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3-D TV going main stream?

DominiConnor said:
However, at a conference last autumn I saw a screen that required no glasses at all on the iShares stand. Seemed to be some sort of fresnel lens, the iShares people had to cope with the way I was more interested in their screen than products...
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I'd take a 3D screen over ETFs any day!
 
Evil 3D....

I don't mean to be a Luddite, but before you drop your hard earned quanting dollars on a 3D television, give this a read:

ABC The Drum Unleashed - Keep doing that and you'll go blind

On a side note, I don't know about you lot, but when a group of friends and I watched Avatar 3D, two of the guys had to take their glasses off and watch it in blurry-vision, they couldn't adapt and felt annoyed, and possibly slightly ill.

And myself, my brain rallied against it for a while, and then I stopped fighting the 3D and so didn't feel as put off by it, but of course, then I didn't even notice the 3D-ness of the movie either.
 
i really hope 3D TVs don't catch on. i may be the only person i know that hates the 3D idea. i don't even like 3Ds in the cinema.
 
I enjoyed Avatar, but after any sustained period watching 3D through glasses I get a mild headache, and I believe this to be quite common.

TV, as opposed to PC is a 'lean back' experience, and anything that is hassle loses utility fast.

Also it is not child friendly...

My home has slightly more tech than the average, but you have to assume that the glasses will get ingested into the morass of Lego, USB memory sticks, magnets, books, action figures, papers, marbles, etc that characterize the habitat of kids.

They are also pretty fragile, and anything that wants to live in our front room has to be able to survive being sat upon.

So glasses aren't a capital asset, but a consumable, I can see me paying $100 per month in replacements, which seems an expensive way to make my life more hassle.
 
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