There is much to what you say, but there is something different about stereoscopic 3D from those others: Percival's zone of comfort, the range of acceptable deviation between the accommodation depth (what the eyes focus on) and the vergence depth (what the eyes point to).
Eyes always focus on the screen. In a cinema auditorium, the screen is sufficiently far from even the front row that the zone of comfort becomes an issue only if something comes so close as to bite the viewer's nose; imagery with vergence depth out to infinity is within the zone. In TV viewing, screen distances are often so close that stereoscopic imagery can go beyond the zone of comfort even for distant objects (such as a football field's goal). There are ways around this, but they introduce other distortions.
So, yes, 3D technology is immature, but it might have to go beyond stereoscopy to work well for TV.
In the other direction, Cliff, why restrict yourself to 1950? The first stereoscopic 3D television transmission was in 1928.
TTFN, Mark On 1/9/2013 5:32 AM, Takashi Tome wrote:
Like the DTV/HDTV history. You know, the old ATV, ETV, EDTV, and many other incarnations before the ATSC. Sounds that 3D is not good enough yet. Put in other words, the technology is not mature. That doesn't mean that consumers are not interested.Best Regards Takashi Tome 2013/1/9 Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>> What again??? How many times now since 1950??? Cliff who was there and saw most of them. On 1/8/2013 10:50 PM, Monty Solomon wrote: It's official: 3D is dead The tech industry's annual hot air balloon show is gone, and the world's a better place for it By Vlad Savov January 8, 2013 The Verge There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade. You might not realize it immediately, for it's marked by the absence rather than the arrival of a new technology, but it's there and we're all sensing it on a deep, subconscious level. And it feels good. 3D is gone. ... http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852452/death-of-3d ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. -- Takashi Tome DGI - Diretoria de Gestão da Inovação CPqD www.cpqd.com.br <http://www.cpqd.com.br/> takashi@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:takashi@xxxxxxxxxxx> (19) 3705-7217
