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The latest entry in our “How Dumb is That?” Department is 3DTV.

Did you know that you can, right now, go to Amazon.com and buy a 3DTV?  This Samsung model, a 55-inch LED HDTV, sells for about $2900.  However, to watch anything in 3D, you’ll need:

• Active 3D glasses. They’re expensive, starting at about $150.  They aren’t compatible with other makes of 3DTVs. And if one person is watching something in 3D, everyone else has to wear them too — there’s no way to watch 2D and 3D at the same time. Oh, they’re also not available yet.
• Something to watch.  There’s no 3D programming available on any of the cable or satellite systems yet.  Comcast expects to have some on-demand content available later this year, but no 3D channels are expected to be available.  DirecTV is planning a total of three 3DTV channels this year: an on-demand channel, a premium channel, and a free channel.  Whether they’ll have enough content for them is another question.  Some movies will be coming out on BluRay 3D this year; that means you’ll have to add either a 3D BluRay player, or a Sony Playstation 3 to your budget.

In short, you now have an opportunity to spend a lot of money on something you’ll barely be able to use.

<sigh>

Allen  Apr 2 Uncategorized