Consumers not Willing to Buy New TV For 3D, Finds Survey
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Having just bought a new tv the other weekend and not going 3D I can say it's simply down to the fact I paid £600 for a 42" edge LED LCD panel, Samsung 40" 3D was £400 more, which is a fair whack to watch what, five movies currently available in 3D (non that i like)?
And it's not like there's much due to come out in the next six months - my xbox, ps3 and wii don't support 3D for games yet and my HTPC has an ATi card not nVidia so no 3D there (well, not natively, gotta fiddle with middleware) and at any rate it's not like anything was built to work in 3D so it would all be system generated 3D which won't be as good.
So we're looking at over a year before much 3D content comes out, if any does, maybe another year to see which technology is the winner and by that time we'll have non-glasses 3D tv's using parallax barrier technology or similar and I'll be due a new TV
And it's not like there's much due to come out in the next six months - my xbox, ps3 and wii don't support 3D for games yet and my HTPC has an ATi card not nVidia so no 3D there (well, not natively, gotta fiddle with middleware) and at any rate it's not like anything was built to work in 3D so it would all be system generated 3D which won't be as good.
So we're looking at over a year before much 3D content comes out, if any does, maybe another year to see which technology is the winner and by that time we'll have non-glasses 3D tv's using parallax barrier technology or similar and I'll be due a new TV
Total waste of money. Even if I had infinite resources, I wouldn't buy one even as a curiosity. 3D sucks, and I can't wait for this stupid trend to die. I hate James Cameron.
I'm thinking that 3D will eventually join motion controls as an essential component of console gaming, much like HD and shiny graphics is now.
I dont even have an HDTV. I watch everything on my computer, and go to my friend's/parent's house to play Xbox.
Besides, I'm holding out for Sony's 'holographic projector' tv.
If I had the cash, I'd sooner upgrade my PC for 3D, considering there is probably more actual content. Same boat as Kinect and Move; make some decent products for it and it will be more appealing.
If you currently own a 3DTV, what do you use it for? Two or three movies? I really don't know. Groundwork for the future I suppose...
Besides, I'm holding out for Sony's 'holographic projector' tv.
If I had the cash, I'd sooner upgrade my PC for 3D, considering there is probably more actual content. Same boat as Kinect and Move; make some decent products for it and it will be more appealing.
If you currently own a 3DTV, what do you use it for? Two or three movies? I really don't know. Groundwork for the future I suppose...
Well as soon as they come up with a system that allows me to enjoy 3D, I may just try it. The problem is that I'm practically blind on my left eye, so the system they need to come up has to be one hell of an innovation, more in the direction of sci-fi holograms
I wouldn't buy a 3D television even if a had the couple grand they cost just lying around. 3D is a waste of time and money. I even drive to movie theaters farther away that are playing a movie I want to see in 2D just so I don't have to watch the annoying "revolutionary" 3D effects and pay the extra $3-5 dollars for a pair of obnoxious and uncomfortable plastic glasses.
Yes seriously and no they aren't the standard cinema glasses. The ones that cost that much are from sets that flicker alternate eye images; the glasses have to shutter the eyes alternatly at a speed that has to be carefully matched to the TV's frequency, otherwise the viewer gets a pretty nasty picture if not a migraine.sooperman said:
So you got tv to glasses communications, a battery and an LCD switching system all strapped into the frame of a what are surprisingly normal looking glasses. Costs a few pennies.
The tech behind that in the TV isn't too expensive mind so I wouldn't be surprised if one day soon all new TV's roll out with 3D built in and you just buy glasses when you decide it might be worth having 3D.
I bought a great TV in 2000, a 36" Sony Wega behemoth and it lasted me till 2011. It is still good but I wanted HD and to get back 2 feet of space in my living room. So I got a new Vizio 47" LED tv (for less than the price I paid for my Wega). Maybe in 2022 I'll get another TV...
This just in:
THE SKY IS BLUE!
Seriously, did Sony think otherwise when it came to their fake-3D tv's? They're prohibitively expensive and rather useless since there is so little fake-3D media to play on it. I'm never getting one of those things, and nobody who isn't in the higher tax bracket will either.
THE SKY IS BLUE!
Seriously, did Sony think otherwise when it came to their fake-3D tv's? They're prohibitively expensive and rather useless since there is so little fake-3D media to play on it. I'm never getting one of those things, and nobody who isn't in the higher tax bracket will either.
Stereo Anaglyph (red/cyan) is perfectly viable as an initial push for 3D games and movies. The glasses are dirt cheap, and it doesn't require new hardware. The only problem is that people ***** about chromatic aberration caused by the lenses. When it comes to movies, this is reasonable - but there is no reason a game can't compensate for it by design.
There is no reason why we can't have this kind of 3D game right now. This would initially mean 'dumbing down' the graphics, but if Katamari Damacy has taught us anything it's that graphics don't matter if the game is fun.
There is no reason why we can't have this kind of 3D game right now. This would initially mean 'dumbing down' the graphics, but if Katamari Damacy has taught us anything it's that graphics don't matter if the game is fun.
Man I wish I had a sound sample of the NBA Jam announcer going "THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN!" for this story. 3D TV is such a terrible idea in this economy especially just after people spent tons of cash updating to HD. Hell, some people don't even have HD. If not for my HDMI computer monitor, I wouldn't even have HD.
Thank you common sense!
3D contributes nothing to the quality or enjoyability of videogames or movies in the grand scheme of things. The only people I can see actively embracing the gimmick are the people who line their pockets with cash from the extra price tag that comes with anything that has 3D in it.
3D contributes nothing to the quality or enjoyability of videogames or movies in the grand scheme of things. The only people I can see actively embracing the gimmick are the people who line their pockets with cash from the extra price tag that comes with anything that has 3D in it.
What is all this common sense and sanity people are talking about? This is Sony people, they thought it was a good idea to make people download a rootkit virus if they wanted to listen to a music cd on their computers few years back. Do you really think that one survey will stop them?