Fox Says No 3D Avatar Blu-ray in NovemberJames Cameron caused quite a stir when he said to the Wall Street Journal that Avatar would come out on Blu-ray in
April in a "barebones" release and then in
November in a 3D edition. On Thursday night, a spokesman for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment notified the WSJ:
"3D is in the conceptual stage and Avatar will not be out on 3D Blu-ray in November." Of course, when putting in context the claim that "3D is in the conceptual stage," the following known facts are worth considering:
-In December, the Blu-ray Disc Association (of which Fox is a board member) announced that it had finalized the Blu-ray 3D specification.
-The 3D part of the HDMI 1.4 specification has already been adopted and made public.
-At CES, 3D Blu-ray players were announced by Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba. Most of them have also announced 3D displays.
-This year, the PS3 is reportedly getting a firmware upgrade enabling 3D Blu-ray playback.
-Blu-ray 3D authoring is already operational at Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory.
-Disney, Dreamworks and Sony have already announced they will release 3D titles during 2010.
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Probably the 3D will still being released in November. The studio doesn't want James Cameron to spill the beans too early because the stuidio wants to rip tons of money off the barebones release before announcing the 3D version thinking many will double dip. The studio rep is obviously lying since he stated that the technology isn't ready. Also, probbaly many won't be interested in the 3D release in view they don't have the right gears (e.g. 3D HDTV).
Similar case is the announced
Lord of the Ring (Theatrical Editions) (no Extended Edition in the horizon) which incur the wrath of LOTR fans. Many protest tru the
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