Hmmm Lets see

1. I will never wear glasses to watch TV

2. It is impossible to have the tech for non glasses 3d applied to multiple viewers in the same room.

Therefore I will never be able to watch 3d TV with another human being.

Why do companies act like such total tools...........3d TV is a non starter.

i think some ppl here lack imagination and if the companies that create new technologies were that short sighted we wouldnt have progressed half of what we have in terms of technology and entertainment.

sony has always been one of those companies that likes to push the envelope in terms of inovation, it's not the only company that does that thankfully. even though i wont get me a 3d tv in next 3/5 years i like to see things progress towards that path.

i cant really imagine what it will be like but i dont think, when the time comes, needing to put on a simple pair of glasses to experience something like 3d gaming will stop me.

what if 1M people want to watch Avatar in 3D at home?

Then they will have to wear glasses. Or take turns watching the movie...

A few points:

1- These TVs and glasses will probably not be cheap, especially if you need 2-4 glasses for movies or multiplayer games.
2- The 3D TVs don't have as big an appeal as HDTVs. After all they're just HDTVs with 3D, while HDTVs were adopted largely due to being big and flat in addition to the better image quality.
3- You need to buy a special Blu-Ray player to watch movies in 3D (but they may update the PS3 to support it).

I think 3D TVs will take a LONG time to be adopted by the market. Especially with the bad economy. There's even the possibility that most people do not want to wear glasses for the benefit of 3D.

Sony's LCD market share has been falling sharply, and I don't think 3D is what will bring Sony back on top (especially since other companies are adopting it faster or at the same pace as Sony), even though Sony is betting heavily on it as a turnaround strategy.

Glasses will be expensive at first if you want good ones, but over time, as it becomes more and more mainstream, the cost will get lower.

As far as gaming goes, most people play games in solo, so there's nothing wrong there. It won't be expensive for gaming (you only need one pair of glasses).

Hollywood has been interested in this tech for quite some time and the next step is to take the tech in consumers' homes. I don't see how there's anything wrong with that. It's the logical step.

Like someone else said, At first we had 24" or smaller TV sets. We can now have 100" + screens in our living room. Audio was mono, then stereo, then surround... Now you can have better sound at home than in most theaters with 7.1 or more channels with HD sound. We've had 3D movies for quite some time now, and the tech has evolved greatly over the years. We'll get to have it all in the comfort of our living room. It's the logical step.

Just like not everyone will want or care to have a HD projector with a 100" + screen and a sound system with incredible sound fidelity in their living room, many people still want that kind of thing. You may not be one of them, but to dismiss the tech as an automatic failure is rather short-sighted. ¬_¬

As expensive and uninterested with 3D technology, its nice to see Sony always trying new things. Even though it can backfire and fail causing loss of millions of dollars, respect for trying. And i say that to all companies that do that.

seriously its a big step, Hollywood and the theaters are pushing 3d like crazy, and for a console to be able to put everything in 3d is inovation in its finest.

remember video games are a luxury

Sony does, others will follow

I also use 3D on my old CRT TV. But theres a big difference in a 2D media (all the on you mentioned) process to display in 3D. Than an original 3D media. One add depth to your screen while the other make things pop off the screen, adding depth as the same time, which is really nice. When you said in your first post that 3D is not cool, I guess you were talking about 2D media convert into 3D (by your nvidia program). Any time I show 3D imax movies to friends on the old CRT eveyrone is amaze, only problem is the flickers. What Sony is doing will be flicker free, so it will be simply awesome. Did you play a game like Avatar? one of the very few that is program in 3D. I did not, but I guess it would be much better than your experiences from 2D games process into 3D.

Also theres is no reason for the TVs to cost more than 2000$ unless you want a really big one. The googles use for my CRT processing unit are about 15$ each. It should not be as expensive as some of the comments.