Outdoor Movies 3D Package?

It is with interest that we have seen a seller of outdoor movie screens announce plans to offer  a 3D outdoor movie system. Their press release and website are understandably short of details. We will be interested to see which technology they have chosen.

As a leading pioneer in Outdoor 3D, and with our experience screening a 3D movie to 5,000 viewers using the RealD system on our projectors, we know what the challenges are!  Pioneering technologies comes at a price.

The basics of 3D are simple, there is a movie for the right eye and a movie for the left, so you actually show two movies. A 3D projector and polarizing filter alternates the image very quickly. The glasses make sure each eye only sees the movie it is supposed to see.  The challenge for outdoor display is that showing two movies at once (3D) requires enough light to show the two movies. So the projector must be 50-100% brighter for an equivalent brightness to a 2D display. So there is no real "cheap" 3D.

Stay tuned, there will be more news on this topic! We welcome your comments and feedback.