RED sorta announced their upcoming 4K 3D projector on their forum. It uses a laser as its light source. 4K is the resolution, not the price. No word on the imager but it is definitely not DLP. Available for theatrical and home use. "SOON" is the delivery date.

RED is the maker of RED digital camera, like the RED Epic, which was used to shoot next year's Spiderman and PJ's The Hobbit films.


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Added on November 17, 2011, 11:22 pmKL's 3D Cinema Screen update. Some people may have known this already and others may not.

TGV KLCC have installed a silver screen in Hall 2. This means that it is now able to play 3D films using RealD 3D. If you don't like the glasses of Dolby 3D and the active shutter glasses of Maxx, you should give RealD 3D a try. If you have the LG Cinema 3D series, you can use those glasses to watch in 3D. I don't know if you can insist that you shouldn't pay extra for the glasses you don't need. If you can, do! If you can't, then at least you get to keep the RealD glasses which you can now use at home. If they give you any trouble about either one, write to the newspapers!

TGV may have installed silver screens on their other cineplexes at all as apparently TGV is going through a renovation phase. TGV is now installing Digital Imax at Sunway Pyramid. I doubt it would be as good as Maxx but at least TGV can start showing Imax films there. It won't be the same though as the screen on Digital Imax is only slightly bigger than regular screens.


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The REDRay Projector will be on display at NAB today. Here's the gist of what it can do.



Sony/Barco/JVC can eat their shorts.


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For US$10,000 The REDRay projector also
- Includes an internal REDray Player
- Also accepts HDMI or HD-SDI input


What's a REDray player? It's essentially a player that can read REDCode formats directly from the RED Epic/Scarlet/One SSDs. The REDRay can also display FOUR 1080p content simultaneously. Here's a gist of the specs.



The REDray projector's main user will be content creators shooting at 4K and using the PJ to grade their content. But as you can see, you can also hook it up to your PS3/Orbis for some 1080p 3D gaming.


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Is those major Studios will support the REDray format?

RED is working on getting DCI approval for RedRay projector and player. Encoding can be done already via software/hardware solutions. Distribution can be via SSD delivery or direct download to server.

Here are the pix of the projector Engadget took at the RED booth. Click to see.

What DCI approval means that the REDRay projector is designed to replace not only current LCD/DLP/D-ILA home theater projectors, it is also designed to replace current DLP cinema projectors that uses Xenon lights.

The projector design is a modular one. The home/grading studio version can go up to 15'/180" screen but if you want a bigger screen, you send the projector back to them and ask for a laser and imager upgrade. Supposedly for larger venues, the projector will cost up to US$40,000. Current Christie Digital DLP 2K projectors cost US$120,000. The key thing to remember is this : just like their cameras, the REDRay projector is also upgradeable. You don't need to buy a new projector if 6K is coming; just upgrade the laser and imager.

RED also just announced the Dragon sensor which can capture images at 6K. Very soon, maybe under 5 years, RED cameras can capture images at the same resolution as 70mm Imax films, which is currently at 10K. By that time, Imax may actually be a client for RED.


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ok..after reading all..im still confused some say do not need 3d tv..just 3d souce with 3d glasses can already. then wat is the 3d tv for?

Hih hih hih i have 3D TV but i don't like the 3D effect, even my TV can convert from 2D to 3D

huh.. says who?

here you go, This one for Active/Passive 3D, not the glassless one

3DTV + 3D Source (such as 3D Blu-ray) + 3D Glasses = 3D Experience

3DTV + 2D source (with 2D to 3D converter active) + 3D Glasses = 3D Experience

its still can experience 3d effect without using 3dtv...........that 3d glasses is red cyan(blue) glasses.

but the effect is not good..........huge different if compare to real 3dtv

ahh ic.. thats what you meant..reminds me of my old anaglyph 3D VHS tapes.. there are varieties of it the most common one is the cyan-red. All you need is a 3D source + Spectacles.

PC players like POwerDVD does support 2D to 3D conversion into anaglyph formats.

This post has been edited by Mea Culpa: May 21 2012, 09:43 PM