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Author Topic: 3D TV is "dead?" - Hollywood Reporter Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-10-2011 07:24 AM                        quote: Source: wired.com The eye-popping spawn of Avatar reach critical mass this month when, for the first time, 3-D openings will outnumber wide-release 2-D movies at the box office. I don't know....sounds pretty alive and robust to me.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-10-2011 03:48 PM                        You do realize this thread is about TV, right?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-10-2011 10:05 PM                        Oh yah...you are right. Actually I did forget, but still, the point is, 3D movies are still as popular as ever and we are way past the 50s' watermark of 3 years foreray into 3D and certainly past the 80s time-frame which was even shorter. 3D movies keep being churned out. And as long as 3DTV sets can be used to bring those 3D movies into the home, even if 3D television per se isn't generated by the broadcast industry, there will always be a market for consumers to watch their favorite 3D BluRay movie on the 3DTV home theatre. So I'll speculate that whereas 3D broadcasting might be giving a death rattle, 3D DISPLAYS will be alive for decades. SMPTE has its second conference on stereoscopic technology -- big thing happening is the progress on 3DTVs that display without glasses.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 05-11-2011 05:21 AM                    quote: Frank Angel big thing happening is the progress on 3DTVs that display without glasses. if this is the case where I don't have to wear glasses then I will eventually get one. I can't stand wearing the glasses. Global 3D TV Shipments Soar in 2011 Sales of 3D TVs are apparently taking off this year and reach a global shipment volume of 23.4 million units. ZoomIHS iSuppli said that the growth is expected to end up at 463% this year and will drive the industry well beyond the 2010 shipment result of 4.2 million units. "In a major recalibration effort, television brands are changing strategies this year following lukewarm response to 3-D in 2010 when consumers balked at the high price of sets and the lack of 3-D content," said Riddhi Patel, director for television systems and retail services at IHS. "In 2011, however, brands are marketing 3-D not as a must-have technology but as a desirable feature, similar to the approach they have taken with Internet connectivity." Growth is expected to continue in the years to come: iSuppli expects growth of 132% in 2012 to 54.2 million units. In 2014, 3D TVs will sell more than 100 million units per year and hit 159.2 million in 2015 - if the market research firm is correct. One motivating factor for the purchase of 3D TVs are falling prices. Prices declined by 9% in March 2011 alone. However, consumers will have to accept active shutter glasses with their 3D TVs now. You will have to wait until passive 3D TVs will become mainstream and surpass shipments of active shutter glasses 3D TVs, iSuppli believes.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-11-2011 04:20 PM                        I have a display that will play 3D video without glasses. Just don't move your head much. It's kind of funny because now home technology has once again exceeded the movie industry where you still need to wear those idiotic glasses.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-12-2011 07:33 PM                     ...and then the whole point of using 3D to offer the public a unique theatrical experience goes down the drain. Okay, except for idiots like me who go specifically to wear the glasses.  |  IP: Logged

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