3D TV - a second thought

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hammill:scene:I think the real money, and the people most trying to push the tech are the manufacturers of displays and BD players - they need the tech. As seen elsewhere on this forum, you can already get BD players sub-£100 and BD discs at £6-7 and once you've bought your stonking 50" HD TV, you won't need to buy a new one for 5 years, unless...

Unless you've want to get 3D...

Five years? I had my last one thirteen and it was still going when I gave it away on freecycle. I will be very upset if my Kuro does not last at least ten years, whatever happens with 3d.

I too have a Kuro (only 2«months old), and I'm not sure either MOH or my bank manager would forgive me if I tried to get rid of it in only 5 years...

 

[hammill]

scene:hammill:scene:I think the real money, and the people most trying to push the tech are the manufacturers of displays and BD players - they need the tech. As seen elsewhere on this forum, you can already get BD players sub-£100 and BD discs at £6-7 and once you've bought your stonking 50" HD TV, you won't need to buy a new one for 5 years, unless...

Unless you've want to get 3D...

Five years? I had my last one thirteen and it was still going when I gave it away on freecycle. I will be very upset if my Kuro does not last at least ten years, whatever happens with 3d.

I too have a Kuro (only 2«months old), and I'm not sure either MOH or my bank manager would forgive me if I tried to get rid of it in only 5 years...

Good man

 

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the_lhc:scene:
bennyboy71:I just find it a little sad that the whole 3D tech push was started by films and is being hijacked by the sports agenda, that's all. Guess thats where the real money lies though eh, particularly from a marketing and advertising perspective.

Is it being hijacked?

No it isn't, anymore than HD hasn't.

For 3-D in the home to work it'll have to cover everything, thinking otherwise is pretty daft really.

Quite - that's what I was trying to allude to. If 3D is to work it can't just be a niche product. So it's got to work for films and sports and whatever drives consumer uptake. If it stays as just a cinema product, it will be a failure like it was in the 50s, 70s, 80s...

It needs to be in peoples' homes. And for once, the tech is there coupled with the desire of the TV + Player manufacturers who need to keep sales going.

Still think it will take 5-8 years and may fail...

 

[Frank Harvey]

After what has been said, I'm changing my mind about it failing to actually succeeding (maybe), as long as it was accepted for sports and games as well as just movies. With the backing of sports and games (whereas in the past was only movies), I think it has a better chance of succeeding - not that I want it to succeed as I'm more for 4k2k rather than 3D.

I was also going to agree with bennyboy about the 5 year + take up, as most new formats take a good 5 years to settle and become accepted, but maybe we're heading for the quickest take up in history......

 

[Anonymous]

lhc I neither meant to offend, or make a joke at your topic's expense. I was simply stating that I have no interest in watching sport on the box. I am still interested however in what would make ideal 3D viewing material - but I do believe that it is how the subject matter is filmed originally that will make for a good effect, not just the subject matter itself whether it be sport, movies or docs.

Infact on a personal level, I think that wildlife documentaries would make an ideal subject matter for 3D. Lots of close-ups of insects, stampede's of safari animals running towards and over the camera etc. And then there's underwater shots - Aquatic life in 3D might be even more mesmerising than it is in 2D.

 

[hammill]

FrankHarveyHiFi:

After what has been said, I'm changing my mind about it failing to actually succeeding (maybe), as long as it was accepted for sports and games as well as just movies. With the backing of sports and games (whereas in the past was only movies), I think it has a better chance of succeeding - not that I want it to succeed as I'm more for 4k2k rather than 3D.

I was also going to agree with bennyboy about the 5 year + take up, as most new formats take a good 5 years to settle and become accepted, but maybe we're heading for the quickest take up in history......

You may be right, but I have not met one person yet who is interested in 3D in their house. When big plasmas were £8000 I knew I would get one eventually. I just do not feel that way about 3D

 

[The_Lhc]

THE_FORCE:lhc I neither meant to offend, or make a joke at your topic's expense.

As I said I don't mind if you do make a joke, I can't complain about that as I do it in everyone elses threads, just make sure it's a good joke.

I was simply stating that I have no interest in watching sport on the box. I am still interested however in what would make ideal 3D viewing material - but I do believe that it is how the subject matter is filmed originally that will make for a good effect, not just the subject matter itself whether it be sport, movies or docs.

Infact on a personal level, I think that wildlife documentaries would make an ideal subject matter for 3D. Lots of close-ups of insects, stampede's of safari animals running towards and over the camera etc. And then there's underwater shots - Aquatic life in 3D might be even more mesmerising than it is in 2D.

I'm sure it will but I did specifically ask about which sports would make good 3D viewing, so it's a little frustrating when people don't answer the question.

However the thread has veered wildly off track now anyway so it's not worth worrying about, clearly the original question wasn't interesting enough to elicit much of a response.

 

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THE_FORCE: Infact on a personal level, I think that wildlife documentaries would make an ideal subject matter for 3D. Lots of close-ups of insects, stampede's of safari animals running towards and over the camera etc. And then there's underwater shots - Aquatic life in 3D might be even more mesmerising than it is in 2D.

I may become a convert yet to 3D TV! Though I still think that the need to upgrade are kit is being forced upon us to suit the needs of the manufacturers. Why can't a 3D satellite or freeview (free-D-view? TM - I'm trademarking that name!) box feed a interpreted signal into a standard TV and control shuttered TVs without the need to buy a new TV? I do not want to upgrade my Kuro! A new TV is only needed for polarised specs...

 

[Anonymous]

the_lhc:
I'm sure it will but I did specifically ask about which sports would make good 3D viewing, so it's a little frustrating when people don't answer the question.

No worries lhc - though your original question wasn't specifically about sport. You typed 'what the best non-movie 3D viewing experiences are likely to be:' . Now that to me doesn't specifically say sport at all. That says everything that isn't 'movies' -i.e drama, docs, music videos etc.

 

[Andrew Everard]

rob_981:Who's Will Hoy??

 

[The_Lhc]

Andrew Everard:
rob_981:Who's Will Hoy??

Close, very close! But no...

 

[Andrew Everard]

Quite amused by this picture of Sky's Director of Strategic Product Development on a Sony-sponsored 3D newsletter I've just received...

 

[Anonymous]

Andrew Everard:
Quite amused by this picture of Sky's Director of Strategic Product Development on a Sony-sponsored 3D newsletter I've just received...

cant say ive ever heard of "gerry o,sullivan" a strange sponsor for the new active shutter glasses