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Jan 5, 2023 · The short answer to this is no, and though we'll be going through how you can watch 3D content in this article, we'll note up top that all of the major TV manufacturers have stopped making 3D-capable televisions.
- The Avatar Effect
- So, What Happened?
- The Poorly Timed Introduction of 3D TV
- The Glasses
- Extra Costs
- The 2D-to-3D Conversion Mess
- 3D Is Dim
- 3D, Live TV, and Streaming
- Problems at The Retail Sales Level
- Not Everyone Likes 3D
Before getting into the "why it all failed," it's important to know why it even started. It's something the "Avatar Effect". Although 3D movie viewing goes back decades, the release of James Cameron's Avatarin 2009 was a game-changer. With its worldwide 3D success, movie studios not only started pumping out a steady stream of 3D movies into movie t...
A lot of things came together to doom 3D TV before it really even started, which can be summed up by three factors: 1. Unfortunate Timing 2. Expensive and Incompatible Glasses 3. Extra Costs Let's take a look at these three and other issues that plagued 3D TVs from the start.
The first mistake was the timing of its introduction. The U.S. had just gone through a major consumer buying disruption with the implementation of the 2009 DTV transition, in which all over-the-air TV broadcasting switched from analog to digital. As a result, between 2007 and 2009 millions of consumers either purchased new HDTVs to meet the "new" b...
Bad timing was just the first mistake. To view the 3D effect on a TV you had to wear special glasses. And, get this, there were competing standards that determined which glasses you had to use, including passive polarized and active shutter. Some TV makers (led by Panasonic and Samsung) adopted a system referred to as "active shutter". In this syst...
Uh-oh, more costs ahead! In addition to a 3D TV and correct glasses, to access a true 3D viewing experience, consumers needed to invest in a 3D-enabled Blu-ray Disc player and/or buy or lease a new 3D-enabled cable/satellite box. Also, with internet streaming starting to take off, you needed to make sure that your new 3D TV was compatible with any ...
Realizing that some consumers might not want to purchase all the other gear needed for a true 3D viewing experience, TV makers decided to include the capability of 3D TVs to perform real-time 2D-to-3D conversion—Big Mistake! Although this allowed consumers to watch existing 2D content in 3D right out the box, the 3D viewing experience was poor—defi...
Another problem with 3D TV is that 3D images are much dimmer than 2D images. As a result, TV makers made the big mistake of not incorporating increased light output technologies into 3D TVs to compensate. However, what is ironic, is that with the introduction of HDR technology in 2015, TVs began to be made with increased light output capability. Th...
3D is very difficult to implement for live TV. In order to provide 3D TV programming, two channels are required, so that standard TV owners could still watch a program normally on one channel, in addition to those wanting to watch in 3D on another. This meant increased cost for broadcast networks to provide separate feeds to local stations, and for...
Another reason 3D failed was the poor retail sales experience. At first, there was a lot of sales hype and 3D demonstrations, but after the initial push, if you walked into a lot of retailers looking for a 3D TV, the salespeople no longer provided well-informed presentations, and 3D glasses were often missing or, in the case of active shutter glass...
For a variety of reasons, not everyone likes 3D. If you are viewing with other family members or friends, and one of them doesn't want to watch 3D, they will just see two overlapping images on the screen. Sharp offered glasses that could convert 3D back to 2D, but that required an optional purchase and, if one of the reasons that the person didn't ...
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Jul 18, 2013 · Actual 3D TV channels are rarer still, and have compromised picture quality Currently there are only two nationwide 24-7 TV channels that offer 3D content: ESPN 3D and 3net .
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Nov 19, 2022 · Dubey says the possibility is still there, even if it seems like a lot of tech and content factors, as well as consumer interest, would need to line up for 3D TV to make a viable return. Still, he ...
May 19, 2023 · The BEST and one of the last 3D tvs from LG was the Oled C6 and G6, I still own a 55inch C6, it's 4k and passive 3D. No other tv comes close to the 3D experience. They gave up on them just as they got good. I also own a Sony with active glasses, whilst the 3D is decent, I hate the glasses and it's nowhere near the level of my c6. The C6 has ...
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Aug 13, 2019 · But the same process could be used to create 3D TVs for the consumer market, a prospect that is now closer than ever thanks to a $28 million investment by Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Taiwania ...
