[mythtv-users] OT: 3D TV

[Mike Perkins]

Justin Johnson wrote:
> With all the 3D tv's announced at CES last week, and broadcasters beginning
> to experiment with it I wanted to see what people thought about it. From
> what I've read the synchronization signal for the glasses is carried over
> HDMI and then the TV has some device that communicates with the glasses to
> allow different frames to be shown to different eyes. Would this mean the
> end of the HD-PVR? Or would we just be stuck with a single set of the
> frames, essentially making the content 2D? I would assume that OTA data
> would be fine so long as the 3D data was still decoded from the MPEG2 stream
> and sent to the TV set.
> I'm also interested in what people think about 3D TV from a general viewing
> standpoint. Is it going to be as groundbreaking as HD? My thinking is that
> it could be, for some content, just as HD doesn't make a huge difference for
> many shows. Sports is where I see the largest benefit, same as HD. What do
> others think?
> --Justin Johnson
> 
Sounds like a scheme by the manufacturers to get us to:
- buy any number of more terabytes of disk to hold the bloated program files.
- buy some amazing spiffy display unit that will cost enormous amounts and not 
be compatible with anything that previously exists.
- pay much more over watching the same program in 2D.
- put up with compressed broadcasts that will make the background look like a fog.
- accept that the broadcasts will be DRM'd up the wazoo.

Cynical? Moi?

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Mike Perkins