It won't go away because from a marketing standpoint manufactures need a hot button to give folks a reason to keep buying new TV's. PQ has reached a level that just better PQ is not enough reason for people to open their wallets. Jumping from 120hz to 240hz and beyond is not enough of an incentive. If the 3D content is there and the 3D hardware quality is apparent then they may be onto something. I don't think I would want to be an early adapter though.
Agree that PQ has peaked (at least in mid to high end sets), but don't believe 3D will catch on until they develop a technology that doesn't need the goofy glasses to work.
Manufacturers should stop focusing on 3D and widgets, and instead work on getting a full browser built in to the TV.
What is with you people who bitch about the "goofy glasses"?! Seriously! The ones on the picture even appear to be wireless!
Wow! It's really staggering how you people are complaining about what comes down to a minor inconvenience (assuming that you don't have vision that requires enormous vision-correction glasses).
As long as 3D is an option and not a requirement, then you are under absolutely no obligation to partake in any 3D experience. But stubbornly refusing just because you have to wear some glasses for two hours in the privacy of your own home is mind-boggling.
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It won't go away because from a marketing standpoint manufactures need a hot button to give folks a reason to keep buying new TV's. PQ has reached a level that just better PQ is not enough reason for people to open their wallets. Jumping from 120hz to 240hz and beyond is not enough of an incentive. If the 3D content is there and the 3D hardware quality is apparent then they may be onto something. I don't think I would want to be an early adapter though.
Agree that PQ has peaked (at least in mid to high end sets), but don't believe 3D will catch on until they develop a technology that doesn't need the goofy glasses to work.
Manufacturers should stop focusing on 3D and widgets, and instead work on getting a full browser built in to the TV.
What is with you people who bitch about the "goofy glasses"?! Seriously! The ones on the picture even appear to be wireless!
Wow! It's really staggering how you people are complaining about what comes down to a minor inconvenience (assuming that you don't have vision that requires enormous vision-correction glasses).
As long as 3D is an option and not a requirement, then you are under absolutely no obligation to partake in any 3D experience. But stubbornly refusing just because you have to wear some glasses for two hours in the privacy of your own home is mind-boggling.