It's official: 3D is dead

[Lil' ½ Dead]

The tech that once defined CES is now an embarrassing vestige of past ambitions

There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade. You might not realize it immediately, for it's marked by the absence rather than the arrival of a new technology, but it's there and we're all sensing it on a deep, subconscious level. And it feels good.

3D is gone.

You no longer need to pick up a pair of polarizing glasses on your way into a big company's press conference. There are no more 60-foot posters with people exploding out of flatscreen televisions. The super glitzy marketing videos now relate to the far more tangible benefits of higher resolutions, curved displays, and the beauty of OLED. The show floor space dedicated to three-dimensional imagery has been decimated, relegating a dubious technology to its proper position as a sideshow rather than a leading cause to upgrade your TV.

It's a weird and ironic dichotomy. On the one hand, 3D has become ubiquitous enough in televisions that people are unwittingly buying it when opting for a high-end new HDTV to fill their living room void — yet on the other, every big TV maker at CES has waved a clear white flag on trying to sell 3D TV as an important feature. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai spent more time during his keynote talking about professional-grade Sony cameras attracting M. Night Shyamalan over to digital recording than he did talking up 3D. In fact, I'm not sure he mentioned 3D once.


The best way to summarize the demise of 3D TV as a technology that companies and consumers care about is by noting that even Qualcomm didn't bother to namedrop it. The chipmaker's utterly absurd CES keynote, which featured every bad pun, cliché, gimmick, and trope of the electronics industry, didn't feel the need to check off 3D.
As a technology, you're not dead when everybody hates and derides you. Neither will limited commercial sales kill off your chances. But indifference of the kind signalled by this year's CES is the truest symptom of a terminal trajectory.
The 3D TV won its tortured, protracted war — you can buy a 3D TV anywhere and at any time — and nobody could care less.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852452/death-of-3d

[realneil]

3D is dead?

3D never lived as far as I'm concerned.
I feel sorry for those that belched wads of cash to get 3D capabilities.

[Doctor_Death]

The hell with 3D, I would have never bought a 3D TV or Monitor, they cheated a lot of people out of their money knowing it would naver take off.

[Trak]

Geeeeeeeezzzzzz.......never lasted long enough to be a fad...........all those fools who "had to have it"..........

[realneil]

They were telling us that it was the next ~big~ thing. If I hadn't got a headache every time I tried 3D out, I may have bought into it too.
Marketing is powerful in the PC industry. I'm glad I didn't have the cash to burn at the time.

[kewlbreze77]

They were telling us that it was the next ~big~ thing. If I hadn't got a headache every time I tried 3D out, I may have bought into it too.
Marketing is powerful in the PC industry. I'm glad I didn't have the cash to burn at the time.

I don't go to 3D movies because my wife gets headaches as well. Luckily that translated into not buying any of the 3D tvs. But I knew OLED was eventually coming out and had been following that tech since early 2008. OLED smart tv is what I'm waiitng for and I'll wait for them to be a little bit cheaper then what they are right now.

[TeeBlack]

Good i dont wanna be sitting there with those stupid glasses on anyway. They are very annoying. i hope they do away with 3D movies at the theaters too.

[PoLoMoTo]

I got a monitor with 3D, not really because I had to have, just happened that the monitor I was looking at was 3D, doesn't work anyway. I contacted ViewSonic and they told me it only works on nVidia cards even though their newegg listing says it should work with AMD also

[Doctor_Death]

Polo, you should have sent it back

[realneil]

i hope they do away with 3D movies at the theaters too.

Don't go to them and they'll stop playing them.

[PoLoMoTo]

Polo, you should have sent it back

I'm too lazy -_-

[calemus]

if i had the money i'd buy into the nvidia/3d in a heartbeat
ive always wanted it and i still do

[realneil]

Polo, you said you liked the screen anyways. Why return it?
Besides, if you ever get grown-up video cards, you can use it in 3D mode.

[grumpydaddy]

I bought a Sony tv that is 3d capable..... The salesman looked at me as if I had 2 heads when I told him I did not need the 3d glasses (for extra money too)

I think I would like to watch Avatar in 3d though..... just to say I had

[Doctor_Death]

Hey Mike, what size HDTV did you buy ?

[MattyMatt]

And yet, glasses-less 3D was being shown off at CES this year. A lot of people have bought into 3D already, enough to end that push and move on to 4K and 8K.