With this comes questions and concerns. Will more people start buying 3D TV's now that there is a whole channel devoted to 3D programming? 3D TV sales are apparently on the rise, but some people, including myself do not think that 3D is enough reason to buy a new TV. Obviously, I'm a college student, so spending money on excessive things isn't in my budget at all. However, I still don't think 3D TVs are useful enough to be considered a standard household device, yet. Maybe in the future, exactly how long I do not know, 3D will become the norm. And maybe the same technology that is in those glasses we wear while watching these larger than life movies will be put into normal glasses, and maybe even contact lenses. Who knows, maybe in a few years we'll be driving downtown only to see a 3D billboard advertisement.
Time will tell just what the fate of this 3D fad will be. Will it become a standard? Will it change how TV companies market their programs? There are a lot of questions and answers that hopefully will come to a resolution sooner than later.
for more: CNET
4 comments:
Technology seems impossible to keep up with. This time last year everyone rushed to buy the latest, best, and brightest HDTV and soon after talks of 3D TVs circled. I am content to keep lagging behind. 3DTV sounds great but like you said, what is next? No one wants to hear that the mound the have just bought is now obsolete.
I used to try to keep up with technology, but every time I bought the "latest thing," something significantly better would come out right away. For example, only a few months after I finally was able to purchase an iPod, the video iPod was announced. I'm not great with technology anyway, so I think it's best for me to stay in the dark ages just a little longer. 3D TV might be a great thing, but I really hope it doesn't become commonplace. It's too much of a hassle. Some movies give people headaches, and you can't watch them without glasses. Soon enough these TV's will be outdated too, and then I'll be forced to spend even more money that I don't have on a product that will be nearly useless later on.
I'd take a good movie over a 3D movie any day. Especially when a 3D movie follows the cheesy 3D effects pattern where things pop out at the screen just to pop out at the screen.
There actually is some new cool technology coming out with 3D though.
1. Glasses free. They actually are using a technique that has been around almost as long as 3D movies. It acts basically the same as the normal 3D where it layers two images on top of one another, presenting both to you at once. Your eyes actually always see like this, and your brain does some fun fun calculations and what not, combining the two 2D images together, which creates a 3D image with full depth. When you watch a 3D movie, they stack two 2D images on top of each other, in slightly differing shades, you put on glasses and one eye sees one 2D image, the other sees another, and your brain goes: same-old same-old and creates a 3D image just as if those objects existed. In the this new technique, a thin line of angled mirrors run down the middle of the screen which angles the images to each eye separately and your brain creates the 3D image like normal.
2. 3D preference slider. This allows you to decide exactly how much 3D it will be putting out, from the highest setting all the way down to regular 2D, since each person sees 3D images differently (I for one can't handle too much of it, or I develop a splitting headache, hopefully this will help).
I really hope 3D does not become the industry standard, to me it degrades the visual quality of the movie and distracts. Movies i have seen in 3d just ended up bothering me, the thrill of 3d did not make up for the annoyance of blurriness. I like Larkin's idea of the 3d preference slider.
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