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Survey: Most Japanese consumers not sold on 3D |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: 3D, Japan, Sony, survey
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Uh-oh. It looks like Sony may be having a little problem promoting 3D gaming on the home front. A Japanese survey has revealed that most consumers don't intend to buy a 3D TV.
Of the 8,957 people who responded to the survey, 67.4 percent said that they have no intention of purchasing a 3D TV. Nearly 70 percent cited the glasses as a major issue, 57 percent said it's just too expensive, and almost 40 percent said the lack of content affected their decision.
Sony has already started releasing 3D PS3 games in the region. Some 3D programs are also available through Japanese cable operator J:Com. Yep, it's not a lot, but as the content increases perhaps people would change their mind.
Via [Reuters]
Image: [SleekFly]
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people were willing to change to hdtv because it was a significant advancment and greater quality than the very very old crt's. however these tvs have only been out a while and sony expect us to just drop our investments for a new tv that many people dont even need anyway.
I am not to sure whether sony uses oled in these new models but if they dont then there is definately no point in buying since we all know that will be sony's sucker punch. 3dtvs now oleds in 5 years and another 2000 in their pocket.
and since sony lie about nearly everything I wouldnt put it past them to pull that sucker punch.
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The price: I just bought an hdtv a few years ago and I'm pretty happy with it. I don't want to buy a new tv just yet.
The glasses: I'm not opposed to wearing glasses to see 3d, but I don't like the idea of having to shell out $100 per pair. I would be afraid to let anybody touch my 3d glasses. I'm a little fuzzy on exactly how the technology works, but I don't understand why they haven't built a dlp tv that works with polarized lenses.
The tech: I've enjoyed the 3d movies I've seen in the theatre, but there were some quibbles: fast movements tended to look really blurry, kinda' like old led's with the crappy refresh rates. And that's the super-expensive theatre display; I haven't actually checked out the tv's yet. Plus I'm hearing that there's some flicker going on, and the images are darker than when watching standard tv.
The support: particularly with the ps3, there is only support for the newer tv's. All the tv's that have been sold as "3d-ready" over the past few years use a different tech (checkerboard) which the ps3 doesn't support. That means buying a converter which Mitsubishi makes, but they've specifically rigged it to only work on mitsubishi tv's. And some of those tvs are already near impossible to find glasses for.
That said, I LOVE 3d and I've been eagerly waiting for the day when we would get the technology to have 3d tv's. I'm just somewhat disappointed in that technology--I think I'll give it about five years or so to calm down, standardize, come down in price, and improve in tech.
I am really looking forward to the 3ds, though. I think it's a brilliant move on Nintendo's part to make a glasses-less 3d display on a portable (and no, that tech wouldn't work for tv's: it relies on the player viewing the screen from directly in front of the screen). If Sony's got half a brain (they don't), they'll work a 3d screen into the psp2.
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Now, lcd's already use polarized filters, so couldn't the same thing be done with an lcd tv? Double the horizontal resolution, but instead of making each set of pixels only viewable from a particular angle, just polarize them perpendicularly to each other so that each set of pixels can only go through one of the polarized lenses. If anybody knows enough about lcd tech, I would love to hear why this would/wouldn't work.
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There's no problem with the technology (my $3,000 gaming PC has had it for years) just cry-babies that can't afford it.
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I hate having to wear 2 sets of glasses for 5 minuets in a theme park, let alone several hours playing games or watching something.
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first of all i dont wear prescription glasses
thing is, youll get used to them very quickly and wont realise theyre on
its a culture change thats all
to me the biggest problem with 3d is ghosting (i thought they sorted this out, obviously not) and the focusing
We should beable to choose what to focus on, particularly in games
the content will come, thats no excuse
and the price will drop, quite quickly (look how fast hd came down)
for me its the tech
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the marketing is terrible
and think about nintendo 3ds glassless wait soon there will be 3d tv without the need to use glasses...technology will pick up and the money i would spend on a 3d tv today i can save for a better product later on...
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Japaneseconsumers not sold on 3D. Period.3D is most likely never going to take off at home (and not passed the Avatar-like movies in the theater), I wish the big studios would realize that.
Nobody really cares about 3D passed the "cool" factor of the first few minutes, and nobody wants to wear stupid plastic glasses.
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It's not just cool, it actually makes you feel like you're there (at least in gaming with the setting up high). And that was while wearing those freaking-horrible anaglyph glasses.
It will take off someday. I'm not sure if the glasses this time will get it to go (I don't really like them either), but maybe Nintendo's approach will get picked up, modified, and cheapened for the living room. Either way, 3D WILL take off at home.
Maybe just not right now.
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Im buying into 3D. Your comment is now wrong.
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Burn the eyes?
No way thank you!
67.4 percent of the people deserved a price because in the future the world will be blind forever and never see the colurs again.
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NO 3D Bullshit!
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Agree with you.
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It´s true in the future will bee blinded!
Any you know that bastards!
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Only thing that would be amazing is GT5 in 3D, but that's it. So yeah it makes sense why people aren't wanting 3D.
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I JUST recently got a new HD TV for Christmas (ok so 6 months is not 'recently')
But anyway, point is the TV is still new
There is no way in hell I am buying a new TV, ESPECIALLY one that costs several times the amount I can afford
Maybe in 5 years when the prices die down...but right now?
No way.
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i have 2 lcd tv´s at home,i will waite for 3 years for the first 3d tv without glasses
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