3D and Glasses - Page 2

Actually, now you are talking about the Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods and a measurement of the voracity of the demand.

Of course there will always be demand for televisions, and of course this demand is in part created by advancements in technology. The question is at which points does this demand speed and cool. There are models that are used to measure this but there are so many factors that come into play we would be wasting our time trying to discuss this issue.

I stand by a 10 year period. Consumer Electronics are a very elastic industry and as a matter of fact sales are down. Primarily as a function of the current economy but I hypothesize that we will continue to have weak demand even as unemployment figures begin to improve.

Similarly we have an automobile industry, yes? The average consumer rarely buys new cars every few years, but the industry does not implode.

3D, in my opinion, aint gonna make it. Again, just my opinion. (you have to admit those glasses really are lame)

Last, we have not even accounted for the large percentage of people who are Stereo Blind.

Oddly, after I replied to this last time, a daily page from Insight Media landed in my inbox which says:


http://displaydaily.com/page/2/

If the link brings up the incorrect page, you want the Feb 10 post.

I tend to agree with you, as it seems a decent D cinema unit alone is about that, and it omits the new screen, additional processing and polarizing equipment etc. But I think the OP as well as this blog post are referring to a straight digital conversion, not a 2D film to 3D digital conversion.

I actually agree with the 10 year period on average for TVs, but your original hypothesis was that 3D would fail because most people you knew had just bought TVs and wouldn't be buying for 10 years. My point is that many other people will be at the end of their 10 year cycle and will buy, and because most TVs will be 3D capable next year, people who are in the market for a TV will buy them, and therefore sales of 3D TVs will ultimately happen through attrition if nothing else. Again, whether people will actually use the 3D capability remains to be seen and probably hinges on the quality of the experience and content.


I think people who wear glasses should be insulted by all these posters saying "glasses are dorky". I wear contacts but I don't have any problem with glasses. If people are so vain and insecure that they worry about putting on a pair of glasses to watch occasional 3D content then I think they should be seeing a therapist to discuss their issues instead of watching TV/movies. I wore glasses for years before I got contacts and the main reason I got contacts is that glasses often fog up when you go from hot to cold and vice versa, which shouldn't be a problem with 3D glasses (unless perhaps you are watching "adult" content!)

My favorite complaint is "my friends will laugh at me"...ummm, aren't your friends wearing the glasses too? Perhaps the new "cool kids" will go to 3D movies and watch them without glasses just so they can mock the rest of the crowd!

I went to see avatar the other day in 3d. I absolutely hated it. The 3d experience was fuzzy, dim and just didn't look right. The depth of the images didn't make it seem 3d, but more like Alice in wonderland. I kept thinking during the movie, "man I would really love to see this movie on a regular screen so it would be clear and clean". The visuals of the movie were astounding, but ruined by the 3d affect it was putting off. I was really disappointed. I had hoped it would be cool. I thought it might be a neat addition to home theater, but after seeing that I am definitely not bothering with that at all.

My sentiments entirely

Anybody who posts in this thread is likely to be extremely dorky. Nothing at all to do with whether that person wears glasses other than for 3D viewing or how that person looks.

Wow. That fast? And I thought I was quick. You da man.

I use the nVidia 3D Vision glasses on top my own. Not a big deal. If you don't want to then don't.

RealD is "joining up" with Look3D who is offerring designer 3D glassses that work with the RealD 3D process.

These are to be used when you go to a RealD 3D digital cinema instead of the cheap throwaways they hand out.

http://www.look3d.com.au/collections.html

And RealD said . . .


http://www.i4u.com/article27049.html

There is no other information I can find.

This of course doesn't solve the issue for those who wear glasses and the use of active shutter glasses for home 3D.