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How much do we know about the future of 3d tv's?

Whats down the road? Is it gonna survive with such little content available right now? Is it wiser to wait and see either a price drop or a sans glasses solution? Is there any reality to the attachment to make normal tv's 3d? I want to adopt 3d so bad, but so far its lookin like HD DVD...

Public Comments

1. 1. What's down the road? The high-priced sets now on the market will get cheaper. Other manufacturers besides Samsung and Panasonic will be marketing 3D sets. Sooner or later (mainly later), some company will come up with an outboard active-shutter adapter that will permit full 3D on a 2D set with the right features. And way down the road...some type of entirely new multidimensional display that might permit 3D without glasses. 2. Is is gonna survive with minimal content? Probably, but added content will be slow in coming. In requires entirely new video productions with dual-lens cameras and all the technology necessary to get that dual image to your active-shutter TV. It's a huge investment and not every channel or network will have the resources to make it happen fast. 3. Is it wiser to wait for a price drop or sans-glasses? Prices will surely drop in time, and maybe a lot. As for sans-glasses, that will be a very, very long wait. 4. Will an attachment work? There are some gadgets that *simulate* 3D, and some say they look pretty good. But simulated 3D is not true 3D. You can't get true 3d (not yet, anyway) without two discrete images, one for each eye. That gets you back to the dual-lens issue in question #2.
2. 3DTVs have only been out for 4 months now. It's way too early to judge their success or failure. Only one major network (ESPN 3D) exists and others won't get going for at least a year or two. Only a few animation movies are on 3D Blu-ray right now too. When all the recent 3D movies come out on 3D Blu-ray, the demand for 3DTVs will definitely go up. Prices will drop when 3D compatibility becomes more common. I read an article that said 80% of all tvs sold in 2014 are going to be 3D compatible. Also, I'm skeptical about how well any glasses-less 3DTV is going to work. If they are anything like the current auto-stereoscopic displays, the viewing angle is very narrow and the picture isn't as clear as a regular tv. Even if they do come out with glasses-less 3DTVs, the older 3DTVs with glasses are still going to work fine. There is no way to make the current normal tvs work with the new 3D systems. 3DTVs have specialized hardware that no other tv has and a simple adapter won't work.
3. 3d tvs have just come out. This is not really the year for 3d tv. This is just the getting it set up stage. Next year more tv companies will offer 3d tv and movie studios in connection with blu-ray will start getting 3d movies released on the blu-ray disk. By the end of 2011 that is when they will have 3d tv ready to move forward. Content will begin to rise. 2012 will really be the year 3d tv begins to take off. I don't mean it will take over, but content like disks at best buy and on cable stations will definitely be available.
4. It is definetly here to stay this time. It will be very prominent in gaming. It also utilizes max storage on a BD. I'd say worry about having a 3D TV between December and February, since that's when most content will be available. Also you can wait for prices to bend during that same time. I'm over here just waaaaaaaiting for new content.