Comments on: Forget the glasses--3D monitors ready now

Expect to see more opportunities for three-dimensional viewing show up on TVs, cell phones and beyond.

[Dale Sundstrom]

Viewing from 196 feet away?

The second photo for this story has a caption that says: "The 3D effect of the 20-inch screen can be viewed about 60 meters away," which is about 196 feet. Surely they meant 60 centimeters (about 2 feet).

[paulsecic]

HDTV

hasn't gone mainstream yet,

[Dale Sundstrom]

Viewing from 196 feet away?

The second photo for this story has a caption that says: "The 3D effect of the 20-inch screen can be viewed about 60 meters away," which is about 196 feet. Surely they meant 60 centimeters (about 2 feet).

[paulsecic]

HDTV

hasn't gone mainstream yet,

[Joe Blow]

Talk About A "Solution" Looking for a Problem ...

it's amazing that Phillips has any money lying around to toss at this kind of project, considering the cuts they've had to make over the last few years. If manufacturers thought that HDTV was a hard sell, just wait until they try hawking this stuff - as if retailers have any room for yet-another product category (although, I suppose room is opening up as the picture-tube based TVs edge toward oblivion - you really have to look for them down a side aisle in Bust Buy and Circuitous S#ity).

If the primary means of accomplishing what they're doing is optical channeling, then what's next, the modern-day equivalent of "color TV" plastic overlays that were sold for 1950s/1960s black-and-white TVs (they had blue, flesh-tone, and brown bands of color, from the top to the bottom of the screen)?

This too, like the dodo, shall become extinct, yet another dead end in marketeers' plans. At least they realize that it's yet-another chicken-and-egg situation, where it's useless without the content, and vice versa. Considering the dearth of quality content in 2-D, I can only imagine what ubiquitous home shopping networks, soap operas, and "reality" shows (oh, the latter two are redundant) will look like in 3-D (shudder).

Maybe I'll start a research lab for development of teletransportation devices that don't quite work, either. At least those would have a useful purpose, if and when they ever did become operational, much less economically feasible (ala the 3-D "fax" machine that would be in every 7-11 type of store in "Neuromancer").

All the Best,
Joe Blow

[fakespam]

About Philips

Philips hold the patents on video games, interactivity, compact
optical technology (standard and recordable), HDTV, and MPEG/
JPEG. Most of these were aquired when Philips bought Magnavox
and started doing manufacturing for Memerox.

So even if money runs out from sales, they have all of these patents
that just have the money keep pouring in.

Programmer #A-5 of www.totallyparanoia.com

[Joe Blow]

Talk About A "Solution" Looking for a Problem ...

it's amazing that Phillips has any money lying around to toss at this kind of project, considering the cuts they've had to make over the last few years. If manufacturers thought that HDTV was a hard sell, just wait until they try hawking this stuff - as if retailers have any room for yet-another product category (although, I suppose room is opening up as the picture-tube based TVs edge toward oblivion - you really have to look for them down a side aisle in Bust Buy and Circuitous S#ity).

If the primary means of accomplishing what they're doing is optical channeling, then what's next, the modern-day equivalent of "color TV" plastic overlays that were sold for 1950s/1960s black-and-white TVs (they had blue, flesh-tone, and brown bands of color, from the top to the bottom of the screen)?

This too, like the dodo, shall become extinct, yet another dead end in marketeers' plans. At least they realize that it's yet-another chicken-and-egg situation, where it's useless without the content, and vice versa. Considering the dearth of quality content in 2-D, I can only imagine what ubiquitous home shopping networks, soap operas, and "reality" shows (oh, the latter two are redundant) will look like in 3-D (shudder).

Maybe I'll start a research lab for development of teletransportation devices that don't quite work, either. At least those would have a useful purpose, if and when they ever did become operational, much less economically feasible (ala the 3-D "fax" machine that would be in every 7-11 type of store in "Neuromancer").

All the Best,
Joe Blow

[fakespam]

About Philips

Philips hold the patents on video games, interactivity, compact
optical technology (standard and recordable), HDTV, and MPEG/
JPEG. Most of these were aquired when Philips bought Magnavox
and started doing manufacturing for Memerox.

So even if money runs out from sales, they have all of these patents
that just have the money keep pouring in.

Programmer #A-5 of www.totallyparanoia.com

[fakespam]

Old News

In 1991, I saw the Air Force's prototype monitors for 3D. In
color, cheap to make. The experiment it was using had the skies
over the Las Vegas area appear in 3D. It was cool, but after a
while, because of the spinning tubes, I would get a headache.

Also in 1991, over at Daewoo in South Korea, I viewed
holographic TV, which would also be photographed with still or
video cameras, and 3D TV. The lady giving the tour said that
using the holographs to do 3D would be too expensive, hence,
the tech fell by the wayside. Now, I consider it ironic that after
Daewoo has collapsed that 3D TV is the style they suggested
had been reported.

3D TV will take off, though. Some elements would incorporated
into TVs, but not the way it is described here. It might show up
in slot machines, but again, not the way it is described here. I
know, though, that it won't go the way of a Viewfinder or a
Virtual Boy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_boy ), but
might use multi-planed glass and layers via plasma, laser, LCD,
or all three, in a way we have to comprehend.

Programmer #A-5 of www.totallyparanoia.com

[FisherKingKQJ]

too complicated

3D can be done through sheer frames per second.
120 fps has long been available through surveillance systems and all the co's mentioned are working on increased fps, anyway.

[fakespam]

Old News

In 1991, I saw the Air Force's prototype monitors for 3D. In
color, cheap to make. The experiment it was using had the skies
over the Las Vegas area appear in 3D. It was cool, but after a
while, because of the spinning tubes, I would get a headache.

Also in 1991, over at Daewoo in South Korea, I viewed
holographic TV, which would also be photographed with still or
video cameras, and 3D TV. The lady giving the tour said that
using the holographs to do 3D would be too expensive, hence,
the tech fell by the wayside. Now, I consider it ironic that after
Daewoo has collapsed that 3D TV is the style they suggested
had been reported.

3D TV will take off, though. Some elements would incorporated
into TVs, but not the way it is described here. It might show up
in slot machines, but again, not the way it is described here. I
know, though, that it won't go the way of a Viewfinder or a
Virtual Boy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_boy ), but
might use multi-planed glass and layers via plasma, laser, LCD,
or all three, in a way we have to comprehend.

Programmer #A-5 of www.totallyparanoia.com

[FisherKingKQJ]

too complicated

3D can be done through sheer frames per second.
120 fps has long been available through surveillance systems and all the co's mentioned are working on increased fps, anyway.