11-12-16, 02:07 PM
(11-12-16, 12:13 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: About 5 years ago I brought a 55in smart tv for Sharp Halls entertaining parlour, cost over a grand at the time. It is 3d and at the time that was (being pushed as ) the way forward, even BBC were experimenting on broadcasting some shows and events in 3d, blurays also being released in 3d. I actually didn't buy the tv because it had 3d, I didnt even want 3d but at the time you couldn't buy a 55incher without it.
So I was in currys the other day killing some time whilst Mrs Sharp was buying some Christmas crap in M&S and mooched around the tvs, assistant came and I pretended to be looking at buying a tv 55 or more with 3d and he starts rubbing his chin / thinking, turns out that only a small select few now are including 3d. BBC have also given up on 3d.
So the point to my story is that I feel perhaps 4k could be the next 3d, which was pushed just as a selling point to - well, sell tvs.
To be fair 4k is an evolution of HD so in theory it will just be replaced with the next sharper image (8k, or super 4k or some other bollocks) where as 3d was just a fad. It was clever but i never really found it comfortable on my eyes. Also most people I know with them just moan because they had to wear glasses all the time.