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Comments on: 3D is coming to a living room near you

Three-dimensional TV could be the next big thing in home entertainment, or it could be the next big disappointment. Consumers will ultimately decide.

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by 8301 January 15, 2009 10:06 AM PST
I, for one, won't buy a new TV until the technology is extended into at least the fifth dimension.
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by timber2005 January 15, 2009 6:01 PM PST
Well with DVR you at least have the 4th dimension covered.
by mifdez January 17, 2009 10:14 PM PST
just watch Dr Who...he covers all five dimensions
by dascha1 January 15, 2009 10:08 AM PST
Does 'bulge' mean anything to optic terminators?
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by Mergatroid Mania January 15, 2009 10:32 AM PST
It's just a gimmik. If you need to wear glassed to see the 3D effect, it's not worth bothering with.
Sure, seeing the occasional movie in 3D in a theator is pretty cool, but I'm not interested in replacing my expansive widescreen LCD TV just to have a gimmik available.

That said, I have bought a couple of 3D movies that use the colour glasses, but again it was just a wim (and it didn't work any better than it did back in the 50s). I would not be interested in watching TV using glasses of any kind, colour or lcd. And as well, if I'm buying a new movie to take home and watch, I'm not going to bother with 3D since it could only be played on a 3D TV (unless they put both a 3D and 2D version on the same DVD). I'd hate to tell a friend he can't borrow a movie because it won't work on his TV.

Why don't they just add smell'o'vision to TVs? You could smell what's going on in the movie, and they could charge you for smell refills....duh.

That said, I might be interested in 3D for my computer monitor, if it worked well. But of course, that's already available.
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by brief January 15, 2009 2:46 PM PST
They DO put both 2D and 3D versions of the movie on the same DVD... at least they did so with the recent "Journey to the Center of the Earth" movie.
by tommyflorida January 16, 2009 12:30 PM PST
Bring on 3D - it will be awesome. I wasn't alive in the 50's but I recall how much fun I had with my ViewMaster as a kid.
by gtdtm January 15, 2009 11:01 AM PST
HDTV's are cool, but 3D TV seems like another example of companies trying to tell the consumer what they want rather than consumers driving demand for products that they truly want...Some of the economic problems can surely be pinned on the fact that consumers are buying to have the next great thing, not because what they already have isn't good enough. When the money becomes a little more tight, or the credit lines run out people aren't buying the "futuristic" technologies that companies try to push on them...hence a contraction in retail spending.
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by Inconnux January 15, 2009 11:03 AM PST
I want hologram tv! :)
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by ncaissie January 16, 2009 11:05 AM PST
Me too.
That would be a better step then 3D.
Have a big square table in the middle of your living room with a cube of holographic TV. That would be Awesome.
by loose_screw January 15, 2009 11:15 AM PST
I saw them at CES, and I was not impressed. The 3D technology is far from perfect, and they gave me a headache after a little while. Also, the fact that you have to put on special glasses to view them pretty much makes the technology a dud. I mean, if I have the TV on in the family room and I'm in the kitchen cooking, I don't want to have to wear glasses to view the TV. SUCK.
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by galeso January 22, 2009 2:31 AM PST
Now putting the TV into the glasses so you only need glasses would be very Cool.
by blusky08 January 24, 2009 11:40 AM PST
YEAH, THEY ALREADY HAVE LCD VIEWING GLASSES:
https://www.zetronix.com/index.php?cPath=26

