Maybe so at the moment, but like any new medium it has to mature. Personally I will choose a 3d showing over the 2d equivelent every time now!

I've been selling B&O through several waves of new technology. High definition TV, flat panels, and iPods are the big ones so far. In every case, customers responded to the zeitgeist and came to B&O with the desire to see "our take" on things. They were generally enthusiastic and were eager to adopt the technology. It was just a matter of our serving up the right product. 

With 3D it's been very different. Very few people ask about it, indicating to me that despite an extraordinary marketing push to get people talking, there's no real interest. Furthermore, when they do ask about it it's more like, "Do I have to do this? Is there a way around it?"

I think there are so many more things that are important to a good TV experience than 3D and at this point there's very little to watch. Add to that the cost of glasses, which can top $400us per pair. 

I like 3D in a cinema (although it makes me sick), but on a TV, I am not convinced... however, people won't understand why you have to pay 5 times the price of a kikinoko TV and not get all the features...

TripEnglish wrote:

With 3D it's been very different. Very few people ask about it, indicating to me that despite an extraordinary marketing push to get people talking, there's no real interest.

Tell me 'Trip', as a matter of interest, are there any 3D TV channels in the States?

In the UK there are and this could have an affect upon its eventual take-up by consumers, just as HD TV channels have helped accelerate the adoption of HD TVs. The subscription based Sky sports channels are very popular in the UK and sports fans have enthusiastically embraced (and paid for) the broadcasts in HD. Now they are broadcasting in 3D, many fans may be very tempted.

I still have my BV3, it's 3D, physically :-)

I'm going to be blunt here, it will be pornography that will make it mainstream.  If you look at the development of Video, DVD, Internet Media, it was the porn industry that made these things common and I suspect that 3D will go mainstream when some company starts chucking out LCD panels for your computer and the costs plummet.

Of course ther may be other factors at play; sports will bring down the costs of the cameras and it might be gaming that makes the TV producers jump on the bandwaggon but it wil be pornography that gets the panel costs into the mainstream price bracket

For me it is a nice gimmick, that's all.

Seen it, found it impressive, but that's all.

I would try (a little bit) to compare it with DD and DTS and sorts of that. It is a nice feature which you use with movies. But for daily use I can't see the benefit.

For the use of the sound (DD an DTS) options you need more speakers of a certain quality to experience the best of it. For 3D I think you need a much larger screen than the average 42 inch used at the moment to make the most out of it.

Add that to the fact that there isn't a standard for 3D at the moment, and I'll wait and see. I can't see the urge to implement it on short base.

There are more examples from the past (CDi, DCC etc) that didn't make it.

About the 3D. The methode used with 2 pictures on left and rightside of the panel doesn't give you the full benefit of your screenresolution and/or full picture. The 3D demo broadcastchannels doesn't give you the same picture (in size) as the 2D broadcasts.

BnoBlueBoy wrote:

apparently the new 85" is 3d

Probably this would be the one that make sence, but probably for me not affordable 🙁

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