Tidying up some cupboards and came across this booklet. Did 3D Tv ever arrive?
by evolvedmammal
32 comments
I thought it was going to be a revolution, the best appication of it was that Puss In Boots 3D – that was absolutely top draw in terms of using the 3D and still without a doubt the best 3D movie I’ve ever seen – we flew too high with this technology.
It arrived, stopped briefly for a coffee, we decided we weren’t feeling it and it left again
Arrived 2010, left by 2012. Absolutely pointless unless you liked headaches, dark screens and didn’t mind half the family moaning they didn’t have glasses.
My parents had a 3D telly. You needed to sit wearing glasses that needed to be charged up, and the effect was quite subtle, my brain would just filter it out after a few mins.
There’s one waiting to be taken for recycling outside my sister’s house right now.
I quite liked mine, it’s the bedroom telly now but at the time I used the 3d quite a bit.
We still have our 3D tv and glasses that didnt need charging- same type as a cinema.
Worked great on the 3D bluray. Never paid for sky.
Mate of mine had one- it was fairly pointless. If you weren’t sitting in the correct spot the effect didn’t work and as a glasses wearer it was an encumbrance that didn’t really work.
Our student Union bar put one of the football games on the projector screen with the 3D, and I remember a bee flying past the camera and me ducking thinking it wasn’t part of the TV 😂
My only memory of them is playing Call of Duty zombies at a friend’s house. Fun novelty but largely pointless, VR fully took over that target market.
It was pushed for a while. The Queen did her speech in 3D once, and I think they used it for a Wimbledon final too. Then we never heard about it again.
I don’t know anyone who bought a 3D TV, although it was being pushed at the time. It would have become a useless gimmick pretty quickly.
I worked in richer sounds when they were the big new thing. The industry killed it themselves before it was able to get off the ground. Each had their own model of £50+ glasses for the active (good option) so you’d need to fork out another £100 or more if you had a family. The glasses cost pennies to make, and only worked for that brand. The passive option was much cheaper, but the quality was pants in comparison.
I heard many years ago a radio interview with Steve Wright on BBC Radio 1 and he was interviewing a guy about 3D and the guest essentially said it was a gimmick in that it was a thing in the 1950’s / 1960’s at cinemas to combat the new TV fad and in the early 80’s to combat home video taping etc.
He was essentially saying 3D was rolled out every now and then to combat some other technology.
I was all in. Fucking loved it. Had a huge Sony curved 3D Bravia. Superb. Was gutted it didn’t take off but I’ve still got a good collection of 3D blurays.
They still make 3d home cinema protectors; always been tempted…
I think 3D arrives every couple of decades or so. It’s hyped up every time, people get sucked in and go “Wow this is great!” then get bored and fed up wearing the glasses and realise it’s actually rather pants. Then it’s forgotten about for a couple of decades or so and…
I really enjoyed 3DTV, especially the few video games that supported it.
I also really miss Force Touch from my iPhone 😔
While we’re at it, can we bring RSS feeds back?
“3D TV is coming”. They are the words of House Television, whose banner is a grey TV on a field of white.
I heard it was good for watching golf.
It was pushed because adoption rate of 1080p TVs got close to saturation point, and affordable 4k TVs were a few years away, so they needed a gimmick to push nee sales for a few years until 4k was cheap enough for mass market.
Sony went big on it with blurays and console support, but physical media was starting to die, it required a fair whack of processing power, other film studios didnt buy in that much, and there wasnt a dominant standard ( powered vs unpowered glasses, several different file formats).
Then 3 years later TVs that were 4k and/or huge were cheap enough for mass market, so people just started buying those instead
They seem to be giving it a go every 30 years or so, using the same basic technology, and people fall for it every time
The question is when will it be “coming again”. Probably 2040 would be my guess.
It seemed like a lot of money to spend just to watch Avatar again.
When we got out first LED TV in 2014 the options were curved screen HD, 3D HD, or 4k. Against my wife’s wishes we went 4k. We still have that TV and in 2021 she admitted for the first and only time that I was right and she was wrong!
I had one but it wasn’t worth the bullshit of only watching a few 3D films as you sat with your glasses on looking like a group of rednecks dropping acid
People didn’t really like the idea of feeling sick whilst sat at home watching TV.
I remember trying some glasses on to look at one in a showroom. Instant nausea. No thanks.
A mate of mine spent a lot on one, told me it was shit after a couple of weeks and returned it. Must have been a bad decision as he denies ever buying one now.
Absolute waste of time.
Remember Sky Sports doing a promotion near me for the football. Glasses made you feel like you had drank more than a few pints.
I had a 3d TV and used the 3d once to watch dredd 3d
No, by “coming” they meant “a load of wank”.
My tv is 3D. Had it 10+ years. Came with 2 different types of glasses. Never once had any 3D material on it. But it does have a button on 5he remote right next to the volume that can change the picture to different styles of blurry.
I have a distinct memory of walking into a Best Buy maybe somewhere near London when 3D TVs were meant to be the next big thing, I remember there was a 3D TV which looked AMAZING without needing any glasses
I never saw anything like it after that didn’t require glasses, and I’ve never seen a Best Buy in the UK since either thinking about it
I never bought a 3d tv as I thought it was just a fad. Engaging smug mode
32 comments
I thought it was going to be a revolution, the best appication of it was that Puss In Boots 3D – that was absolutely top draw in terms of using the 3D and still without a doubt the best 3D movie I’ve ever seen – we flew too high with this technology.
