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3-D Television is Dead... So What Next?

posted by on Thursday February 09 2017, @04:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the death-of-curved-tvs dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Back in 2010 Sony Australia's Paul Colley forecasted that a large percentage of Australian viewers would have 3-D televisions by 2014.

In the same year, industry pundits such as Simon Murray predicted that sales of 3-D TVs were set to increase in the years to come.

But others were heralding the death of 3-D TVs and this year the remaining major manufacturers, LG and Sony, have said they will no longer produce 3-D-capable televisions.

So despite all the repeated push and positive predictions, what went wrong with 3-D TV?

Tim Alessi, LG's director of new product development, acknowledged this year that:

[...] 3-D capability was never really universally embraced in the industry for home use, and it's just not a key buying factor when selecting a new TV.

Sales of 3-D TVs have been in decline for several years, according to data from analysts NPD. In 2013, 3-D TVs accounted for 23% of TV purchases in the United States, but this dropped to just 8% in 2016.

Is 3-D TV dead, or will it rise again?

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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday February 09 2017, @04:46PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday February 09 2017, @04:46PM (#465077) Journal

    Is 3-D TV dead, or will it rise again?

    I dunno... i'm still waiting for the Trump tweet to tell me what to think!

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @05:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @05:40PM (#465112)

    We'll bring back 3DTV, it'll be great. And we'll make **AA pay for it.
    #therealdonaldtrump

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @06:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @06:51PM (#465165)

    I want the technology to download my brain into 140 UTF-1024 characters and tweet it to everyone's televisions.