HDTV Magazine has an article from Alfred Poor about the many Autostereoscopic 3D televisions on display at CES2011 this year. He starts off showing how he believes the “multi-view” angle televisions will fail due to the “cuddle factor”, basically explaining how the multi-view is still highly depending on specific viewing angles.
But then he gets into a fascinating new theory on why he believes 3D Televisions may be selling so poorly in the marketplace, and that there’s no one to blame but the television industry itself.
And this leads me to the larger point. I think that the television manufacturers are making a dreadful mistake by making these public “technology demonstrations.” There once was a company named Osborne that made one of the first portable computers. It announced that it was going to ship a second generation model, and everyone stopped buying the first model. The production date slipped, Kaypro and Compaq came to market with better models, and Osborne never recovered. I believe that something similar is happening with no-glasses 3DTVs. I’ve heard from lots of consumers that they do not want to wear 3D glasses of any sort. “They’re showing no-glasses 3DTVs; I’m just going to wait until they have that working.” I’ve heard this repeatedly
via HDTV Magazine – HDTV Almanac – CES 2011: Are TV Makers Doing an “Osborne”?.
