Comments on: 5 Reasons 3-D Video Will Come to Our Living Rooms

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By: SJ

SJ — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:57:00 +0000

Interestingly I’m unconvinced in the gaming area – particularly first person shooters. I have a 3d vision system and while it’s cool and all that, the locking of the frame rate to half the refresh rate of the display is very limiting. In normal mode I’m used to 250+ frames per second which together with other parameters make for a great experience. In my 3d case I am locked down to 60 frame per second (120Hz display) and the experience is not the same.

By: Andrew @ Personal PPC Coach

Andrew @ Personal PPC Coach — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:41:30 +0000

I definitely think that the gamers will be leading this charge, after all the only other demographic, I believe to be enthralled by 3D are five year olds at Disney World.

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:24:04 +0000

My thesis on this one is that a logical beachhead for this stuff is the iPhone Platform, where you could have glasses that plug into your iPhone, iPod Touch or iTablet (when it comes out), and operate in either 3D overlay mode or Virtual Reality immersive mode.

If interested, here is a post that I wrote on the topic:

3D Glasses: Virtual Reality, Meet the iPhone
http://bit.ly/7WqGi

Mark

By: Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:10:40 +0000

I actually think 3D in inherently easier for consumers to understand than HD. Going back 10 years (some would say even 5 years), you would be hard pressed to get a consumer to accurately describe what high definition meant. Some still have trouble. On the other hand, most consumers could tell you, and probably know almost instantly, what is meant when you say 3D.

As for the glasses, I think we’ll be surprised what consumers will do for new entertainment experiences in the home. I bet if you said a few years ago tens of millions of 50+ year old consumers and retirees would soon play tennis or boxing with motion sensing controllers, we’d have all laughed.

I think the same applies for 3-D glasses today. With 3-D, seeing is believing.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:51:49 +0000

I agree with Rodolfo. I think these companies will have a hard time getting people to wear glasses just to watch television. Movies I can see, especially in theaters, but I don’t think you will see families sitting around all wearing goofy looking glasses. We can barely get people to subscribe to HD service when they have an HDTV, how are you going to convince them to get 3-D service and glasses for their whole family. I think, in the home, 3-D is a niche at best.

By: Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:31:31 +0000

@Rodolfo – I’m guessing you don’t have kids :)

By: Rodolfo

Rodolfo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:29:35 +0000

Like anything that requires behaviour change without giving a revolutionary benefit, 3D TV with spazzy glasses is destined to fail.

I am sure there are other niches (like medical) that could become mainstream markets but entertainment television it aint.