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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by coldtea on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:09AM (#13471867)
>I know you've heard this argument before, but isn't that the same thing people said about color movies?

No in any large numbers. Besides, 3D cinema has been coming and going as a fad for 6 decades now.

But even if it was true that people said that about color movies, people can say the same thing about different inventions and be wrong in one case and right in another.

>A lot of people really enjoy 3D, trying to logically convince them that they actually shouldn't like it is not going to work.

Well, they are not that many to sustain 3D TVs (as TFA tells us), and they have never been that many to make it not be a fad in the cinema either.

In which case, whether some enjoy it is a moot point.

Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by baddox on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:29AM (#13472752)
> No in any large numbers.

This implies that "large numbers" of people complain about 3D. I suspect this isn't true, and that it's really a very loud very small minority.

> But even if it was true that people said that about color movies, people can say the same thing about different inventions and be wrong in one case and right in another.

Yes, but the point is that some evidence needs to be provided. Since some statements are wrong and some are right, the argument needs to be more than "it's true because I said it."

> and they have never been that many to make it not be a fad in the cinema either.

What does this mean? At what point do you concede that it's not a fad in the cinema?

Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by coldtea on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:24PM (#13474008)
>This implies that "large numbers" of people complain about 3D.

No, it just implies that they don't care about it enough to e.g. sustain a 3D TV lineup.

>Yes, but the point is that some evidence needs to be provided. Since some statements are wrong and some are right, the argument needs to be more than "it's true because I said it."

The article is one piece of evidence, isn't it?

>At what point do you concede that it's not a fad in the cinema?

At the point it surpasses regular viewing and studios don't stop making such movies 5-10 years down the road?

Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by burkaman on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:19AM (#13471981)
Well, I love 3D movies but I've never been interested in a 3D TV, I think because watching movies in a theater and at home are very different experiences. If I always watched TV sitting up straight without leaving my seat, I'd probably buy a 3D TV.

I don't really understand how enjoyment is a moot point. Enjoyment is pretty much all that matters for a consumer entertainment product.