Real D Cinema

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Real D Cinema is a new digital 3D stereoscopic projection technology. Unlike older 3D stereoscopic projection technology, REAL D Cinema plays 2D and 3D content using a single digital projector.

The Real D 3-D system was invented by Lenny Lipton, an American inventor. It is based on the push-pull electro-optical modulator called the ZScreen.

Real D utilizes a high-resolution digital projector that displays images at a higher frame rate than a typical movie—144 images per second. The frames are divided between the left and the right eye by the following method: A liquid-crystal screen placed before the projector lens polarizes the pictures, so the audience, wearing plastic glasses with polarized lenses, sees different images in its left and right eyes, creating the illusion of depth. The result is a 3-D picture that seems to extend behind and in front of the screen itself.

1 Overview
2 Future films
3 List of Real D released films
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Overview

The first film released using this format was 2005's Chicken Little. For this release, the computer-animated film was re-rendered in 3-D by Industrial Light and Magic and exhibited on Real D Cinema Systems using Dolby Digital Cinema servers.^[1]

The 3D version of Chicken Little has so far earned about 2.5 times as much per screen. When the movie was first shown in 2005, only less than 100 theaters around the US were equipped to show the movie in 3D. These statistics are difficult to correlate on their own given the many unknown factors involved.

Also, a stereoscopic 3D version of the film Monster House has been created and is expected to have a limited special release in the REAL D Cinema format along with the "flat" version. Monster House was released in approximately 200 theaters equipped for REAL D Cinema . In October 2006, The Nightmare Before Christmas was re-released in this technique as well.

Meet the Robinsons will be released March 30th on both traditional "flat" and "3D" versions of the film. The film was converted to stereo by Digital Domain. Some estimate over 700 screens for the 3D release of the film. That would make this release the largest ever using the Real D system.

For more info visit: www.reald.com

[edit] Future films

Future films that will utilize Real D format 3D include Disney's Meet the Robinsons in March 2007 and Beowulf, directed by Robert Zemeckis, in November 2007. U2's concert film based on the Vertigo Tour will debut in Real D in late 2007. Also, New Line Cinema and Walden Media's Journey 3-D is set to be released in summer 2008 making it the first live-action film to be released in Real D format 3D. On March 12, 2007, DreamWorks Animation announced [1] that beginning with the summer 2009 release of Monsters vs. Aliens, all of their features will be released in theatres in 3D, with Monsters vs. Aliens to be filmed from the outset using Real D technology.