UK a 3D TV nation? Not half

At least try to look balanced

3D TVs are (at present, at least) high end products that have been available for less than a year.

To claim that the technology's not a success because it "only" has 2% penetration at this point might be a bit premature.

Big Sexists.

BTW those stats exclude any female subscribers

3D TV is going to be like Betamax

I really can't see this taking off. The glasses are really expensive and dorky, and you need a pair for every person watching (of course). If you've got three kids that's a lot of money on top. Especially if the kids sit on them and break a pair. Some people suffer headaches. The quality really is not that good.

Even when the price comes down to similar to a non-3D TV, I think it will get a larger take up, but still many of those people will never actually use the 3D channels. A little bit like the huge number of people that don't have an HD source, but still have an HD telly (although that WILL gradually change as cheaper BD players or streaming becomes the norm).

Perhaps some keen gamers might get into it, but that will be a pain when everyone else watching and not playing will just see a fuzzy picture, but can't be bothered to put on a pair of glasses to watch someone else play a game.

I think 3D cinema is OK, but we've all seen Avatar now and Toy Story and the novelty is kinda wearing off with that even. 3DS is interesting, and I think that WILL really take off.

Until they invent one that looks as good as HD quality and doesn't need glasses, I'll be giving it a miss. It's early days though, but I predict that by time the SnOasis opens near Ipswich 3D TV will be dead or dying.

Maybe 3D TV owners don't have Sky

I have a 3D TV but don't have Sky, got mine for 3D gaming...

The snag is you will get it anyway

(Man or Woman with so called 3D glasses)

But eventually ALL TVs will be 3D (stereoscopic) as it costs 40cents

cost of IR LED sender to sync the glasses

They will only charge extra for glasses, About €50

You won't be able to buy a TV without 3D,

People buying them now getting ripped off €500+ extra for the 40 cent gizmo + Glasses at €80 to €120.

Of course at the minute the 3D HD is two 960x1080i images side by side in a 1920x1080i frame. That's why it's inferior to HD and works with any 100Hz HDTV with a small bit of software and IR LED to sync glasses.

Uh, shouldn't this be how many people are on sky's top package?

You can't get Sky 3D without having the Sky World package with the HD bolt on, then it comes for free as far as I recall? Kinda puts a dent in the reporting, no? I for one wouldn't pay almost £70 in order to get access to a 3D channel :s

You need to wear (expensive) nerdy Glasses?

I paid $$$$ to get my vision corrected by laser.

There's no way I'm going to choose to wear specs again, certainly not for todays visual crap-fest.

70,000?

how many of those have a job?

I'll get me PPE on & get back to work.

Bundles

Don't forget, to get Sky 3D, you have to have a 3D TV, Sky HD box AND subscribe to their top tier package. I wonder how many people have a 3D TV, Sky HD box, and would be happy to register for Sky 3D on a PPV basis.

Give it time.

People will want 3d A. when it comes down in price and B, when you dont have to wear retarded glasses and C. when there newly purchased DH tv sets start to get old,

I like most people are waiting for the 3d tech to arrive and get better.

This should be common sense to anybody.

Definitely give it time...

I have the top tier package and recently enabled Sky 3D. The content they are showing is fantastic - especially for sport where the perception of depth really does make a difference. I'd say that's the main hook for most of the subscribers to Sky 3D, as there very little content beside that. You can literally see all of the content they have within a 48 hour period, and they don't even broadcast 24 huors a day.

It will pick up, though. HD took a few years to really gather momentum. As a previous poster pointed out, it takes time for people to upgrade their TVs and many people only just upgraded to 2D 1080p sets.

Price is an important factor too - we've only started seeing sub-£1000 sets in the past nine months or so, so once the price becomes consistently around and below the £1000 mark for a decent spec with bundled pairs of glasses then we'll start to see a higher take-up IF there is content available to justify the purchase.

Once the amount of content increases I can see Sky farming off the sport onto something like Sky Sports 3D and splitting Movies from entertainment, much as they did with their HD channels.

Sky are undoubtedly committed to 3D, despite far from promising numbers, much in the same way as they were with HD. It's just going to take a few years for it to build up a decent head of steam.

You're missing the point.

It's not about 3D telly, it's about 3D gaming. That's where this technology will get its route into the living room.

Frag out!

It's just another...

...pointless GIMMICK forced upon consumers in a desperate attempt to sell us more stuff.

It's bound to die away once the novelty has subsided, like it did in the 80's, unless maybe some clever engineers can make it work without the need for some stupid flimsy glasses...

FUCK 3D!

Seriously. The panel technology still sucks right now. I purchased a Panasonic plasma last year on the basis of viewing angles, colour accuracy, motion etc and people telling me that things like image retention were a thing of the past. I avoided LCD because of it's horrible blown whites/crushed blacks, 8 bit panels, clouding, poor motion, input lag, lack of IPS panels and other crap (With LED HDTV's being the most abused term to date - I'm looking at you Samsung - when it's just crappy edglit displays on most sets. You have to pay considerably more if oyu want true local dumming). But even now my Panny suffers from posterisation, phospor lag, motion judder, problems with PAL 50, floating blacks (black goes up and down spontaneously on certain sources) and yes...image retention!

3D is just another marketing scam and people only buy into it because of the rash of crappy 3D movies which are not even freely available on BluRay (Many titles being tied to exclusivity deals on branded HDTV's).

Plus you have expensive shutter glasses to content with (Great if you have kids....not), or polarised glasses which cut down on the amount of resolution of the HDTV and cause lowered brightness levels or you having to pump the brightness up each time you want to watch a 3D source.

Obvious other issues are things like crosstalk.

What we NEED is better panel technology. OLED, QLED, FED or SED (whichever comes first and is most affordable).

3D can go to hell.

I will buy a 3D telly the day I hear......

......."Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi" and can see Princess Leia from all angles. Until then, don't call me before I call you.