3D, am I the only one?

[lostzombies.com]

So, am I the only one who thinks this whole things is just a novelty fad that will die a very expensive death soon? It seems that everyone and their mothers are obsessing over 3D and saving up their money to pay for five 3D satalite channels and an enabled TY.

I mean I understand why Avatar brought it back and that should have been it, every film since has just been a gimmick 3D. I also understand that cinemas/studios get an extra 40-50% on theri ticket charges, sothis may be their way of making up the lost revenue from video piracy.

But the technology is still a gimmick. The benefit it offers is purely novelty and doesnt add anything significant not to mention having to wear stupid glasses and paying out the arse for a special tv.

I saw a tv programme with an 'industry expert' saying that in 4/5 years one in four new tv's sold will be a 3D tv set. WTF? It's taken nearly a decade for HD to even start to become mainstream and that is a genuine massive leap forward in TV technology.

Avatar was a one off, the rest have been cash-cow gimmicks.

Does anyone else feel the same?

 

[TylerC]

You're definitely not the only one, people talk about the novelty factor all of the time.

I don't really have an opinion on 3D, it's whatever.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

You couldn't be more wrong if you were in 2003 and said Mission Accomplished. I apologise, but MILLIONS have the same belief and continue to proclaim on this very site.

No offense intended.

Calumon: The dye-men-shun is going to reach out and grab me! :O

 

[tomtom94]

It would be just a novelty but the big studios have sunk so much money into it they can't afford to let it die, so it'll be shoved down our throats until enough people give in.

 

[killgannon]

Take it you've not read many threads on here lately? Whenever 3D is mentioned pretty much everyone participates in bashing it and calling it a fad. To be honest I'm not that fussed either way, I could take it or leave it... but for me to take it then it would need a significant price drop and get rid of the glasses altogether.

 

[M-JN]

I think the studios are trying to make this the big push into interactive media; like, future theatres will have the smells and feels of what's on screen and things like that. Which is all fine. I think it'll happen eventually, and whatever goes on in the meantime is kind of moot. The problem I have with 3D currently is that it's bad, but there's no way it can't get better with so much resource and money dumped into it.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Maybe you need to pay attention to other people besides yourself. There have been many threads about this, including Yahtzee and you can't beat him by being incredibly late to the party.

 

[Simple Bluff]

So, am I the only one who thinks this whole things is just a novelty fad that will die a very expensive death soon?

I mean I understand why Avatar brought it back and that should have been it, every film since has just been a gimmick 3D. I also understand that cinemas/studios get an extra 40-50% on theri ticket charges, sothis may be their way of making up the lost revenue from video piracy.

But the technology is still a gimmick. The benefit it offers is purely novelty and doesnt add anything significant not to mention having to wear stupid glasses and paying out the arse for a special tv.

I saw a tv programme with an 'industry expert' saying that in 4/5 years one in four new tv's sold will be a 3D tv set. WTF? It's taken nearly a decade for HD to even start to become mainstream and that is a genuine massive leap forward in TV technology.

Avatar was a one off, the rest have been cash-cow gimmicks.

Does anyone else feel the same?

Of course 3D technology is a gimmick, but it's a fairly harmless gimmick. It's just a fancy new tingamajig that companies want to try.

(I coulda swore I heard these complaints back when HD came onto the scene too...)

 

[Snotnarok]

They said color was a gimmick too, I honestly think this whole 3D thing is stupid but there's a decent chance it could catch on.

 

[XJ-0461]

You're

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the only one. And in this case, you most certainly not the only one. Personally I haven't seen any 3D films and so have no opinion either way, but I know plenty of people who think it's only a gimmic.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

It's a transparent push by a group of industries looking for that next big cash cow. They've nearly saturated the HD market, so they need to advance the tech in new direction in order to force everyone to rebuy all of their equipment and media. They've settled on 3D as the shiny new "feature", and they're trying to sell it to all of us as the next big inevitable thing.

Blu-ray is a big part of the initiative. They haven't seen the adoption rates they were expecting from price drops, so they're trying to jumpstart 3D in order to force Blu-ray sales. You watch; you won't see many 3D releases on standard DVD once this whole thing gets rolling.

It's also a very slick way to monetize television sets for all viewers. Right now, if you buy a 60 inch HD TV for your livingroom, additional viewers can enjoy the set without paying a dime. With 3D sets, each viewer needs an expensive pair of glasses, which means every person who watches the TV has to pay for the privilege.

