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Microcap & Penny Stocks : NVEI (Was NVXE) - New Visual Entertainment Inc.
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To: Loren who wrote (327)3/25/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: Ben Mackenzie  Read Replies (2) of 2211
 
I'm from the eastern U.S. ... and was on a business trip to L.A. on Monday & Tuesday ... Our meetings got done early, so I called and went over to NVE and met Ray and Jack Tuesday afternoon. As Gary said in post 325 "This is a classic arbitrage situation wherein they have to spend $1 to make $10 and up until now they haven't had that initial $1." .... From what I can see, they have several opportunities in front of them to make $$ with good margin ... If they can get funded properly, they appear to be in a verrrry good position to go forth and do a major turn around with this company.

I asked to see and did see a 3D camera lens and also a projection lens (you'd use at the movie theater). I'm an aeronautical engineer who is an avid photographer and also was a 35 mm projectionist at the local theater when I was in high school. What I saw was really clever ... and patented by Chris Conden who has an exclusive agreement with NVE per Jack. The camera lens puts both left and right eye images on to a single 35 mm frame (upper half of the frame is one eye and the lower half the other eye). The forward end of the camera lens actually has two lenses (left and right) with an overall dimension of about 3" high x 8" wide ... which has internal lensing which puts the images on the frame as I previously described.

The 3D projection lens replaces the lens on the front of a standard 35 mm movie projector, and picks up the upper and lower images from the frame and projects them in the appropriate positions on the movie screen.

To set up a theater for NVE 3D, from what I can see, all the theater needs to do is install a 3D lens on the movie projector, and intall a silver screen (to maintain the polarizations of the light - left and right eye are projected at different polarizations) ... and use cheap polarized glasses ... If the theater wants to convert back to flat screen 2D stuff .. it just takes about 60 seconds ... and that includes putting the lens back into its container. I used to do that as a high school kid all the time (Class of '61) ... cinerama movies used a different lens than standard movies.

So what impressed me was that a movie theater complex could start out with one of its theaters being set up for 3D ... and they could switch to run 2D anytime they wanted to ... easily.

Ray indicated that some theaters now have a turret on the front end of the projector .. so that all they need to do to change lenses is to rotate the turret.

My guess is that many movie theaters have an expensive sound system ...and that to get set up for 3D would likely be less money than they spent on the sound system ... and 3D would draw a whole lot more people (IMHO).

Regards,
Ben
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