Saturday, May 8, 2010

3D TV's Hype or a Good Investment

All the trade magazines, blogs and even CES were spouting off about the next big thing, 3D televisions. However, with known issues such as HDMI bandwidth, non standardized glasses, and switching problems with existing A/V receivers, you would think that many in this space would be advocating a wait and see approach. Unfortunately, they are not!

Here at Elite Systems Solutions, we are advising our clients to wait. While we do believe that 3D is interesting and has some legs, until we can drop the glasses, understand and integrate with existing A/V equipment and have a good content base, these are just expensive pieces of electronics. How many times can you watch Avator before you are burned out? Yes, all the studios are bringing additional releases out in 3D, but unit we have a good inventory of content we will continue to advise a wait and see approach. Even with DirectTV planning three (3) channels of 3D viewing, it is not there yet. Plus, you will need to not only purchase a 3D television, but at this time, additional glasses for each member to watch. Plus, these glasses are not universal, so you can't go next door and watch an event or movie with the neighbors unless their system is the same as yours, so additional expense into spare glasses.

We believe that in the near future manufacturers will develop true 3D screens that will allow the experience without the glasses. Yes, we are a few years away, but do you really ant to be the first adopters with the out of date system?

Well, what do you think? Is all the hype for real? Have you experienced the 3D in your home, neighbors? We could be wrong, be I think I will take a more wait and see approach.

JUst my 2 cents.

Ric
"bringing technology home"