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3-D Television Expected Next Year

Friday, September 18th, 2009
by Ron Schenone

Sony and Panasonic are expected to introduce 3-D televisions next year. The TV’s are expected to cost about the same as HDTV’s currently on the market. But some are taking a wait and see approach since it will be the public who decides how well the new TV’s will be accepted.

According to a recent article it also stated that:

There are concerns that 3-D broadcasts, which require twice the data, will gobble up an unworkable amount of television bandwidth. And some worry that 3-D glasses and graphics won’t make a smooth transition to American living rooms.

Aside from the kooky glasses, people who want to watch television that jumps off the screen will need something to watch. The process of making live television work in 3-D probably would involve a major conversion of broadcast equipment.

These are some of the hurdles that 3-D will have to bridge. I’m not sure that the TV stations are going to jump on the bandwagon, taking into consideration they have just switched over to HDTV. Next, having to wear 3-D glasses give some folks a headache. Plus there is the fact that some of us have a personal preference in how we want to watch TV and I personally don’t see 3-D in my future.

The 3-D revolution will be replaced eventually by holograms. LOL

Comments welcome.

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9 Comments

Alex

September 18th, 2009
at 7:54pm

Holograms? How long before the “holodeck” is available and TV is out the window?

Dean

September 19th, 2009
at 12:17am

I’ve only had a big wide screen for 10 months and our national switch over isn’t until next year. I’m not happy with the expense involved in all this progress.

I think this would sort of take something away from the social aspect of the television in the respect that presumably with the glasses, based on the 3D I’ve seen at Disneyland a couple decades ago, you wouldn’t be able to see other people in the room as well as usual, so when everyone is making back seat commentary about the Super Bowl or how the TV character that they love to hate is such a cheesy, improperly casted, and moronic pig, you wouldn’t be able to get as accurate a reaction from anyone else in the room aside from the verbal response. Sometimes they might rather you shut up and you wouldn’t even know, since good 3D with stuff jumping off the screen usually involves little more than your vision and the screen with everything else being obscured.

I guess video gamers would absolutely love this sort of thing. We might even see it turn up in video arcades first.