[mythtv-users] OT: 3D TV

[Andrew Close]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 January 2010 11:54:27 am David Brodbeck 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. ;)
>
> "I'm waiting for 3D TV"
>
> Ralph Kramden, ca. 1953
>
> (an excuse for not buying a TV set)
>
> For those of you too young to remember that scene, it was from "The
> Honeymooners" (Jackie Gleason), in the days of the Dumont network, though I
> think that episode was after they moved to CBS.

i thought tv was a myth in the 1950's.  ;)

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Andrew Close