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Gearburn • 25 Jan 2013

RIP 3D

By Claudio Rebuzzi

3D Movie

Is 3D dead? Should you be happy that new apparent replacement for HD is slowly being buried under four thousand pixel screens?

The first time I went to a 3D movie it was, yes you guessed it, Avatar. It was grand. I can’t say it was great, but grand it certainly was. It looked like it was heralding the newest, greatest step in movie history since the introduction of colour.