Tron's Legacy is 3D, HD, SD and DVD - on the same day.

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 05 April 2011 11:26

Your IT - Entertainment

If you take 3D, HD and SD, you have three D's, but add in DVD and you have four, even five, which doesn't smoothly segue into the fact that Tron Legacy in 3D is coming to Foxtel on April 20.

Pay TV releases of pay-per-view movies have obviously synchronised themselves with DVD releases, with the recent 3D hit 'Tron: Legacy' available to view, in 3D, for a 48 hour period after paying a $7 fee.

Naturally, you'll need to have a 3D television that has 'side-by-side' 3D capabilities, but that's only if you want to watch the 3D version, for Tron: Legacy is available in HD and SD, too.

Of course, you can go out and buy the DVD on the same day, but with DVD being an 'SD' medium, you may want more visual bang for your buck.

Arriving on the same day as the DVD release, Wednesday April 20, Tron:Legacy is a sequel to the original Tron movie from 1982.

While the original Tron was a triumph of CGI, the sequel tries to take that even further, naturally adding vastly superior CGI along with the TV technology of the moment: three dimensions.

If you've got a 'Foxtel iQ HD' box, which is the same as the iQ 2, and a 3D TV, you use your Foxtel remote to order the movie and then watch it instantly with Foxtel's 'On Demand' technology.

Presumably a Blu-ray version of the movie and even a 3D Blu-ray version of the movie will come in the future, but until then, at least pay-per-view has the 3D version available for those who missed the tri-dimensional technological extravaganza at the cinema.

Interestingly, it seems that the 3D revolution is really being moved forward by mainstream Hollywood movies.

Whatever happened to the prediction that it would be 3D pr0n, and not 3D Tron, that would ignite the 3D revolution for real?

Perhaps Foxtel has some pay-per-view 3D channels it's not telling us about yet - is pr0n: Legacy on the way sometime in the future, too?