The 3D re-relase of Terminator 2 was released on blu-ray recently. Unfortunately it wasn't made available to the US, but no matter - I bought a copy from Amazon UK (www.amazon.co.uk). It was region-coded for region B (so it wouldn't play in my player), but I found a piece of software called AnyDVD HD that can rip an ISO and remove region coding. I did so and burned the resulting ISO to a BD-R, and it plays in my player. AnyDVD has a registration fee, but it has a fully-functional trial period which works for a limited time.

I watched a few minutes of it last night (it was late, so I haven't watched the whole thing yet), but from what I saw, the 3D conversion looks fairly good for 2D-3D conversion.

This was one of my favorite sci-fi movies, and I think the 3D adds a fairly cool effect (though of course it's a great movie without the 3D). I think it's a bummer that the 3D home movie market has tanked in the US and they apparently aren't selling any more 3D movies in the US. I was reading an article about why home 3D failed in the US, and it sounds like one of the reasons was bad timing. I didn't know TV manufacturers started making 3D TVs in 2010, which was right after the US converted from analog to digital over-the-air TV broadcasting - A lot of people probably bought new TVs around that time (though I know at least several people just bought a digital TV tuner box with one of the gov't-provided coupons, making the box essentially free). If I had just bought a new TV then, I could see probably not waning to buy yet another TV for 3D. Any new technology is expensive at first though.. I suppose there probably just weren't enough buyers when they were launched in the US. Perhaps the home 3D movie market will do better abroad, and if so, perhaps they'll re-introduce 3D TVs and home movies back in the US.

Nightfox

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