Somethings ‘good enough’ is all it takes.
A Mac totally rocks .... but Win7 is good enough
A iPod totally rocks .... sorry, the Zune still sucks
That said, with my PS3 and the Blu-Ray version of Aliens vs. Monsters - the 3D content with the red and blue gel glasses was ‘good enough’ for me.
Was it phenomional? Nope. Did I see 3D - yeah, was it seamless and flicker free? Yup ... for me, it was ‘good enough’.
I can’t see waiting for the PS3 software to update to I can rent/buy 3D media; then replace my perfectly functional LCD projector just for this gimmick.
It would be different if it were immersive. Plus Panasonic has one coming out this week I think so sony is a bit late.
Immersive 3D is a game changer. But viewing 3d is more of a distraction and gimmick. Yes even with avatar it was distracting to me because I had to where glasses and kept wanting to see what it looks like without the glasses. And then they start to irritate my ears becaus I don’t normally where glasses (especially cheap thinck plastic ones).
But if I could walk around in that environment or manipulate it in some way without the need to for bulky equipment...then you have a winner.
Now here we are... still driving cars, still watching 3D movies and still earthbound.
They needed to figure out what else they can put on the bluray disk to make it worth buying a disc based format.
7.1 sound isn’t really taking off and that appears to be the biggest thing on the discs. Instead of giving french, spanish, pig latin, etc... just stereo sound or sub-titles they are adding all the different languages sound tracks in 5.1 with the english in 7.1.
Well that may be nice if you want to watch in those other languages but it really doesn’t impact the consumer. They would just buy the localized version and get it in 5.1 or live with just stereo.
3D bluray is hoping to really drive bluray conversion. I’ll be honest. DVD is good enough. And I have a 110” screen and DVD is plenty good enough.