Is the Industry Souring On 3D TV?

TVPredictions.com ^ | May 26, 2010 | Philip Swann

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the HDTV list.. HDTV pings!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Internet enabled 3D TVs will be used for porn. There will be relatively little regular source material.

[mgstarr]

[dila813]

I tried out the best 3d tv that they had at the Fry’s Superstore, wasn’t impressed.

They said it will be more effective if the screen was bigger and the room is dark like a theater. That just isn’t how we watch tv.

We will wait, not worth the price and in our mind it didn’t work.

[norraad]

"Jumped the shark right from the start!"

[MississippiMan]

I remain amazed at the amount of money that was surely sunk into a technology that had virtually zero chance of widespread consumer acceptance. Folks are not gonna sit around in their homes wearing $200-each glasses to watch TV. Never had a chance.

MM (in TX)

[ETL]

Ralph Kramden (Honeymooners, 1955):

“Do you want to know the reason I won’t buy you a television set, Alice”...Do you really want to know the reason?...the reason?...Well, I’ll tell you the reason! I’m waiting for 3d television!”

http://www.techjaws.com/ralph-kramden-3d-tv-is-here/

[Ramius]

I’ve got no particular interest in 3D. If I’m going to wear something on my head to watch a movie it should be full-immersion VR. Now THAT would sell.

[Arthur McGowan]

the dirty little secret is that BROADCAST HDTV is a bomb. Everyone I know who tries to receive it over the air has problems with reception.

[cvetic]

Eh, broadcast television is a waste of beautiful spectrum anyway. The sooner it dies, the better off we’ll all be.

[ken in texas]

The subject of 3D TV reminds me of the line from Jurassic Park which went something like "... you spent all this time thinking about what you can do, but never thought about what you should do...".

[RangerM]

But then you’ll have liberals claiming a “right to cable TV”.

Hell, for all I know they already do.

I see the future of digital TV as coming from Cell Phone towers. You subscribe to Verizon/AT&T TV and always have the same line up no matter where you go.

[Ken H]

If I'm going to wear something on my head to watch a movie it should be full-immersion VR.

[G Larry]

I called this as soon as it was announced on this ping list.
The demand for 3D will be very limited.

[Nepeta]

the dirty little secret is that BROADCAST HDTV is a bomb. Everyone I know who tries to receive it over the air has problems with reception.

When it works, it's wonderful.

However, a lot of time it doesn't work. I live no more than 7 miles from the transmitters--and 4.5 miles from some--but there are still frequent dropouts from low signals. That's with an antenna aimed properly--and NO, I am not down in a valley.

I think I might need something like the Very Large Array to capture the digital transmissions from out of town stations I used to receive in analogue transmissions, however. Digital just doesn't get out there.

HDTV transmission needs to be fixed before anything else. And yes, there is a place for OTA television.

[Ramius]

I don’t know why we still bother with OTA broadcast. Cable simply has more bandwidth and less latency and a more reliable signal. Game, set, match.

[Arthur McGowan]

Here in N. Dakota, people routinely picked up analog TV 100 miles from the transmitters. Not anymore. Now, I can’t get two out of the five Fargo stations—and I live in Fargo.

[JSDude1]

I am ~not~ going to wear glasses to watch TV.

[moonhawk]

I have almost zero problems with OTA HDTV. I’ll never go back.

Or look back, in case I turn into a pillar of salt.