Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then?
proper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I got a 3d tv after seeing fury road 3 times in theaters.
The issue is that 3-d content was, at best, 1080p. That’s 720p per eye. And on a 4k tv it looks low res and shitty.
plus the active lenses remove a lot of the brightness during the opening/closing, so the picture was darker too.
if it was anything close to what it was like with passive glasses in the theater I believe it would have caught on.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They made 3D TVs with passive glasses too, I had one. Still have actually, working fine 10 years later.
Has some neat tricks like coming with two pairs of “game” glasses that are effectly two left lenses for one person and two right lenses for the other, giving the ability to play a two-player split screen game with each player having a full-screen view (albeit stretched) and not being able to see the other! Trippy.
IMO the reason they didn’t catch on wasn’t the technology, just that it genuinely didn’t add much to the movie watching experience. What makes a movie worth watching continues to be the movie itself, and in some ways 3D - which was meant to be “immersive”- was actually just a distraction from the movie which frequently reminds you you’re actually just sat in a room watching a screen, rather than letting you get into the story.