IF YOU HAVE TO WEAR GLASSES ANYWAY, WHY NOT SKIP THE EXTERNAL TV COMPLETELY??
by blusky08 January 24, 2009 11:49 AM PST
WHOOPS.
THEY ALREADY HAVE 3D LCD GLASSES!
http://www.zetronix.com/product_info.php?products_id=124
by The_happy_switcher January 15, 2009 11:22 AM PST
Might be cool for porn.
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by karpenterskids January 15, 2009 12:44 PM PST
3-D porn? Ooo...you might be on to something there, young man.
by Logotrope January 15, 2009 2:13 PM PST
48DD in 3D?!?
by dctech08 January 16, 2009 3:41 AM PST
lol
by ncaissie January 16, 2009 11:05 AM PST
Thats where smellevision may be good (or bad) LOL
by joebuck January 15, 2009 12:03 PM PST
every 30 years 3D makes a come back and every 30 years it disappears, hey anyone remember SCTVS 3d house of horrors.
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by ErnieTheBear January 15, 2009 1:00 PM PST
I'm trying to think of how I could be any less interested in 3D, without being comatose or dead. It's just not coming to me. A 10-minute movie at Disneyland or a planetarium is fun every couple of years, but more than that? Pass, thanks.
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by dallasvaughan December 28, 2009 6:50 PM PST
Live sports (like the article references)? Video games?
by dallasvaughan December 28, 2009 6:52 PM PST
I just realized I replied to a year-old article. I need a beer.
by 2ndfallout January 15, 2009 2:26 PM PST
I for one think it is a pretty cool idea. I'm not big into the glasses, but either way it would be awesome to play video games like CoD5 in 3D!
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by uhpl508 January 15, 2009 2:36 PM PST
I think I'll be more interested when glassless 3D makes it to my computer or cell phone screen and what hardware manufacturers will have to do to create useful interfaces for working like that.
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by WORSTBABY January 15, 2009 3:45 PM PST
there are people today rewashing paper plates that only last year bought a 65 inch plasma. let's all get really real here. your foreclosure notice will likely be a very exciting 2 dimensional black and white piece of paper.
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by Kev_Orng January 16, 2009 10:51 AM PST
Well, could be worse. Could be raining.
by RobertFHarwood January 15, 2009 4:47 PM PST
I didn't see an explanation as to why there needs to be a different TV other then to interput the signal so that the left and right signals can be put it on the screen. If so it is only a converter box of a difference.
Also, I noticed that the Red Camera has a standard camera mount that has a setup for 3D by adding a second camera and mounting the cameras on the left and right post instead of the center ones.
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by tekwiz4u January 15, 2009 5:01 PM PST
3D is a FAD. It will pass like it did with the Rubik's Cube and JAWS 3 in 3D.
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by EdMazza January 15, 2009 5:49 PM PST
For those who think that 3D TV is just another gimick, Wrong. Yes glasses are still a bit hokey. However, today there are many glasses free screens available. As the screens improve with higher definition and better refresh rates, these screens will provide a better 3D televison experience. Take a look at manufacturers such as Alioscopy, Sharp, NewSight. Many manufacturers that are producing the glasses versions of the 3D screens are touting release in 2010. I believe that a viable glasses free TV screen will be ready for the market at the same time.
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by cardcltr76 January 21, 2009 4:50 PM PST
I have a mitsubishi hdtv and have already seen Journey to the center of the earth in 3d.
With the glasses the 3d was very good and I didn't have to buy a 3d tv.
Barry Sokolsky
by cjbuchmann January 15, 2009 8:49 PM PST
If im gonna get 3d, I don't want to see the 3d in front of me. I want to be immersed in the center of it. See into the middle of the action! More like a holographic interface. If you can do that, then sign me up! Otherwise, I wouldn't touch it with a nine and a half foot pole!
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by cyberspittle January 15, 2009 9:00 PM PST
Why not have the glasses on the TV so we don't have to look like dorks? Can't the 3D lens be in front of the TV or does the filter (glasses) have to be a certain distance from the screen. 8^D
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by random truth January 15, 2009 9:37 PM PST
no it cant. The 3d illusion is because it is feeding your eyes 2 different pictures.
by EdMazza January 16, 2009 10:06 AM PST
The glasses on the TV as you put it already exists. It is called a parallax filter. This filter feeds seperate visions to the left and right eye. The best screens have six or more channels so that it can be viewed over a wide range across the front of the screen and not just directly in front of it. Many manufacturers will be producing higher density screens which will improve the clarity of the 3D image. GLASSES FREE TV IS ON ITS WAY.
by Writerman-UK January 16, 2009 2:20 AM PST
No matter how good the technology, I won't be rushing out to buy it. You can bet your bottom dollar that, just like HD, that wonderfully perfect picture will be ruined by the dorks at the TV station stamping a logo over it. Just imagine what fun the broadcasters will have with 3D DOGs.

As a grumpy old man, I find all these advances in TV technology quite depressing. Better picture, better sound, better everything except programmes. A few decades ago I had only four channels but could usually find something worth watching on one or two of them. Now there are dozens of channels but I'm often stuck to find one single item worthy of my time in an entire evening.

There's one good thing to come out of all this. I am rediscovering reading.
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by Kev_Orng January 16, 2009 10:58 AM PST
Well, I'm not a grumpy old man, I'm just wary of extra monthly bills I don't need. But I'm with you. Four channels for free off the rabbit ears. I'm just a converter box away from getting them in HD. And there's usually something to watch on one of those four, if I'm in the mood for TV. Paying for TV, pfft.

Plus, I don't live in the US so I have another two years before I have to get the converter box.
by BSinton January 16, 2009 8:05 PM PST
There is also the Internet, where lots of good things abound, well like the cnet site we are on.

I spend more time on the Internet than watching TV. Use Google to look up anything.

I am old but hopefully not grumpy (only 78)
by memeroot January 16, 2009 2:57 AM PST
Will probably be looking to upgrade my plasma in a year or so, 3d without much price increase would be a feature that would make me coose one set over another... what we need most however is standards and support.
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by dctech08 January 16, 2009 3:44 AM PST
3d glasses? hummmm. so then, when you invite friends over to watch TV, you gotta have extras. might be fun for the rich and experimental. my sister gets migraines from such images.
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