| irstupid said: as you said less than 10% is in 3D, and please i would love to see a list of what is in 3D. so now why am i buying a 3D tv to watch tv in 2D, only so many times you can watch Avatar. Oh and I have 6 people in my family. that is $900 for us to watch tv in 3D. And your saying what a 3DTV will go down in price say $1000, and be within a couple hudnred of 2DTV. Wouldn't those 2Dtv's also go down in price. Quit comparuing the 3DTV price reduction with the current 2DTV price. And again your doing the typical search around and find these amazing deals, hell lets bring in the whole I got this tv from my uncles nephew for a deal for shits. We are talking about MASS MARKET HERE. Most of all things are bought for the price sticker in the store. Look at the average price of the 3DTV's being sold, not one example on sale somewhere for one time. we are not trying to convince each other here to buy a 3DTV, we are discussing what we think will happen to the 3DTV industry in the future. Whether i personally can get some deal on a TV doesn't mean jack shit to the overal market penetration of 3DTV's.
and again adding what's my incentive to buy a 3DTV? We have had a really nice HDTV for a long time and there was a couple years there were there was what like 4-5 channels in HD all else in SD. Only real reason to have an HDTV was mauinly just its smaller size to hang on wall. So why am I gouing to buy a 3DTV if only a couple channels in 3D or to just watch movies, and there are only a couple good even in 3D, most is tacked on shit. also laughiung one more time for those bringing up theatres, yea an extra $2 a ticket compared to a new tv and $150 glasses for each person. |
I'm not making a list of currently available 3D content. There will be 3D movies on Blu-Ray and there are a bunch of PS3 games. Beyond that, not a whole lot. More content to come. Every movie didn't come out in HD format overnight either.
A likely scenario is that eventually the only non 3D ready displays will be budget brand, small format and budget model HDTVs. If that's all that people are in the market for, then paying $150 for a pair of shutter glasses is not money well spent (they'll be under $100 within 2 years, but that's still far from cheap).
The incentive to buy a 3D ready HDTV is for those who are currently in the market to buy a large format premium HDTV, not those who recently bought one and are now chafing that something newer is now available, or those who are looking for a budget HDTV at the lowest cost. HDTVs are priced according to feature sets and 3D ready is simply one of those features that is rapidly dropping in price as more content that takes advantage of the feature becomes available.
Mass market adopts when the amount of available content meets a certain mass market friendly price, which is currently where 3D is heading and at a pretty rapid rate.
