Yeah, my mother saved green stamps too. I recall going with her to the green stamp store ( S&H ) as I recall when I was about 8 years old and they told her the store was closing, She went home gathered up all her books of stamps and got something but I don't recall what it was. That was in the 50's.
Televisionantique and Vurb too... Both of you are now trying desperately to come up with different arguments. Let's get the story straight here. I was discussing 3D stereoscopic video. I never said it would be mainstream, rather I said it would be a gimmick form of entertainment that would become a special part of our home entertainment. The fact that there are some cell phones that use it, IMO, is a fluke test experiment. I also said I see it included in home entertainment the same as DD5.1 sound systems and people will not require that everywhere either. Additionally, I never said the glasses no glasses is something that will stick. today the best 3D stereoscopic requires glasses for a large screen but as technology advances, I suspect we will have in the near future, large screen panel TV's that permit 3D w/o glasses. The industry has made tremendous advances toward this direction in just two years. I recall the first glasses free experiment at CES and I thought it looked horrible. One year later I'm buying a glasses free screen that looks amazing on my camcorder. I now have 3 TV's in the house. The one in my edit studio is 3D passive Vizio. The Home theater is an active glasses 3D projector ( Sony) and the Kitchen is a simple 2D LCD. When that ugly glasses free 3D TV was introduced the experts said that the first good 3D glasses free panel would be 5-10 years away. They would have laughed at me if I told them I would be buying a glasses free 3D screen in a $250 3D camcorder a year later but that is now historical fact. Your 25 year schedule is so stupidly ignorant of technical progress it is pathetic, not even funny.
There is a natural progress we go through and on a similar scale to HDTV, we're still in 1999-2000 similarities. But the second year has us moving forward much faster. Consumer 3D camcorders are becoming more common. Now Panasonic just introduced theirs. Another company just released their consumer video editing software for $99 that specializes in 3D video editing features. Every other week I have a new release 3D major movie arriving. Got Lion King in 3D last week, tomorrow it's Green Lantern, in two weeks Captain America, then Pirates of the Caribbean. There seems to be no shortage of 3D content in the second year And personally, I now shoot everything in 3D because I can see it either way leaving the choice later whether to watch in 2D or 3D.
Now I will make a bold prediction ( it's similar to the prediction I made about you Vurbano, several years ago now regarding BluRay) I will bet that within 2 years after the glasses free 3D sets are on the market for average prices you will be getting one. The way I see this argument is a bit different, It's not whether 3D is dead but whether those who think 3D is dead are really dead themselves.
