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Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam
Slashdot ^ | 4/23/11 | Soulskill

Posted on 04/23/2011 7:18:10 AM PDT by Clint Williams

Phoghat writes

"The entertainment and electronics industries keep trying to push 3D on consumers, even though a lot of smart people have caught on to the fact that it is a scam and not innovation as the industry would like you to believe. From the article: 'This is a bad experiment that the industry is forcing consumers to subsidize. And since they can’t create a better product, they’ve simply latched on to 3D as a marketing ploy that the entertainment and electronics industries can use to trick people into thinking that they are getting a superior experience. It’s only working because just enough people are falling for the scam to keep it alive.'"


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To: Clint Williams

Whats this **** I hear about having to put batteries in the 3D glasses?

Who wants to wear the glasses leta lone put batteries in them anyway?

The whole thing gives me a headache

What percentage of films are compatible with the format? .005%?


81 posted on 04/23/2011 5:19:21 PM PDT by mylife
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To: discostu
Just because it’s the free market doesn’t mean somebody might not get screwed.

Well, the beauty of that is that it is the one "inalienable right" that all people have that should be immune from outside interference of any kind : The right to screw themselves.

No one is forced to buy either an HDTV big-screen of a 3D one.
Stupid people will always be with us. Look. Obama was actually (I think) elected.

'Nuff said.

82 posted on 04/23/2011 5:41:16 PM PDT by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: Publius6961

I finally broke down and bought a 32” flat screen from Calypso for $276 delivered.

I sure am happy I didn’t jump on the bandwagon 12 years ago at $20760


83 posted on 04/23/2011 5:46:25 PM PDT by mylife
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To: blueunicorn6

That was Bruno, as played by Woody Tobias, Junior.

Cheers,
Jim


84 posted on 04/23/2011 5:46:47 PM PDT by gymbeau (Free Tibet! (Limit two per customer))
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To: Jonty30
I’m Canadian.
I have immunity from such propaganda.

Strange.
Reading that kind of humor from a Canuckistani.

...my wife is Canadian

85 posted on 04/23/2011 5:47:24 PM PDT by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: Erasmus
Those Russ Meyer films were the greatest!


86 posted on 04/23/2011 6:00:09 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Publius6961

I was inoculated during the Trudeau years. He gave us our national debt, the gift that just keeps on giving.


87 posted on 04/23/2011 6:08:30 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: xp38

When “Earthquake” hit the theaters, we went to a very old movie house to see it.

When the sub-woofers fired, big chunks of plaster would fall from the ceiling.

It was the most realistic effect I ever experienced.

The movie theater was condemned the next month for major structural defects.


88 posted on 04/23/2011 6:09:54 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Alex Murphy
In 4D?

"You bought the wrong TV sillyhead"

89 posted on 04/23/2011 6:38:06 PM PDT by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: GreenAccord

Don’t feel too bad. I paid $1,999.97 for a Sony 40” XBR4 on Amazon (3 years ago - IIRC). I love the tv. They only got better.


90 posted on 04/23/2011 7:20:07 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Melas

I started out with the WiFi dongle and then did the same thing as you—went wired. Not sure whether it helped or not.

Often when a Netflix program is unplayable I log the problem at the Netflix site. When I try a day or so later, it seems to play OK. Could be just coincidence, of course.

I wonder whether some of their programs are held on servers that get overloaded, or are on WAN trunks that get overloaded. I’m sure they have one helluva server farm...probably more than one—with about a 6 inch diameter fiber to the backbone. ;^)


91 posted on 04/23/2011 7:39:09 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: mylife
Whats this **** I hear about having to put batteries in the 3D glasses?

Quit yer bellyachin'.

The first ones ran on belts from shafts in the ceiling.

92 posted on 04/23/2011 7:46:19 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
I tried to watch Avatar and just could not get past the first 30 minutes, It really was not that good of a picture.

Same here. To me it was a cartoon with cat people. I borrowed the DVD and skipped around. Also saw some on HBO. It is embarrassingly stupid. Unfortunately I can see how the younger generation can be entranced by such eco-jive. The movie made a billion or so....... Millions of people loved it.

93 posted on 04/23/2011 7:48:37 PM PDT by dennisw (nzt - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Clint Williams

I’m holding out for 4-D. Why waste your money on 3-D technology when it will soon be obsolete?


94 posted on 04/23/2011 7:49:46 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 85 days away from outliving Wendy O Williams of The Plasmatics)
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To: Clint Williams
I'm not a fan of 3-D for two reasons:

1. TV sets at home are too small for 3-D to work well. 3-D works best on a BIG screen like you see in a movie theater.

2. The cost of 3-D glasses can be exorbitant.

95 posted on 04/23/2011 7:50:15 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I will wait till they come out with one that will turn a 2-D into a 3-D tv!

I can see the potential for a little scam here. Advertise a "3-D TV" at a smokin' price.

What you deliver is a deep TV set, like one with a CRT.

After all, you promised a "3-D" TV, but it's the buyer's problem if they thought you meant it delivered 3-D content. You obviously meant that the set itself was in 3 dimensions.

Who sez I don't have a devious mind?

96 posted on 04/23/2011 7:51:54 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Come to think of it, I can advertise a “4-D” TV if it exists for longer than an instant in time.


97 posted on 04/23/2011 7:54:39 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: Publius6961

The movie theaters are forced to but 3D projectors.


98 posted on 04/23/2011 8:18:49 PM PDT by discostu (Come on Punky, get Funky)
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To: Peter W. Kessler; Carlos the Iguana
Say hello to Carlos the Iguana, who was sitting in the balcony above you.
99 posted on 04/23/2011 8:31:55 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I paid $840.00 for my Sony betamax in 1979. Blank tapes on sale were $12.00 each while the normal price was $14.00.


100 posted on 04/23/2011 8:34:01 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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