squirtyflower said:
3D is just the latest rip off gimmick from the entertainment mejiaaaa, in order to charge us more to go to the cinema and to buy new TVs and DVD players/recorders
some cinemas now sell 3D glasses for a film, but when you go back to use them again they tell you you can't come in with your own!ffs
everyone has been investing heavily in HD TV and DVD players only now to be told they will soon be obsolete due to 3D TV
its all a con
Good thread, I can't be doing with students either. As soon as they leave "uni" and manage to get a job they think they know everything. Bolloxed if I know why.
Anyway, I have to disagree with this post. If I was being pedantic I would say that, on the contrary, everyone
hasn't been investing in HDTV and DVD players. I haven't, and isn't an investment something you may gain on in the future? Hardly applies to TVs then does it, as they lose half their value once you leave the shop with them?
The concept of 3DTV isn't new either and if you'd been paying attention you'd have known this was coming, one day/soon etc and it sounds pretty exciting to me.
Personally, I'm quite happy with my non-flatscreen, non-HD but nevertheless digital TV. Sure enough, flatscreens look great on the wall, but what's the point in getting one if you're going to put it on a unit that you've still got to walk and Hoover round or, worse still, in the corner?
More to the point, the TV companies' output decreases in inverse proportion to the hardware available to watch it on. As examples, who want's to watch dross like X-Factor and Eastenders on a state-of-the-art TV?