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Still from Avatar
Poster for Avatar

Poster via TMDB

Released in 3D

Avatar (2009)

162 minutes

Sources disagree on whether Avatar (2009) was shot in stereo or converted.

You can watch it in 3D now: Apple TV and Disney+ carry it, and the 3D version plays on an Apple Vision Pro.

Exists in
  • Blu-ray 3D
  • Digital purchase
  • Streaming
Provenance
Hybrid
Conversion house
Stereo D
Editions held
5

Two sources, two answers

This catalogue publishes the disagreement rather than choosing between them. Both are sourced and linked; the reader decides, or nobody does until a third source settles it.

Available in 3D

Avatar: cover of the 3D Blu-ray edition

3D Blu-ray

United Kingdom
No disc region · MVC
Disc count not recorded · No catalogue number
Barcode 5039036053747

Listed second-hand£2 at CeX, may have changed
Where this disc is listed

3D Blu-ray

United Kingdom
No disc region · MVC
Disc count not recorded · No catalogue number
Barcode 5056719200311

Not established
Where this disc is listed
Avatar: cover of the Digital purchase, UK store edition

Digital purchase, UK store

United Kingdom storefront
Encode not recorded

In print£13.99 at Apple, may have changed
Watch on Apple TV, UK store

Apple publishes no 3D flag, so this row says the film is sold here, not that the 3D version is.

Streaming

United States
MV-HEVC

With a subscription
Watch in 3D on Disney+

In 3D on Apple Vision Pro, where this opens in the Disney+ app. The same link plays the film in 2D on every other device.

How the 3D was made

Provenance
Hybrid Shot in stereo, converted afterwards, or a mix of the two. 1
Conversion house
Stereo D Page: Stereo D The company that did the conversion, where there was one. 5
Stereographer
Not yet recorded The person who set the depth. Rarely credited, rarely recorded. No source

Who is credited on the stereo

From TMDB, contributed by its users

These are crew credits from TMDB, where the list is written by contributors. Nobody here has checked one against the film's own titles, and TMDB does not say which of its entries have been checked. They are shown because each carries an address you can check it at; they are not evidence of the same weight as the sourced rows above.

Stereoscopic Supervisor
Michael Lester

Credits via TMDB.13

What is on the record

FieldValueSource
Aspect ratio1.78:1 and 2.39:1 1
Available in 3D on Apple TV, US storeYes checked 2
Available in 3D on Disney+Yes unverified checked 3
On the Apple TV store in the UKYes checked 4
Camera systemFusion Camera System 1
Conversion houseStereo D 5, 1
Finished at2K DI unverified 6
Released on disc inUK, USA 7
Earliest disc release1 December 2010 7
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes 8, 7, 9, 10
High frame rateYes unverified 11
High frame rate masterTrueCut Motion, 48 fps unverified 11
Production countryUnited States 1
ProvenanceHybrid 1
ProvenanceNative disputed 12
Released in 3DYes 1
Shown in IMAX 3DYes unverified 9

The film itself

7.6TMDB user score34,488 votes
12ABBFC certificateThe British certificate
162MinutesMinutes

Enter the world of Pandora.

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

The description and tagline above are TMDB's own text, reproduced under their terms rather than rewritten.13

Cast

Crew

Director
James Cameron
Writer
James Cameron
Cinematographer
Mauro Fiore
Composer
James Horner
Producer
James Cameron, Jon Landau

Catalogued as TMDB 19995 and IMDb tt0499549. Read on .

Beside this one

Also converted by Stereo D:

3D films of the 2000s · Part shot, part converted · On disc · Streaming

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) checked
  2. Apple TV, the 3D Movies room (US) checked
  3. FlatpanelsHD, 2 February 2024 checked
  4. Apple iTunes lookup, GB store checked
  5. fxguide checked
  6. Vision Pro 3D list, community maintained checked
  7. JH wiki MediaWiki API checked
  8. CeX checked
  9. The Illustrated 3D Movie List checked
  10. CeX checked
  11. FlatpanelsHD, 30 January 2024 checked
  12. RealOrFake3D checked
  13. TMDB checked ,