3D, here to stay or just a passing trend?

[Fairlight]

Regarding the porn thing: SO TRUE.

Pornography has been the #1 consumer of internet bandwidth from day 1. Our current society loves to pretend that sex isn't the primary motivator of human behavior, but it is. Sex sells. Is anyone surprised that free sex sells *REALLY* well?

 

[WastedResources]

I hate effing 3D movies. The picture just isn't crisp enough. There are too many elements that aren't in focus. It's a neat trick, but kind of a novelty.

 

[TimMechEngr]

My biggest complaint is the awful glasses you have to wear. I need prescription glasses and am not fond of contacts (wore them for a few years), so I have to put a pair of glasses over my glasses. And, no, I am not going to invest in prescription 3D glasses just to watch a movie a few times a year.

This is my biggest complaint as well. I too, wear prescription glasses, and wearing glasses over glasses is a real pain. I experience the same problem with IMAX movies. You're so completely surrounded by the movie, you can't move your head fast enough to catch everything and see it in focus. I would much rather see any movie in wide screen format sitting in the center row, center seat.

 

[spinyeel]

You can guarantee one thing. The first generation,over priced,3D compatible Televisions will be piles of crap.

 

[Kenno]

When you look at how expensive it can be to go to the movies, tickets, popcorn parking etc, plus they want you to pay extra for 3D up to 3 bucks it can be for a lot of people just a special occasion thing.

I really do think if they uped the resolution of the image and got better speakers and amps they would bring in more people to cinemas for a longer period than 3D ever will. 3D's images tend to focus on what is jumping out at ya insted of the whole image. I might view the world in 3D but I don't view it the way it is in the cinemas with things jumping out at me.

I don't think I would want to watch sport in it either.

 

[DFrancis]

This is my biggest complaint as well. I too, wear prescription glasses, and wearing glasses over glasses is a real pain. I experience the same problem with IMAX movies. You're so completely surrounded by the movie, you can't move your head fast enough to catch everything and see it in focus. I would much rather see any movie in wide screen format sitting in the center row, center seat.

+1 I like my glasses and don't want to have to get contacts, also any movie in 3D I can't go to because SWMBO gets bad headaches from it. Once the novelty has worn off I think it will be no big deal anymore... at least I hope so.

 

[proxymoron]

Ebert gives it a thumbs down.

Sure, he's cranky but makes a good point. You're already getting the illusion of 3D from conventional 2D. Though stereoscoping changes the nature of the artifice, you're still only getting 2D and that dimmer, less comfortable to watch, and typically tacked-on as a post-production marketing trick.

I'm first in line for a holodeck, though.

 

[mretzloff]

Our current society loves to pretend that sex isn't the primary motivator of human behavior, but it is.