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The Joke Known As 3D TV
harrymcc writes "I'm at IFA in Berlin — Europe's equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show — and the massive halls are dominated by 3D TVs made by everyone from Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic to companies you've never heard of. The manufacturers seem pretty excited, but 3D has so many downsides — most of all the lousy image quality and unimpressive dimensionality effect — that I can't imagine consumers are going to go for this. 'As a medium, 3D remains remarkably self-trivializing. Virtually nobody who works with it can resist thrusting stuff at the camera, just to make clear to viewers that they’re experiencing the miracle of the third dimension. When Lang Lang banged away at his piano during Sony’s event, a cameraman zoomed in and out on the musical instrument for no apparent reason, and one of the company’s representatives kept robotically shoving his hands forward. Hey, it’s 3D — watch this!'"
If you don't want it, then DON'T BUY IT! Why is this so difficult for these anti-3D trolls to undertstand?
Slashdot of maybe 5, definitely 10 years ago, would be full of technology buffs and computer geeks who would agree with us.
Slashdot of today however, we are a very rare breed. It is very sad, but you see it in literally every story comment section. Every last one :/
You see people commenting "I've been using computers all of my life, since my first windows 95 machine, and in my vast experience let me tell you why I know best that....."
almost as common as you see "This technology sux0rz!"
Then you see people go out of their way to post in articles they clearly (and usually out right state) they have no interest in.
And it is close to 25-30% of the posts :(
The level of noise to signal is ear shattering.
No, I am not sure what exactly happened to cause that. But that is what made it get worse, as all the older geeks that lived through the true beginnings of technology ran away to better greener pastures. (At least I assume and hope so... I seem to have been left behind as I can't find said pastures)
I too really miss having a technology site with an enthusiastic user base :(
I've been telling people that Cameron got Avatar "right" in terms of 3D exactly for this reason.
Yeah. Its a great tech demo. (As long as you learn to look where the director wants you to look. Try and look at those out of focus flowers projected to look like you can touch them with your fingertips though and you get a headache.)
Its also too bad Cameron got Avatar so "wrong" in terms of actually being a good movie.