The real problem was timing. They pushed hard to release 3D shortly after the majority of people had just bought an expensive new LCD tv that didn't have support for 3D. When tv's are on the order of ~$1000, its not worth dropping a tv thats only a year or two old for a new one just to get 3D. Then, they didn't wait long enough for attrition to kick in before deciding 3D wasn't desired by the population and dropping it. They were totally wrong in the assumption. I do want 3D. The feature all by itself is not enough though. Maybe 3D + 4K, or other stuff would have caused people to jump sooner. But they didn't plan it that way. They just assumed people would jump and drop thousands of dollars on it then thought people don't want the tech when they didn't. silly.
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The real problem was timing. They pushed hard to release 3D shortly after the majority of people had just bought an expensive new LCD tv that didn't have support for 3D. When tv's are on the order of ~$1000, its not worth dropping a tv thats only a year or two old for a new one just to get 3D. Then, they didn't wait long enough for attrition to kick in before deciding 3D wasn't desired by the population and dropping it. They were totally wrong in the assumption. I do want 3D. The feature all by itself is not enough though. Maybe 3D + 4K, or other stuff would have caused people to jump sooner. But they didn't plan it that way. They just assumed people would jump and drop thousands of dollars on it then thought people don't want the tech when they didn't. silly.