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3D isn't really that much extra money though. If you've got a quality panel, you already have a high refresh rate. So all you need to add 3D, beyond a bit of

3D isn't really that much extra money though. If you've got a quality panel, you already have a high refresh rate. So all you need to add 3D, beyond a bit of software, is polarization or active glasses. It adds so little to the cost that it doesn't make much sense for manufacturers not to include it on high end TVs. Saying that 3D is "doomed" because one manufacturer is not bringing out new 3D models this year is, IMO, ridiculous. Eventually of course it will get much better, with no glasses, head tracking setups that are already in development. So 3D as we know it now of course won't last forever. But it's not like it's going away. Look at the percentage of movies released in 3D today compared to 5 years ago.

pmontra 10y ago
Do you have to stay in front of the tv or can you move around the room and do whatever you have to do? I almost never stay put in front of the tv, even when I watch movies. It's the advantage of being at home. I think 3D is really dying. Maybe VR headsets will revive it, but without TV screens. Or in a shorter time the head tracking technology you're writing about. But the problem is that having to stay in front of a screen in a fixed location of the house to watch something is becoming an alien concept, the same thing that happened to having to be there at exactly that hour to watch a show.