Jeash, you guys are funny dissing on the idea of 3D TV at home as worthless, or even worse than worthless. I think that's like someone 50 years ago complaining about color TV being a waste of money and a scam by companies to sell new TVs when everyone already had a perfectly good 20" black and white TV.
That would make sense if 50 years ago they were trying to sell color TVs without any actual color TV broadcasts and making all buyers have to wear special glasses to see the color when it did finally become available. Eventually, all content was broadcast in color, but there's not a chance of 3D becoming ubiquitous in the foreseeable future - most broadcasters only recently made the capital improvements for HD, and won't be likely to plunk down more anytime soon.
3D TV will eventually be a big deal. There are a few technology barriers to it taking over the world but they are not nearly so difficult as the barriers the industry had to overcome to build large flat panel TVs.
See above, and also, 3D broadcasts can not be provided in HD by current ATSC standards. Hard to convince people to buy into 3D for TV when it's a step below HD resolution. You might convince the enthusiasts who already have BD players, but that's still a small market in the world of HD.
The real key tech that needs more work are the screens that through some magic use a slotted lensing system on the front of the screen to produce 3D without glasses. It sounds like that tech is feasible, and if it could be produced, I believe it will eventually make 3D screens a part of our lives everywhere (computers, TVs, phones, everything).
That's all conjecture, as no one has developed marketable tech at this point. The reality is that 3D is being offered as a "wear your glasses" experience right now. As soon as anyone finds out they have to buy extra glasses @ $50-$100/ea, it's going to be a tough sell, especially if they won't necessarily work on another 3D TV. And if you like to host Super Bowl, we're talking the cost of another TV just to have your friends watch.
This is good technology! And the companies that bring it to us deserve to be rewarded.
We may disagree on this, but the public in general will decide that with their wallets. Over the years, the general enthusiasm for new technologies in this forum (ie SACD and DVD-Audio, HD-DVD and Bluray, multiroom audio, etc) has been typically high, so you'd presume that a lack of enthusiasm here might be an indicator that this tech is going to need some work if it's going to make it.
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