The venerable and august Wall Street Journal is reporting that vendors in America are massively discounting 3D TVs.
Heck, I wouldn’t buy a 3D TV if you paid me to. Aside from the anti-social aspect, the 3D specs just get in the way of more terrestrial pursuits.
Plus there’s little enough to watch on the goggle box anyway, without being faced with the disorientation involved in watching Only Fools and Horses and One Foot in the Grave and seeing not only the wrinkles you see on HD TVs but watching every blackhead as if it were the face of the Moon.
In reality, you and I both know that 3D TV is a lame attempt by the flat glass vendors to sell excess stock – or inventory as they call it – to “consumers”, as everyone seems to call people these days.
How many remote control sticks have you got in your house? When you’re preparing to switch channels, are you sure that with your 3D spex on, you won’t pick up the wrong one and destroy the chain of SCART connected devices that sit atop of each other and be unable to remember the sequence that lets you watch innumerable ancient episodes of Have I Got News for You or the truly lamentable QI with vacuous Stephen “twitter” Fry?
It was the truly astonishing Genevieve Bell from mega corporation Intel who earlier this year pointed out that glasses for 3D TVs get lost easily and worse than that you can’t watch basketball without getting dizzy. Plus soccer and golf aren’t very easy to watch on 3D TV either.
This is all about content. But with so many contentless repeats showing on so many innumerable channels can we really expect people to create interesting content which is also 3D?
I have a personal confession to make here. In 1955, when I wasn’t even a young shaver because I was five, my mum and dad took me to see a 3D Western where you got delivered those red and green paper and celluloid spectacles. When the people in the film started throwing what appeared to be knives at the audience, I screamed and ducked underneath the seat. This was not castration anxiety – which of course I do suffer from – but absolute terror.
In 1974, when I was a shaver although my whiskers hadn’t yet turned grey, I went to see Andy Warhol’s Flesh for Frankenstein. Let me assure you that the addition of 3D to a Warhol film didn’t make it any more tolerable. It was very boring, and very boring in 3D too. Here’s a trailer for the flick. Don’t bother reaching for your 3D specs, TechEye doesn’t support 3D yet.
So all in all, fat panel vendors, go peddle your goods somewhere else. The vast majority of people are not going to lash out on 3D TVs so we can watch drivel in three dimensions. Two dimensions of drivel are quite enough, thank you very much.
Personally, I think what's currently happening is similar to HDReady 720, an unwanted half-step imposed by the manufacturers out to make a fast buck, supported by content providers with similar motivation by requiring a widespread platform.
3D will come, when a technology variant matures, and permits the viewer to spend an enjoyable evening in front of their boob tube. And of course, sufficient quality content to make it worthwhile.
The human being is the summit of Creation, through Evolution, and as such, there is no need to improve on this model . In fact, any attempt of changing the specification of the human model will damage it. Any attempt other than transcending to Divinity via the Spiritual dimension for without attaining the spiritual, the human being, although he is perfect for the task at hand, has yet to become complete, having the legacies of his animal past still lingering within. The perfection of the human model applies to him being potentialised to attain his spiritual dimension. To re-specify this model as in going deeper into his past or his future, is to damage him - without a single exception, 3D or no 3D, the frivolous nonsense constructed to afford destruction, such is the indifference of The Bookie, excused as being neutral.
The meek shalt not inherit the Earth but rather it is because of the meek that the mighty-scholarly exists and is trying to inherit the Earth. Love is not meek for She is the real, one and only, Power in existence except She has zero concept of Power - because She is the only Power. When absoluteness is lacking, then Humility exists to temporarily temper the mighty-scholarly in order that balance be maintained to afford absoluteness passage. The moment will arrive when true Might-Scholarship will perfrom His duty and the meek of heart will not be able to bear what is going on. Only those who have attained absoluteness will be able to bear that passing if only because it is through them that the passage is afforded. Christmas is arriving but in reality, Christmas is all year round, being “24/7”. All know that but few realises so other than going for another round of plunder to afford their abandonments, tarted/perfumed as “Saving”, “Righting” and “Entertaining”, the favourite hymn of The Bookie drummed into the minds of his Genetics. Christmas is [about] Forgiveness & Resurrection for you cannot “resurrect” without having forgiven, firstly to oneself and then to others.
Only an infant/innocence can forgive because he has yet to have thoughts of the past or of the future, being mostly within the present inspite of the attempts at “developing” him by his parents/guardians through imaginations like “Father Christmas” and wastage, oka “Over”. The perfection of the human being lies in him being completely self-sustaining within the spiritual department, being innately moral [and not moralistic] and any attempt at changing this innateness merely developes an ambitious, callous, unconscienable partial animal who uses his cunning for excusing his other behaviours. Like “3D” for Christmas for those infants who are merely thinking animals, the ones who are the most dangerous and unpredictable species on Earth, the ones who can justify anything.
True shamans don't preach the world, Bookie, the world peaches true shamans.
oka introspective crap/shite/bullshit oka some fink.
oka nobody as nobody was ever interested when you were masquerading as a bot oka nobody is buying that jerky oka anything you say in your senseless diatribes.
oka you want to teach on the streets? no you are a coward oka some fink who likes the smell of his stink.
oka you're fooling yourself.
I'm sure it will do wonders for your anxiety. Personally haven't seen it yet, but I suspect you'll enjoy it more than 3D Frank.
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