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.'"
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%?
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.
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
That was Bruno, as played by Woody Tobias, Junior.
Cheers,
Jim
Strange.
Reading that kind of humor from a Canuckistani.
...my wife is Canadian
I was inoculated during the Trudeau years. He gave us our national debt, the gift that just keeps on giving.
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.
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.
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. ;^)
Quit yer bellyachin'.
The first ones ran on belts from shafts in the ceiling.
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.
I’m holding out for 4-D. Why waste your money on 3-D technology when it will soon be obsolete?
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.
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?
Come to think of it, I can advertise a “4-D” TV if it exists for longer than an instant in time.
The movie theaters are forced to but 3D projectors.
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.
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