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[quote=The Verge]There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade. You might not realize it immediately, for it's marked by the absence rather than the arrival of a new technology, but it's there and we're all sensing it on a deep, subconscious level. And it feels good.
3D is gone.
You no longer need to pick up a pair of polarizing glasses on your way into a big company's press conference. There are no more 60-foot posters with people exploding out of flatscreen televisions. The super glitzy marketing videos now relate to the far more tangible benefits of higher resolutions, curved displays, and the beauty of OLED. The show floor space dedicated to three-dimensional imagery has been decimated, relegating a dubious technology to its proper position as a sideshow rather than a leading cause to upgrade your TV.
It's a weird and ironic dichotomy. On the one hand, 3D has become ubiquitous enough in televisions that people are unwittingly buying it when opting for a high-end new HDTV to fill their living room void — yet on the other, every big TV maker at CES has waved a clear white flag on trying to sell 3D TV as an important feature. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai spent more time during his keynote talking about professional-grade Sony cameras attracting M. Night Shyamalan over to digital recording than he did talking up 3D. In fact, I'm not sure he mentioned 3D once. Here are some quotes from our live blogs covering the big players' pre-CES events this year:
[quote]Samsung: "Surprisingly (and thankfully), nobody has handed out any 3D glasses."
Sony: "This is way better than that time Sony made us watch a 3D video of Taylor Swift playing live in front of us."
LG: "Now on to Cinema 3D TVs. 7 series and 21 total TVs for 2013."[/quote]
That's it, a footnote tacked onto the end of LG's expansive TV portfolio refresh. Samsung mentioned 2D-to-3D conversion in passing, and admittedly Netflix is getting involved in a limited fashion with 3D streaming, but the technology that once defined CES is now basically an embarrassing vestige of overheated ambitions of the past.
The best way to summarize the demise of 3D TV as a technology that companies and consumers care about is by noting that even Qualcomm didn't bother to namedrop it. The chipmaker's utterly absurd CES keynote, which featured every bad pun, cliché, gimmick, and trope of the electronics industry, didn't feel the need to check off 3D.
As a technology, you're not dead when everybody hates and derides you. Neither will limited commercial sales kill off your chances. But indifference of the kind signalled by this year's CES is the truest symptom of a terminal trajectory.
The 3D TV won its tortured, protracted war — you can buy a 3D TV anywhere and at any time — and nobody could care less.[/quote]
Called it.
You didn't need glasses to see what fate was in store for 3D.
3D tvs won't be popular until they can figure out how to do it without glasses
Wait till holographic television appear.
praise TV Jesus.
Thank God. Fuck 3D TV.
[QUOTE=download;39152984]3D tvs won't be popular until they can figure out how to do it without glasses[/QUOTE]
Already possible (philips has some). They still have a shitload of crosstalk though.
I always liked the 3D TV's but only the real high quality ones that do 3D better than most cinemas.
They cost too much is all, not worth it.
... But I actually liked the 3D.
My PC Monitor has 3D support and it really works well in games. Looking down a mountain in Skyrim is breathtaking.
Then again, I don't use it THAT much.
[QUOTE=BCell;39152990]Wait till holographic television appear.[/QUOTE]
If that happens I hope that it won't be a fad.
Good. Fuck you, James Cameron.
Good. I didn't like how all the higher end TVs insisted on being 3D. We have a Smart Panasonic because we wanted the apps and internet but it came with 3D too (glasses were an optional extra, safe to say we didn't bother).
[QUOTE=download;39152984]3D tvs won't be popular until they can figure out how to do it without glasses[/QUOTE]
even then... it won't be worth getting.
[editline]9th January 2013[/editline]
i'm waiting for 8K tv to arrive.
Finally.
Good.
Never seen 3D tv :v:
Oh goodie, now they can work on something actually fucking useful like better picture quality
[QUOTE=download;39152984]3D tvs won't be popular until they can figure out how to do it without glasses[/QUOTE]
Well then I guess it must already be popular?
The best 3D method right now is VR but it's limited by resolution, framerate and also the fact that there is no eye tracking to adjust focus/convergence so it looks unnatural and strains your eyes not to mention that in videogames using 3D means a performance hit because the stereoscopic 3D isn't hardware accelerated and many prefer better framerate over 3D.
There should be more focus in higher resolutions, better colors and framerates not something the current technology isn't capable of doing right.
[QUOTE=danharibo;39153156]Well then I guess it must already be popular?[/QUOTE]
Did you notice they are not?
[QUOTE=download;39153197]Did you notice they are not?[/QUOTE]
There are already glasses-less 3D televisions, there are even some that don't degenerate into a complete mess when you view them at the wrong angle. They still aren't popular since I don't think they are being brought to market.
Didn't even work for me
Not yet, they're very expensive to manufacture.
But economics tells you that eventually they may become cheap as current televisions. Given the right conditions.
I've never seen a 3d movie or used a 3d tv. How does it even look like? Like those blue/red 3d pictures?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;39153383]I've never seen a 3d movie or used a 3d tv. How does it even look like? Like those blue/red 3d pictures?[/QUOTE]
I saw The Amazing Spider-Man in 3D. Very dark, and 3D is very rarely used and unnoticeable, DoF is used instead. Piece of shit. Well, if they brightened the movie a bit, it wouldn't be such shit.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;39153383]I've never seen a 3d movie or used a 3d tv. How does it even look like? Like those blue/red 3d pictures?[/QUOTE]
No it's just like a regular Movie but you can tell the depth of things in the scene.
3D is pretty neat in theaters, I hope it doesn't dissapear. You usually have the choice of watching a "2D" version anyway. At home it's more of a gimmick.
Titanic.
[B]IN 3D!.....[/B]
I feel sorry for one sighted people who have to put up with all this 3d bullshit they can't even see.
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