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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
What is the title of this thread again?
High Definition TV Owners Ready For 3-D TV
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Yes, but my point was obviously they surveyed a very small segment of the HDTV market if the expressed preferred method of getting 3D was Blu-Ray. If you count every PS3 as a Blu-Ray player (and we all know only a fraction of PS3's are being used for BD movies on a regular basis based on disc sales), then there are around 8.5 Million BD players in use.
A lot of people, including NPD, say there are 40 Million US households with HDTV's. How could BD be the preferred method of 3D for HDTV owners when nearly 5 times as many HDTV owners don't have BD as compared to those who do?
I still see it as a gimmick and most consumers won't be bothered to wear glasses with cables hooked to a special 3DHDTV or a special 3DBD player, especially those who already wear glasses. Few movies were filmed in 3D, most 3D films were filmed in anaglyph 3D and I doubt the approach of digitally synthesizing a 3D image from a 2D film master will be anywhere near as successful as actual 3D filming.