As if the headaches weren't enough- 3D warps your vision

Originally Posted by a homewrecker

Really, Brady? Avatar?

O yeah, so groundbreaking.

This is a valuable post from a valuable member of Gamingforce.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

If you enjoyed Avatar, there's no amount of intellectual rationalization I can make to change your mind.

Why would you want to try and change anyone's opinion on anything to begin with? Why can't people just enjoy stuff without needing to provide rationalization for some asshat on the internet?

Originally Posted by Shin

That's a slightly silly comment to make on a message board where half the people reading are probably doing so on a monitor that cost several thousand dollars or sitting in front of a large HDTV that cost about the same. 3D TV's are coming out about the same price as LED tv's and are no more expensive than any other new technology at launch. I'm not sure it's even possible to buy CRT televisions any more so who knows whether in ten years time you'll still be able to buy 2D ones.

Well, the leap from SDTVs to HDTVs is a much larger, more justifiable leap than HDTV to 3D HDTV. Not to mention the fact that initial support out the gate is very low, and you need more than just a TV to enjoy it, you need to buy a pair of ugly $150 3D glasses. This alone makes it FAR from the same thing as jumping from CRT to LCD. It's a gimmick, and a shitty one at that. The only way 3D will ever catch on is if they find a way to do it without requiring those horrifically overpriced and stupid-looking glasses.

And even then I highly doubt it will ever be the standard. It will be a choice. The Nintendo 3DS has the right idea with giving you the ability to switch between 2D and 3D, and allow you to toggle the amount of depth you have on screen. Not to mention the ability to do all this without wearing stupid glasses.

I mean seriously, the glasses alone are a dealbreaker for 3D ever getting widespread adoption from anybody other than the richest dumbasses on the planet. Imagine inviting some of your friends over for a football game?

"Hey guys, come watch the game at my place, IN 3D!"
"Oh cool, we'll be there!"
"Don't forget to give me $150 so I can buy everyone a pair of lame-as-fuck glasses!"
"Fuck that shit!"

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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Says the guy who immediately goes on to try and convince the world how terrible 3D is.

What?

I wasn't berating anyone's opinion or enjoyment of anything, I was challenging one person's prediction that 3D is going to gain widespread adoption in the home the way HDTVs have. I wasn't calling Shin an idiot with shit taste the way you succinctly did when JohnKimble dared to mention liking the dreaded A-word, I was simply counterpointing his argument with points of my own. In some circles, this method of communicating ideas is called a discussion.

If we're talking about opinions of 3D, I agree with Brady. 3D has the potential to be a really awesome technology for films. It works extremely well for 3D IMAX films, and having worked for 8 months at an IMAX theater that showed nothing but 3D educational films I can certainly vouch for its effectiveness when used properly and used on the right movies.

As it stands now, it's just a poorly-implimented gimmick tacked onto shitty movies to sell overpriced tickets at the cinema and overpriced hardware at the electronics store. The problem isn't that 3D is inherently bad, it's that 3D is handled extremely poorly. Hollywood execs aren't learning from the mistakes of the first few waves of 3D and are doing things the way they always did, but with a bit more shininess.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.