RG Specs

Tech makers think three dimensions are the next big thing after HD… I hope not….at the IFA tech show here in Berlin based on raw square footage in the booths 3D TV is everywhere…. The massive booths of consumer-electronics giants such as Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, and Toshiba are dominated by 3D…. All the 3D at the show had one thing in common: It s lousy…. Much of it was unusually blurry some of the sets that required glasses looked only slightly better than Fraunhofer s no-specs technology demo. None of it rose to the level of being good, and I came away thinking that the level of hoopla was bizarre given the lackluster products being hyped.

3D TV occupies so much IFA real estate because the electronics industry thinks that teeming masses of people are going to be willing to buy new TVs and don uncomfortable, expensive glasses in order to watch three-dimensional content. I think consumers are smarter than that. I think will prove to be a fad or, at least, a mistake….

via Applelinks iPhone And iPad News Reader – Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – Applelinks.com.