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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) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @08:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @08:41PM (#465590)

    I own a 3DS and think Nintendo got it right for another reason also. The parallax vs focal distance of the 3D effect remains reasonable.

    Parallax is how much your eyes have to look inward towards each other. Focal distance is how your eyes adjust to focus depending on distance. Normally these two do not deviate from each other. On a 3D screen, they can change the parallax but not the focal distance. This can cause eye strain and headaches. This is also why I prefer 2D tv over 3D tv.

    Nintendo allows you to set how much parallax there is...you can select a value you're comfortable with. Also, nothing comes out of the screen towards you. Closer to your eye, the parallax the focal distance change much more with distance.

    Nintendo does it right. It isn't annoying or distracting, it is immersive. It makes up for the low resolution. I like my 3DS, and I have a 4k tv hooked up to my gaming computer.