It arrived, stopped briefly for a coffee, we decided we weren’t feeling it and it left again
Arrived 2010, left by 2012. Absolutely pointless unless you liked headaches, dark screens and didn’t mind half the family moaning they didn’t have glasses.
My parents had a 3D telly. You needed to sit wearing glasses that needed to be charged up, and the effect was quite subtle, my brain would just filter it out after a few mins.
There’s one waiting to be taken for recycling outside my sister’s house right now.
I quite liked mine, it’s the bedroom telly now but at the time I used the 3d quite a bit.
We still have our 3D tv and glasses that didnt need charging- same type as a cinema.
Worked great on the 3D bluray. Never paid for sky.
Mate of mine had one- it was fairly pointless. If you weren’t sitting in the correct spot the effect didn’t work and as a glasses wearer it was an encumbrance that didn’t really work.
Our student Union bar put one of the football games on the projector screen with the 3D, and I remember a bee flying past the camera and me ducking thinking it wasn’t part of the TV 😂
My only memory of them is playing Call of Duty zombies at a friend’s house. Fun novelty but largely pointless, VR fully took over that target market.
It was pushed for a while. The Queen did her speech in 3D once, and I think they used it for a Wimbledon final too. Then we never heard about it again.
I don’t know anyone who bought a 3D TV, although it was being pushed at the time. It would have become a useless gimmick pretty quickly.
I worked in richer sounds when they were the big new thing. The industry killed it themselves before it was able to get off the ground. Each had their own model of £50+ glasses for the active (good option) so you’d need to fork out another £100 or more if you had a family. The glasses cost pennies to make, and only worked for that brand. The passive option was much cheaper, but the quality was pants in comparison.
I heard many years ago a radio interview with Steve Wright on BBC Radio 1 and he was interviewing a guy about 3D and the guest essentially said it was a gimmick in that it was a thing in the 1950’s / 1960’s at cinemas to combat the new TV fad and in the early 80’s to combat home video taping etc.
He was essentially saying 3D was rolled out every now and then to combat some other technology.
I was all in. Fucking loved it. Had a huge Sony curved 3D Bravia. Superb. Was gutted it didn’t take off but I’ve still got a good collection of 3D blurays.
They still make 3d home cinema protectors; always been tempted…
I think 3D arrives every couple of decades or so. It’s hyped up every time, people get sucked in and go “Wow this is great!” then get bored and fed up wearing the glasses and realise it’s actually rather pants. Then it’s forgotten about for a couple of decades or so and…
I really enjoyed 3DTV, especially the few video games that supported it.
I also really miss Force Touch from my iPhone 😔
While we’re at it, can we bring RSS feeds back?
“3D TV is coming”. They are the words of House Television, whose banner is a grey TV on a field of white.
I heard it was good for watching golf.
It was pushed because adoption rate of 1080p TVs got close to saturation point, and affordable 4k TVs were a few years away, so they needed a gimmick to push nee sales for a few years until 4k was cheap enough for mass market.
Sony went big on it with blurays and console support, but physical media was starting to die, it required a fair whack of processing power, other film studios didnt buy in that much, and there wasnt a dominant standard ( powered vs unpowered glasses, several different file formats).
Then 3 years later TVs that were 4k and/or huge were cheap enough for mass market, so people just started buying those instead
They seem to be giving it a go every 30 years or so, using the same basic technology, and people fall for it every time
The question is when will it be “coming again”. Probably 2040 would be my guess.
It seemed like a lot of money to spend just to watch Avatar again.
When we got out first LED TV in 2014 the options were curved screen HD, 3D HD, or 4k. Against my wife’s wishes we went 4k. We still have that TV and in 2021 she admitted for the first and only time that I was right and she was wrong!
I had one but it wasn’t worth the bullshit of only watching a few 3D films as you sat with your glasses on looking like a group of rednecks dropping acid
People didn’t really like the idea of feeling sick whilst sat at home watching TV.
I remember trying some glasses on to look at one in a showroom. Instant nausea. No thanks.
A mate of mine spent a lot on one, told me it was shit after a couple of weeks and returned it. Must have been a bad decision as he denies ever buying one now.
Absolute waste of time.
Remember Sky Sports doing a promotion near me for the football. Glasses made you feel like you had drank more than a few pints.
I had a 3d TV and used the 3d once to watch dredd 3d
No, by “coming” they meant “a load of wank”.
My tv is 3D. Had it 10+ years. Came with 2 different types of glasses. Never once had any 3D material on it. But it does have a button on 5he remote right next to the volume that can change the picture to different styles of blurry.
I have a distinct memory of walking into a Best Buy maybe somewhere near London when 3D TVs were meant to be the next big thing, I remember there was a 3D TV which looked AMAZING without needing any glasses
I never saw anything like it after that didn’t require glasses, and I’ve never seen a Best Buy in the UK since either thinking about it
I never bought a 3d tv as I thought it was just a fad.
Engaging smug mode