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Hot Or Not — 3D TV
Several sources have written to tell us that in terms of hype at this year's CES show, there is none bigger than that surrounding 3D TV. Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, LG, and Toshiba all have their own flavors of hardware and ESPN announced a 3D sports channel, but Microsoft seems to be bucking the trend with their apparent lack of 3D interest surrounding the Xbox product. "We're yet to see any major brand at CES pushing a 3D TV that doesn't require them. In most cases these aren't the basic Ray Ban style you might have worn to watch Avatar. In many cases they'll actually require power. For example, Sony's 3D TVs use a 'frame sequential' display method, which involves active-shutter glasses that turn on and off in sync with the images. Some TVs come with the glasses and have the transmitter built in, but again, in some cases you'll need to buy the transmitter and glasses separately."
Why must an economy grow to maintain it? Isn't that a bit like a cancer?
You claim, 'people need jobs and something to work on' And yet, we have people the world over without food or shelter, at the same time we have double digit unemployment. How is it that our current economic system can not find a way to match unemployed individuals with work that needs to be done to provide even basic necessities?
How do you know anything about the OP? How can you say they know nothing about the engineering and development that goes into the world?
The point the OP was trying to make is that high end TVs are overpriced and laden with features that most of us don't want or need, just to justify the price increase. Without these continual 'improvements,' companies would not be able to justify their high margins and prices would come down more quickly.
That's the OP's theory, anyway. But rather than address the theory, you engage in personal attacks against the individual making them.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Even if there is a market for featureless, large TVs, the manufacturing oligopoly will not create them, and the barriers to entry are to high for a newcomer to compete with the entrenched players. Thus, we will be stuck either paying for dubious features, or make do with smaller than necessary TVs.
For the record, hunger and homelessness are very big problems in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton