I'm not the least bit interested in 3D.
Posted on 03/09/2010 8:02:31 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
The 3D TV hype machine begun at CES in January rolls on today as Samsung, the world's biggest TV maker, officially announced pricing and availability of its 2010 3D-capable HDTVs, Blu-ray players and home theater gear.
The initial wave of televisions that can handle the new 3D TV Blu-ray and TV formats won't be cheap. The company's first 3D TV, the UNC7000 series, has been available for the last few days and is currently going for around $2350 at Amazon for the 46-inch model ($2600 MSRP). That's a $350 premium compared to Amazon's price for Samsung's closest 2009 non-3D equivalent, the UNB7000 series, while the company's closest 2010 non-3D equivalent, the UNC6500 series, is listed at about $250 less.
Samsung's larger 55-inch 3D TV costs about $3000 at Amazon ($3300 MSRP) while the 40-incher is being listed by online retailers at about $1800 ($2000 MSRP). From the limited 3D TV demos we've seen, we expect screen size to be even more important to enjoying the 3D effect than it is with normal, 2D HDTV. In other words, bigger is better than ever.
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Now you can get screwed by obambi in 3D
I'm not the least bit interested in 3D.
This really looks like the future and I’ll be at the Best Buys door in about a year and a half when the prices fall and I won’t have to eat dog food to afford a set. I could of course demand that the government give me one because I’m entitled to one.
I agree, it is a gimmick. Good movies and shows do not require such a visual distraction, just the sub-par nonsense.
This is going to interest the TV thief in Alaska:
Yeah, and what’s with this ‘color’ thing? That’ll never catch on.....
I’ll be interested in a polarized 3D set, the glasses are cheap and comfortable.
The LCD shutter glasses are too heavy and too expensive. Over a hundred dollars a pop if you need extra.
watch PRECIOUS
“Who wants to hear actors _talk_?” — H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
My wife and I had never enjoyed 3D much at the movies. Those blue and red glasses were a joke. There was one exception to this, and strangely (never a more appropriate word) enough, it was the Captain EO presentation at Disneyland. There were polarized glasses, and the presentation was dynamic and achieved the best 3D effects I’d ever seen. Anyone who saw that little furry teddy bear (or whatever it was) fly right in front of their face will forget it.
Then a month or so ago, I went to our local Sony store and checked out their pre-release 3D floor model. Folks, it was incredibly clear. The depth was stunning.
In one scene there as an animated representation of traffic at a stand still. Every car all the way back looked farther away than the one in front of it. It was great.
I know folks think they won’t like this, but my take on it is that after this really catches on, we won’t be going back to 2D television, EVER.
Imagine watching a sporting event with the baseball, football or players coming at you in 3D.
This is going to change everything. It will truly be like being there, and you’ll have a seat just a few feet from every play.
Imagine a play where you are just a few feet from the characters. It will seem like you are on stage with them. The same will be true for television programs like 24, Chuck, or whatever.
You are about to become a witness to things from just feet away.
Don’t underestimate what is about to take place here.
I own a pair of these 3-D glasses, although it is for the PC and computer games. Dell threw them and a special monitor in as a perk for buying a new PC in December. I, too, was skeptical when they arrived. That all changed when I fired up the first game. They are, in a word, breathtaking. The biggest difference is what I can only describe as separation between objects that are at different depths from the viewer. In addition to the depth separation, all objects do not appear flat, but seem to have the same shape as they do in real life. The effect is stunning, much better than the old 3-D with colored glasses, which looked like a Viewmaster slide that moved.
This will be a revolution in home viewing. The system I have, called Nvidia 3-D Vision, also works with particular HD TVs, but I can not speak to that.
No headaches, nausea, anything; just awesome visuals that really bring whatever you are playing to life. I highly recommend them.
Marc
You are about to become a witness to things from just feet away... *snip* ... This is going to change everything. It will truly be like being there ... Don’t underestimate what is about to take place here.The Revolution will be televised?
As long as the viewer has to wear glasses it’s a toy. I won’t wear the idiot glasses, that don’t get along with my regular glasses, at the theater where I’m doing nothing but watching the movie. At home, where I’m also doing things like reading, chatting with the wife, and just generally living my life, there is simply no way I would even contemplate wearing the idiot glasses.
3D with glasses will change nothing, except lightening a few people’s bank accounts. If they ever get it to work without the glasses then yet it will change everything. But the glasses are just plain a non-starter for too many people.
Exactomundo, buy ammo instead, at the least you can hunt or barter with it.
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