I was at Best Buy this afternoon and took a look at their 3D TV setup.
What a crock of shit. It's a gimmick and nothing more.
The TV itself being 3D and all, fine. I've got no problem with it if you're interested in it.
However, the glasses are what bugs me. First of all, 3D is not that important to be wearing bulky glasses every time you watch something.
Secondly, the glasses are something like $120 a piece. WTF?!?! So much for having friends over to watch anything!!!
Our get togethers for big games end up being anywhere from 10-50 or so people. Should I really need to drop $6000 just so they can all watch it in 3D?
Also, why do the 3D glasses need to be powered? Why do they need to be anything more than the Drew Carey models theaters currently use? I'll tell you why. Because they can't charge you $120 for those...
I see a lot of people buying these only to completely turn off the 3D function within a month or two once they realize how much extra effort and cost needs to be put into a nice, but completely unnecessary feature.
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As I understand it, the glasses are actually plugged in to the TV so some sort of signal can by synced between screen and glasses.
There are a few 3D Blu Rays already out there that are bundled with the glasses, but yeah, they are in the $100 neighborhood.
Even if it was cheap, I wouldn't be going the 3D route. I don't even like the Drew Carey glasses in the movie theater.
There are a few 3D Blu Rays already out there that are bundled with the glasses, but yeah, they are in the $100 neighborhood.
Even if it was cheap, I wouldn't be going the 3D route. I don't even like the Drew Carey glasses in the movie theater.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I agree. The technology for good 3D at home just isn't there yet. Not while we still use screen-based televisions.
When we get to the point where th image is drawn directly onto your retina with a low-powered laser that can track the location and orientation of your eyes and thus create a completely virtual screen, then we'll be ready to do things in 3D at home. Say in about 15 to 20 years.
When we get to the point where th image is drawn directly onto your retina with a low-powered laser that can track the location and orientation of your eyes and thus create a completely virtual screen, then we'll be ready to do things in 3D at home. Say in about 15 to 20 years.
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Fuck that. Just plug the A/V feed directly into my spine & translate the signal to neurological impulses.TPRJones wrote:I agree. The technology for good 3D at home just isn't there yet. Not while we still use screen-based televisions.
When we get to the point where th image is drawn directly onto your retina with a low-powered laser that can track the location and orientation of your eyes and thus create a completely virtual screen, then we'll be ready to do things in 3D at home. Say in about 15 to 20 years.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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Fuck that.Malcolm wrote:Fuck that. Just plug the A/V feed directly into my spine & translate the signal to neurological impulses.TPRJones wrote:I agree. The technology for good 3D at home just isn't there yet. Not while we still use screen-based televisions.
When we get to the point where th image is drawn directly onto your retina with a low-powered laser that can track the location and orientation of your eyes and thus create a completely virtual screen, then we'll be ready to do things in 3D at home. Say in about 15 to 20 years.
Just give me a realistic bj machine.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
To quote Dennis Miller (from WAAAAAYYYY back):
"When an out of work iron worker can sit at home and virtually fuck Claudia Schiffer, it'll make crack look like Sanka."
And you KNOW that technology is coming.
"When an out of work iron worker can sit at home and virtually fuck Claudia Schiffer, it'll make crack look like Sanka."
And you KNOW that technology is coming.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Imagine how great it would be to a lazy person living on Star Trek Earth in the 24th century, and never have to leave your home holodeck. Free shelter, free food, and your own personal reality in which you were a god.
I'm sure there were absolutely no problems associated with that.
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I'm sure there were absolutely no problems associated with that.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
By the way, you don't absolutely have to have the glasses to make the new 3D TVs work right. Not if you can blink your eyes in an alternating manner 120 times every second.
I'm just saying.
Because they're a completely different technology. The ones at home blink in time to the TV. The ones in the theater use passive tech in the form of polarized light.
I expect the blowback from the coming 3D TV fiasco will result in better (and cheaper) home projectors that operate like the 3D theater projectors. Dual projection with polarized light and passive glasses.
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I'm just saying.
Also, why do the 3D glasses need to be powered? Why do they need to be anything more than the Drew Carey models theaters currently use? I'll tell you why. Because they can't charge you $120 for those...
Because they're a completely different technology. The ones at home blink in time to the TV. The ones in the theater use passive tech in the form of polarized light.
I expect the blowback from the coming 3D TV fiasco will result in better (and cheaper) home projectors that operate like the 3D theater projectors. Dual projection with polarized light and passive glasses.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Good. It'll be like artificial natural selection. Shit, occasionally people who are h4rdc0r3 MMOG players forget to do things like eat.Leisher wrote:To quote Dennis Miller (from WAAAAAYYYY back):
"When an out of work iron worker can sit at home and virtually fuck Claudia Schiffer, it'll make crack look like Sanka."
And you KNOW that technology is coming.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
They wont take the time to figure out how to breed with real human females.Malcolm wrote:Good. It'll be like artificial natural selection. Shit, occasionally people who are h4rdc0r3 MMOG players forget to do things like eat.Leisher wrote:To quote Dennis Miller (from WAAAAAYYYY back):
"When an out of work iron worker can sit at home and virtually fuck Claudia Schiffer, it'll make crack look like Sanka."
And you KNOW that technology is coming.
It'll work itself out in a generation.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
A proper VR environment could be the answer for all the troublesome fucks unhappy with this reality. Long as the electricity flows, that is. You could use it to pacify prison inmates and subject them to a virtual world that either pacifies or punishes them.
Been good? You get to spend time in a pastoral meadow. Been bad? You get to spend time in the virtual strip club staffed entirely by clones of the Egg Lady from "Pink Flamingo."
Been good? You get to spend time in a pastoral meadow. Been bad? You get to spend time in the virtual strip club staffed entirely by clones of the Egg Lady from "Pink Flamingo."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
"The idiot TV makers spent an enormous amount of time and money trying to get people to buy a television they didn't want in the first place,"
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The problem is that 3D can't be a core selling point at the current level of tech. The pain-in-the-ass factor is a little too high for anyone but those with a strong interest to deal with it. When the tech reaches the point that no glasses are needed, it can be viewed from nearly any angle, and there are some ways to deal with motion sickness in viewers so inclined, then it be to the point where it can be a core selling point. Until then it's just another option almost no one will use.
But large companies with bloated management fall in love with their own ideas, and it takes a major shakeup to get them to stop being morons about it.
But large companies with bloated management fall in love with their own ideas, and it takes a major shakeup to get them to stop being morons about it.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
In related news, Nintendo's 3DS, the 3D version of their handheld game system that doesn't require 3D glasses, has also been a massive failure. I guess they can't give them away.
Not sure who gave the ok to sell these things, but anyone with a 5th grade education should have seen it as a guaranteed failure.
First of all, 3D is a gimmick.
Secondly, maybe the fact that the company released the DSi, then the bigger DSi XL, and then the 3DS all within about 1 year irritated consumers who were sick of buying a new one just to see it trumped a few months later?
Not sure who gave the ok to sell these things, but anyone with a 5th grade education should have seen it as a guaranteed failure.
First of all, 3D is a gimmick.
Secondly, maybe the fact that the company released the DSi, then the bigger DSi XL, and then the 3DS all within about 1 year irritated consumers who were sick of buying a new one just to see it trumped a few months later?
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell