The Little Mermaid 3D Blu Ray 2023

This is a great conversion and one of JFC's best imo. Thank you sir for keeping 3d alive! The picture quality is great for the size, though I could always hope for higher bitrate. I barely miss not having the studio version on blu-ray 3d, and that would just be for the tiny extra in PQ and to compare the conversion-because I am really not sure which I liked better! JFC pushes some scenes more I believe which I love, but of course there is not quite the refinement with him just being one person with so little time/funds.

This one was so so incredible, it easily became my #1 favorite conversion of jfc probably even including studio releases which I own over 200 of... I have watched quite a few of these now and hands down this one was masterfully done GREAT job man!

I was not lucky enough to watch this movie in a theater. And I have to admit that even being a fan of JFC I was a bit scared about this conversion provided that there are so many elements in some scenes that it could be a nightmare to adjust the depth of everything without a titanic effort. But JFC has demonstrated once again his mastery, not only on technology but mainly with knowledge about how our brains work. I am not commenting about the general level of the conversion, we all already know the exceptional level JFC's conversions achieve, and this one excels technically, but how could only one man make such a good conversions in with such small deadlines? You will be astonished by some shots like the final one of "Under the Sea" song performance, it is awesome, incredible. This song performance was a tough test to overcome. JFC is a magician playing with our perceptions. He can do whatever he wants provided he devotes enough time to it but when limited in time (we are comparing one man to the whole Disney's muscle), he knows exactly where to put big efforts and where to calculate the dosis. The way he's dealt with depth in this movie reminds me the way compression algorithms work: they put a lot of info in what our brain most perceive and less info in what our brains don't perceive or can fill themselves. JFC did that here. He's leveraged the depth spectrum to cause astonishment in the viewer when necessary, creating wow effects in key shots and letting our brains to fill the gap in intermediate ones when the action is fast. The result is optimal.

And that for the fantasy shots. If we just think of more realistic shots, as a diver and amateur underwater 3D video and photographer, JFC nailed it again with realism. I would truly think of not shooting in 3D underwater any more and hiring JFC to convert 2D shots (which are much easier to shot and edit) instead ;-).

Don't even dare to watch this movie in 2D now that there is a JFC conversion available. Now I don't care about having missed it in theaters.

I'm glad to see a conversion done in reading the great reviews of JFC's work. I do find it a shame that Disney put all the effort to making it a 3D film for theaters, but didn't release in 3D blu-ray.