3D Television

[kf0rt]

Anyone seen it?

Wifey and I were at the local Costco this weekend picking up vittles and sundries and they had one set up with a pair of the special glasses on a fixture a few feet in front of the set. Had to take a peek -- pretty impressive for the minute or so I watched. It really looked 3D.

The old red/green glasses trick never worked on me 'cuz my left eye has always been pretty weak, but this really worked. I notice that Comcast now has a 3D channel.

I'm guessing that this will probably be a flash-in-the-pan gimmick that won't really catch on, but it's pretty cool.

[KG4CGC]

Precursor to holographic entertainment. I imagine that will become the default style of monitor for all applications like the CRT and later the LCD platforms. It will be just as normal as large LCD monitors for computing are now. I think it looked like we were going the way of the wall of pictures for a while but hanging up multiple screens like in Fahrenheit 451 and support for it would not be around long enough (nor be supportable for market of a new media) before holographic entertainment.

[NQ6U]

Personally, I'd rather see program producers take the money that they would spend on creating 3D programs and put it into hiring writers. I've seen lots of 3D movies (the XYL loves them) and, so far, have not seen one where the third dimension did anything to move the story along. It does add a pretty cool wow! factor but, for me, that wears off in about 20 minutes.

[kf0rt]

I wonder about the commitment....

For instance, been into surround sound here for a few years and if you pick up the network HD "live" feed of most TV shows, it will have 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. Same show delayed on Comcast's OnDemand service has the HD picture, but the sound is stereo. And, it doesn't appear that much effort is put into the audio on these shows anyway. Home-based surround sound is pretty mature these days and the movie studios take it seriously in action flicks. Not so much on anything else.

Think you're both right... Costs nothing to add 3D to a TV, so it will become a standard feature. But, I doubt it will add much to the story line -- a visual gee-gaw. There will probably be some really well-engineered features (thinking "Avatar") that will really use the technology to full advantage, but it won't be real common just because of the production costs.

[W3MIV]

It will sure as hell be a "flash in the pan" with me.

[kf0rt]

It will sure as hell be a "flash in the pan" with me.

Me too, I'm thinkin'....

If this doesn't take off with NFL broadcasts or porn, it probably has no future.

[NA4BH]

I saw the 3D stuff at Sams today. Pretty cool, but not worth the price (YET).

[W3WN]

Farenheit 451.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

I was impressed by the glasses free model I saw but some say this will not make it to the living room for another 10 years.
Flash in the pan? that is what was said about stereo sound a few years ago.
3D TV is expensive right now but will hit the market soon enough.
The current US HiDef TV system flat out sucks and needs to be replaced anyway, why not do 3DTV? the DTV transition went so well why not another fiasco?

[NQ6U]

Flash in the pan? that is what was said about stereo sound a few years ago.

It's also what they said about Quadraphonic sound a few years later--and they were right.

It can be very, very hard to predict how new products are going to fare in the marketplace. When Apple released the iPod, for instance, most everybody in the tech world (including me) shugged it off: "Meh, another MP3 player, BFD." Consumers proved us all wrong.