[mythtv-users] MythTV and 3D ?

[Neil Cooper]

--- On Fri, 1/27/12, phipps-hutton at sky.com <phipps-hutton at sky.com> wrote:

> From: phipps-hutton at sky.com <phipps-hutton at sky.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and 3D ?
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:46 AM
> Don't worry, it's never going to happen. The current '3D' is
> just  
> stereoscopic imaging. You have to sit with your eyes
> horizontal in  
> order to watch it which is not the preferred position of the
> majority  
> of viewers (10% of children watch TV upside down). Also you
> cannot  
> look at different depths because they stay out of focus
> unlike reality  
> which is always better focused than your eyes, trying to
> look at  
> things the cameras are not focused on is what gives you
> headaches.
> 
> To be acceptable 3D TV has to be something like holographic
> and will  
> require lots (hundreds) of cameras (or CGI).
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim.
> 
> 
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The 10% of kids that watch tv upside down will be fine if they just duct tape their 3D glasses on backwards.

Or they could just buy a set of 3D glasses made for the Australian market :-)