at the IMAX in 3D? Unless a filmmaker specifically designed a film for 3D, I feel like that's cheap. It's not the real art experience.

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pota1967 writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:07 AM

Anyone else find it funny that the article is about a new super duper dvd player and a the video Jaws 3 is shown

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dahluzz writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:16 AM

nope, i don't find that funny at all.

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blank blank writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:24 AM

i thought it was weird that they had jaws 3, stupid but not funny

anyways, i think anybody who buys either an hd dvd or blu ray right now is an idiot. ask all the people who bought the beta max back in the day instead of a vcr. someone is going to lose, its just a matter of time

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Basilides in Alexandria writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:25 AM

Jaws 3 came out in 3D (in 1983) so it makes kind of sense...

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bondsteraston writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:30 AM

In reply to this comment (#1084854)
I agree, all this new stuff is just excessive

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Eldorado writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:45 AM

Ya, stop making new stuff.. we don't like new stuff.. damn inventors!

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ipisking writes:
on Aug 30 2007 06:55 AM

I will just wait till it is all just standard-ware

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Jeff Giles writes:
on Aug 30 2007 07:03 AM

In reply to this comment (#1084907)
You get an invisible gold star for today, Basilides. Thanks for remembering!

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Derbeste writes:
on Aug 30 2007 07:15 AM

It's not that I don't like new stuff....

It's that blu-ray and hd-dvd isn't "new enough". They just don't offer the leap that DVD did over VHS. The improvement in picture certainly isn't worth how expensive it would be to convert over my player and all my movies (that's even if the movies I want are even available).

Even if there was a clear cut winner, I'd probably be just peachy with a plain DVD player with a good upscaler for quite a while.

I prefer to wait for digital distribution to be come the standard.

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digitalrelic writes:
on Aug 30 2007 07:25 AM

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Thing is Derbeste, you can get an HD DVD player for ~$200 nowadays that upscales your DVD's wonderfully.

So you could just buy the player, buy HD DVDs for any new releases, and keep your old catalog of DVDs and upscale them and they'll still look great.

Win-win situation in my opinion.

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bigteddyt writes:
on Aug 30 2007 07:36 AM

....not if blu-ray wins, which it will. sony lost the beta battle, i don't presume they're going to lose this one. blu-ray is a better format, and it just sounds cooler.

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ZombieX5000 writes:
on Aug 30 2007 07:58 AM

HD-DVD has better features than Blu-Ray though.

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Crenshaw writes:
on Aug 30 2007 08:06 AM

I overspent on a Sony XBR 1080p LCD HDTV (and I'll do it again in a minute - man I love that TV) Anyway, I was not ready to choose an HD DVD format, so I also got an Oppo 1080p upconverting DVD player. And that thing does a VERY fine job. To compare, I looked at an HD episode of Heroes I recorded on the DVR and the same episode on the standard DVD via teh Poop. The HD version was certainly better, but not THAT much better. Certainly not enough to warrant a purchase decision yet. True, teh HD version of Heroes is in 1080p and my recorded episode is in 1080i, but when you are sitting 8 feet from the screen it won't mater that much.

As for 3D - stupid. I'd get it if it was a cheap add-on because the kids would like it. But if it's going to take 2D movies and 3d-ize them, ugh, I don't want to think about it.

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Gimy writes:
on Aug 30 2007 08:43 AM

woo hoo...p3rno will be lifelike! talk about COMING at you...phew. with THAT much clarity, i bet you can even see the crabs hangin' out in Hilton's el presidente during One Night in Paris...

you rich jerks argue about whats better...i'll just sit back and enjoy my awesome 36 inch rca crapper thats so ghetto nobody would even TRY to steal it. who needs the ENTIRE picture on a screen...or whiteness that DOESN'T turn purple after 10 seconds?? ah...its good to be poor. we don't whine about clarity or high def, as long as there's no "snow"...its all good baby!

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Merlin235 writes:
on Aug 30 2007 09:04 AM

Anyone who doesn't think HD is a vast improvement over DVDs just hasn't seen the difference. That's just silly.
And I have a PS3, which has a Blu ray player. So I'll throw my vote on Blu ray's side. They don't have all the features of HD-DVDs yet, but that isn't a limitation on the technology, it's because the first Blu ray players didn't have the ability to PLAY the features. Now they do, that gap is closing. It'll be an interesting war to watch. Until recently, HD-DVD was a joke. Thanks to paying Paramount $150 million, they're back in it. So, basically, Paramount is a prostitute.

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TheAncientEnemy writes:
on Aug 30 2007 09:33 AM

Now we can watch Gone Fishin' in all its 3-D glory, as the director intended!

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BrianInSD writes:
on Aug 30 2007 09:58 AM

Sadly, Jaws 3-D is a Universal title so, due to their sole backing of HD-DVD, we won't get to see it's Blu-Ray 3-D glory for a long, long time. So...very...very...very...sad. And thanks to Paramount's recent decision, we won't get Friday the 13th Part 3-D any time soon either! Damn you, Format War!!!

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Sputnik99 writes:
on Aug 30 2007 10:56 AM

Hey Jeff Giles, I actually remember seeing Jaws 3D way back in 1983. Can I have an invisible gold star, too? =)

Back then, those 3D goggles were cooool.

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