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thats a good question. I am not sure if will or not, after seeing Avatar in 3d i was very impress to see it. But i'm not sure if it will be worth the complete uprgade cost to get my ht gear hd3d ready.]]>Dec 23rd 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/17/blu-ray-3d-specifications-finalized-your-ps3-is-ready/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/video-sony-confirms-its-bringing-home-3d-starting-in-2010/]]>Dec 23rd 2009 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI_1.4#Version_1.4

I highly doubt the PS3 will support anything in 1.4 anyways. 3D video might be possible with a firmware update, but why would Sony do that when they could sell you a new 3D player for $400? Audio return won't be useful, higher resolution won't be useful, and the HDMI ethernet apparently requires a 1.4 cable (so I am assuming it has extra pins, which the PS3 obviously won't support).

I still have yet to see any 3D anything and honestly I don't see them taking off at home. The other features of 1.4 sound nice though, but I am still waiting on TV's to start supporting 4k (what they do with the integrated ethernet could be interesting, hopefully manufacturers setup some API's for interaction between all of the otherwise dumb systems).]]>Dec 23rd 2009 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
Also, I wouldn't exactly look at your average football game attendee for technical or market acumen.]]>Dec 23rd 2009 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
that's because you haven't seen Avatar yet ]]>Dec 23rd 2009 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
For movies it's nothing more than a gimmick but for gaming I think it could be good.]]>Dec 23rd 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
It's sad to see so much anti-3D rant in the posts... I've seen U2 concert in 3D (in IMAX), I've seen Christmas Carol in 3D, and I think they are incredible. I think it is great that movie studios started picking up on 3D and that we are slowly moving towards 3D without glasses. I also think 3D has a big potential to benefit the storyline, and that cinematographers will eventually learn the art of 3D (so it will not be just a bunch of special effects).

The fact that an appetite for profits drives movie studios and TV manufacturers to produce 3D doesn't matter. We will still get a chance to discover a new dimension in cinematography (which, unfortunately, remains flat since the beginning).

]]>Dec 24th 2009 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
"I also think 3D has a big potential to benefit the storyline"

Can you back that up with an example?]]>Dec 24th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/And if you happen to not have it then you are pretty shortsighted (get it?) yourself to then act like something's wrong with people's eyes.

It's even possible to argue that you must have dull senses to not notice something is wrong when you are not affected by those 3D systems, like for instance you should have the tendency to judge distance and automatically focus your eyes, now when you watch 3D that is not necessary since the image is in fact flat on a screen, so when your eyes try to act like it's objects in 3D space and at the same time then readjust because it's in reality a flat screen you should end up with a headache.
And maybe if you simultaneously used steroids you might get weirdly big focusing muscles round the lenses, freakish concept.
]]>Dec 24th 2009 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
Pay the extra 5 cents for ink or the pixel's bandwidth and use some punctuation. My eyes and ears are bleeding from your long-ass sentences.]]>Dec 23rd 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Or is it the linefeeds and paragraphs you miss when you say punctuation? That makes more sense as a complaint, but if you ever read newspapers you'd not be complaining since you'd be used to it
]]>Dec 24th 2009 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/2015 Networks suspend 3D broadcasts as "dismal failure."]]>Dec 23rd 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/January 2012: 3D Broadcast Begins
December 2012: LHC Destroys earth and 3D Technology. Broadcast in 3D stops as it was a dismal failure.]]>Dec 24th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
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Pre-produced 3D content is almost always hokey and derivative. I did see Avatar in 3D and while it was better than most I don't know how anybody could call that thing revolutionary.

]]>Dec 23rd 2009 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 23rd 2009 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Seriously I heard this same crap when surround sound entered the home theatre market. Same crap when HD came on the scene. People like you will rage against anything that YOU can't see a use for. The rest of us are psyched after seeing what can legitimately be done with 3D in movies like Avatar. A director now needs to add the ability of using 3D in a scene in a way that doesn't feel force fed into their toolbox of skills. Cameron has shown us that it can be done. I'm betting Peter Jackson can do this as well. He was onset during the production of Avatar looking into the tech being used.]]>Dec 24th 2009 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Not to mention the time you use them, a movie lasts one movie, broadcast TV can lead to longer sessions, and then there's the production technique used and the kind of scenes and if it's rendered or real images, and if you are a gamer or a casual viewer probably also has an effect.
]]>Dec 24th 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/]]>Dec 24th 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/it is now THE BEST interface in the cable connectors ...]]>Dec 24th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/]]>Dec 24th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/ ]]>Dec 24th 2009 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Not as bad as all the people that just got new TV's Recievers and DVR's. There must be some way of upgrading equipment without buying all new equipment.]]>Dec 24th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
Exhibit A:
"Quite simply, existing cable and satellite hardware isn't going to be held to the same requirements as Blu-ray and videogame equipment rocking the 3D sticker and expecting compatibility with displays on the way, since they won't be passing the same high quality, high bandwidth dual-stream 1080p images anyway."

Evidently, editors have gone the way of SD...]]>Dec 24th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/Dec 24th 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/hdmi-1-4-spec-getting-freshened-up-in-preparation-for-broadcast/
Plus all the 3D in the world couldn't hide Avatar's horribly tired and cliche-ridden story, at least for me. Hell I think I enjoyed frickin' Beowulf more.

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Same goes for buying movies. If I see that 3D sticker, I assume the producers slaughtered their screenwriters and I'll end up with a bad taste in my mouth at the end of the movie. It screams DON'T BUY to me, and I'll probably check out another movie.

I don't want to pay for a gimicky feature. Make better movies with better actors and new stories. Don't shit in my face by spending anything more than a dollar on 3D "effects" - I am not going to Epcot @ Disney World - I want a good story. Just shoot with two lenses for the sake of the future and make regular, good movies (I'll buy your 3D version if it's backwards compatible with my 2D gear).

Start producing enough worthwhile movies shot in 3D, maybe I will consider it... but our culture's back-catalog of movies is all shot through a single lens and so until the year 2025 when there are >2 decent 3D movies, 3D is an anti-buzzword.

I think anything that boosts _real_ contrast, on-the-cheap, is a much better R&D sink.]]>Dec 25th 2009 1:07AM