[mythtv-users] OT: 3D TV

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:54 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> I think it was also, at least at first, an attempt to give people something
> in the theater they couldn't get at home.  It's similar to how wide-screen
> formats became popular in the 1950s, to counter the rising appeal of
> television. It only took 50 years for TV to catch up. ;)

It still hasn't completely.  Most widescreen TVs are 16:9 (1.78:1)
while many theater movies are still wider, at 2.39:1.

Eric