Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets

Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by kurthr on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:22AM (#13472659)

You know... if you take 2 of those 3D glasses (you criminal!) and swap out the left lens for the right lens between them, you can make 2D glasses. That way when you go to the movies, you and a friend can share different views during the film... one with the right view and one the left. If you have friends with differing viewpoints, it might help... as long as they don't like 3D either.

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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by chx on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:45AM (#13472953)

Or if you don't want to fiddle with very fragile things just buy 2D glasses, I won't link because I do not want to spam but they exist and they do the job.

As an aside, this reminds of the prime example of "people are so stupid you can't even imagine": I checked some epilepsy forum when Avatar came out because I suspected it's dangerous and yes, people said it is not advisable and some got auras and some even seizures from the movie so I decided 3D movies are not for me. Not everyone though -- there was someone who posted "yeah, I saw the warnings here and went to see Avatar 3D and got a seizure" and I am like "you can't be real".

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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by felipemnoa on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:12PM (#13473897)

The real question here is what is so special about the visual input that it causes a seizure?

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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by chx on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:48PM (#13474252)

Well, many people get headaches. It's not a stretch to say whatever causes a headache in a sensitive person might cause worse.

Edit: to whoever downvotes this, I had seizures when I was 20 years old. Despite numerous examinations including sleep deprived EKG, CT, MRI they never found out what causes them. So if you are downvoting this because I sound like we do not know what causes seizures then you are either ignorant (because we indeed do not know and I am the damned walking example) or have knowledge I really badly need. If the latter then please share links to new neuro research which will help me and my neurologist to decide whether I need to stay on medication or not. I would be glad to stop after two decades.

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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by khedoros1 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:59PM (#13475382)

Here's my speculation on why you got downvotes, based on how I would criticize your post. You're missing a third possibility: That it is a stretch to say that the "worse [than headaches]" could be seizures. It's a somewhat extraordinary claim, and you provided 2nd-hand, circumstantial anecdotes in support of it.

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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by sebular on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:11PM (#13473239)

This works, but by blocking half the light, wouldn't you get a pretty dim picture?

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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by thefalcon on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:54PM (#13473695)

As is true of all 3D movies, which is another ding agaist them.

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Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets by rz2k on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:15PM (#13473288)

It's just a different half of the photons, and the photons available to each of your light collectors are separate streams anyway.

Each of your eyes gets a half of the light available to them both before and after.

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