Put on your dorky cellophane glasses: 3D TV is coming! But will it just be a bad straight-to-video sequel to the old Free-to-Air HD scam?
article-article-bodyPut on your dorky cellophane glasses: 3D TV is coming! But will it just be a bad straight-to-video sequel to the old Free-to-Air HD scam? Crikey‘s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane weighs in:
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Thank you Bernard. As always, lucid with a mild touch of cynicism.
Agreed. Two thoughts: (a) publicity I have seen (very little) suggests that the 3D-watchers don’t already wear spectacles. For those of us who do, presumably a different version of the glasses will be needed…which leads me to (b) non-3D TV can be watched by one person, several, by people coming and going (think of the screen wallpaper in the pub, OK you’d rather not). Do we keep a pile of 3D glasses/clip-ons in our living rooms for casual visitors? Add to that that the output will be blurry for anyone not wearing the magic glasses, and you have a recipe for a medium with a shrinking audience. Contrast: the Good Old Days of 3D movies; you committed yourself to sitting and watching for the duration, and there was only one ‘channel’. Does make me wonder if the best hope is for home movies – if any movies are made in 3D, that is.
Excellent. They should give you a gong for services to demonizing craven rent seekers.
I can’t figure this out. Is he practicing to be a ventriloquist? If so, he’s pretty bad. Maybe he just has the world’s most inexpressive face. I couldn’t decide which bored me more, his commentary of his face.