I sincerely hope that the extra capacity on Freeview is not wasted on 3D. Of all the new developments that have come along recently 3D is by far the biggest waste of time and effort. Watching a 3D TV reminds me of those old children's toy play theatres that used characters on flat card. If you imagine a flat piece of card with a character on it and then another character on another flat piece of card placed behind it that is what 3DTV looks like - a series of flat planes with no depth to individual characters. As Brian says above, it is not 3D it is stereoscopic, a principle that has been around as long as photography and stereoscopy is only an illusion of depth to a scene. That is why the human eye and brain do not like it, normally the eye scans a scene and focuses separately on near and then far objects - it cannot do this with 3DTV or 3D cinema - the image is still on a flat plane - the TV screen - and the eye is attempting to focus beyond that plane, hence the headaches and other medical symptoms that manufacturers of 3DTVs warn about in their instruction booklets.
Additional HD services is the more likely result of the extra capacity and that can only be a good thing.
Monday 22 August 2011 5:23PM
I sincerely hope that the extra capacity on Freeview is not wasted on 3D. Of all the new developments that have come along recently 3D is by far the biggest waste of time and effort. Watching a 3D TV reminds me of those old children's toy play theatres that used characters on flat card. If you imagine a flat piece of card with a character on it and then another character on another flat piece of card placed behind it that is what 3DTV looks like - a series of flat planes with no depth to individual characters. As Brian says above, it is not 3D it is stereoscopic, a principle that has been around as long as photography and stereoscopy is only an illusion of depth to a scene. That is why the human eye and brain do not like it, normally the eye scans a scene and focuses separately on near and then far objects - it cannot do this with 3DTV or 3D cinema - the image is still on a flat plane - the TV screen - and the eye is attempting to focus beyond that plane, hence the headaches and other medical symptoms that manufacturers of 3DTVs warn about in their instruction booklets.
Additional HD services is the more likely result of the extra capacity and that can only be a good thing.