I can't pretend to know the minds of every consumer in America, but I don't know a single fucking person who wants 3D. Everyone I talk to, from family to friends to coworkers, sees it for the gimmicky cashgrab it is, and I think any "polls" to the contrary mean one of two things: 1) the industry manipulates poll data to its own ends, or 2) people are a lot fucking dumber than even I thought they were.

So no, you are not alone. In fact, I'd like to hear from someone who legitimately believes that 3D, in this form, is a beneficial/necessary evolution for entertainment media.

 

[Deathkingo]

No, I hate this whole 3D thing. I thought up the idea when I was about 5 or 6 and I am angry that the idea was obviously stolen from me.

 

[Hosker]

Just about everybody I know thinks this, including me.
It's been around for 50 years or so, and yet everything has to be in it all of a sudden.
Damn it Avatar!

 

[Archemetis]

You've never seen anyone else ***** about the gimmick of 3D?

Wow, where have you been going on this big, big internet?
It's nearing the point where anyone who doesn't sell Cinema tickets for a living thinks it's a ridiculous gimmick, most of those same people still fork out the extra money for the gimmick mind, but that's not the point.

3D is not a revolutionary step forward in terms of home-viewing.
And you're actually wrong in saying that HD was the last big television innovation...
That title belongs to Colour Television.

How is that, you ask?

Well what sounds like the bigger improvement, Switching from Black and White to colour or switching from a perfectly fine resolution to a slightly larger one?

Enhancing pixels isn't innovation. It's merely plastic surgery for your TV.

The next big innovation in terms of Television will actually be the Hologram.

And no, by Hologram I don't mean those 3D TV's that don't need glasses.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

First of all, inb4 someone jumps in with a "You are never the only one" comment. Second, you aren't the only one, but I disagree with you. Well done 3d is no more gimmicky than well done color. And I dare you to look at some early technicolor films, especially The Wizard of Oz and most of the Rogers and Hammerstein films, and tell me they weren't gimmicky. People at the time certainly thought they were. Same thing with talkies -- early talkies were almost all musicals, and people at the time thought that was all talkies could be, never coming close to the artistry of the silent masters.

And while I'm not saying that it's the wave of the future due to the improvements it offers -- good 3d isn't gimmicky, but it's less of an improvement than color film was, and that's still not necessarily better than black and white -- I do think that, eventually, almost every house in America will have a 3d TV. I've said this before, but if you had told me in 2003 that the majority of the population would have an HDTV by the end of the decade, I would have laughed at you. The sets were ridiculously expensive, and every demonstration unit I had seen had a really crappy picture. Today, a decent set can be had for less than $200, almost everyone has one, and they're pretty much the only type of TV still manufactured.

3D will go the same route. Right now, there aren't enough 3d TVs being sold for the price to come down, but it won't be too long before that happens. It's really a minor change in the electronics, so as soon as the economy of scale kicks in, there won't be any reason for the average consumer not to go 3d when replacement time comes up. Whether or not the people who buy the tv sets decide to buy enough sets of glasses is immaterial; they will buy a 3d tv, because that will be the only option.

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You're

[HEADING=1]NEVER[/HEADING]

the only one. And in this case, you most certainly not the only one. Personally I haven't seen any 3D films and so have no opinion either way, but I know plenty of people who think it's only a gimmic.

My inb4 was ninja'd while I was typing.

 

[temporalcrux]

Three-Duh is a intelligent people, obviously. They're actually advertising "2D TV" in stores, because some moron out there can't read a box to see one that says "3D".... though these same morons will probably confuse the Number Two with the Number Three.

Fad or not, HD was looked at the same way, and people such as myself who don't have HD TVs have actually suffered because our satellite or cable was forcibly upgraded, and now our display is so horrible, we actually have to downgrade the signal to watch anything. But now HD is the "standard" and "Standard Def" is sitting there.

Sony promises a new display that'll be cheap, with non-battery glasses (Frankly, I don't understand why the glasses had to have the function built into them anyway), so if they pull it of, they're gonna for HD to sit next to Standard Def on the bench while 3D parades around for a few years. Then before long, the next thing pops up, and you'll make a new thread.

 

[Palademon]

I don't see 3D tv being that popular.
You'll have a bunch of early adopters, like you do with all technology, but eventually people will see it as too much of a pointless hassle.

Hello, 3D porn?

I'm pretty sure the 3D fad will survive JUST for that.

 

[Woodsey]

Fucking hell, this isn't even one of those things where you're probably in the minority - let alone being the only one!

I've not seen anyone on this site say they're interested in 3D before!