I have read some TDR users saying the new video is in 3D. And I have several problems with that. First is that I can not really test it, because neither I have those kind of glasses nor they would serve anything for me since I’ve never been able to see that 3D rubbish but in very special cinemas. That’s why I would like to discuss it from another point of view. :D

First, that some people think it’s 3D images is due to the borders of the figures in the images changing to different colours. I can’t contradict that fact, although it could be many more things than 3D. The main problem for me with accepting this theory is that we can see those “effects” both in the new and in the background images from older videos. While I don’t happen to know how the new images are recorded (I only know they use green Chroma-key), it’s impossible to create a depth perception effect without using 2 cameras. May be 2 cameras were used in the new, but the old videos are all flat and have that aspect as well, so in them it wouldn’t work.

Then another problem is that, especially in Marie’s shot, the border colours lag (in time) behind the actual image. In 3D stereoscopy it is absolutely necessary for all the images to be perfectly synchronous. So in those Marie shots wouldn’t theoretically work.

Then, in Per’s shot especially, it’s not always the same colours on the same sides. Let me tell you this is absolutely necessary because the glasses blind one of the images for being made of the same colour. So if you keep changing the colours, the 3D won’t work again.

In my humble opinion, those colours have nothing to do with 3D. It’s the director playing with 3 concepts mainly. First, it tries to convey the relationship of Roxette with the age of television, especially older television. So it tries to mantain all the clip long the colours of the testing pattern generators that shows in the beginning. Younger people don’t know much about this, but before tv channels began emissions every day there used to be those patterns, with which you could adjust the receptor.
Then, those “less digital” border colours are faked chromatic aberration, like the one you get with poor quality (or old, or bad adjusted) lenses. They play with this a lot as we can see.
Finally, the video makes use of old-style animations that remember of arcade videogames.

I think with all that the video just makes a travel in time, a revival of the 80’s tv esthetics, and could be that even fakes 3D because that was so popular then, but it can’t be said to be a 3D video.

What can you add to all this?