Anyone for 3D?
Television manufacturers and the cinema, and now games console manufacturers, are currently busy trying to foist 3D technology on us. Now that's fine and all, but does anyone actually want 3D technology. I have not met one person who is actually genuinely interested in seeing things in 3D, for any amount of money.
3D, for certain films, does look good. Avatar looked good in 3D. So do Pixar films. But it hardly redefines anyones perception of film. I haven't tried any 3D games yet, so I can't really comment, but they probably look quite good, just not good enough to justify the astronomical price of a 3DTV or, of course, wearing the stupid glasses.
This, price aside, is the main problem with 3D technology. However much they say they don't mind, no one, anywhere, wants to wear those stupid glasses. It's massively presumptuous of a piece of consumer electronics equipment to assume that everyone is willing to dress up in order to use it properly. I can't think of any other entertainment device that demands I wear a specific item of clothing before I'm allowed to see it properly. This is before you take into account that I, at least, have to wear glasses to see the TV anyway. Which means if I want to watch in 3D, I have to wear double glasses. Which looks ridiculous on a cosmic level.
And no, I'm not switching to contact lenses just so I can watch television in 3D without looking like a monumental idiot.
There are numerous articles that I can't be bothered to cite right now where 3DTV manufacturers claim, after their pointless product has sold below their expectations, that consumers 'need time to adjust to the idea of 3D glasses' or some such balls.
Surely this is not how consumerism is supposed to work? Their job, as manufacturers, is surely to provide us, the consumers, with products we want or need? Not come up with a product that nobody wants, then try and ram it down our throats and claim we only don't want it because we 'haven't got used to it yet.'
Generally, new consumer products come along to make our lives easier, because we're all fundamentally lazy bastards and like that sort of thing. 3DTV actually makes life more difficult, because you have to wear the stupid glasses. And sit in the right place. And not move your head. I'd kind of get if there were people all over the place watching films and saying 'wow, if only I could see this in 3D!' Only NOBODY does that. So what, actually, is the point?
Oh, also, watching stuff in 3D for a long period of time makes your eyes hurt. Which is great, obviously.
