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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @09:56PM
You're an idiot if you think that movies aren't better at telling certain kinds of stories than books. Movies are primarily visual and auditory in nature and are limited in that respect. You can't tell what people are thinking other than showing them doing things. But, you get a ton of options in terms of how the story is told. You get motion, lighting, sound and other things that language has a hard time communicating.
3D OTOH, hasn't yet shown that kind of potential. Nobody has figured out how to make 3D movies of things other than like plays and plays were something that could be readily handled with the traditional film making tools.
Perhaps in the future, there will be 3D movies that make full use of the technology, but nobody has managed to figure it out with enough consistency to make it worth while.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday February 09 2017, @10:43PM
As Eddie Izzard said: you get a lot of car chases in films, but not a lot of car chases in books.
You can't tell what people are thinking other than showing them doing things.
You've not seen Dune, then? ;)
And isn't one of the rules of writing "show, don't tell"? I.e., don't write "She was angry." Write "She did X angrily."
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