expiredpersian_mafia | Staff posted May 05, 2022 05:15 PM
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expiredpersian_mafia | Staff posted May 05, 2022 05:15 PM
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Most of these 3Ds sold for $25-$35 soon after they were released. Many went to $15-$25 in the first year (I think $18 each was a common price I paid). They could've priced these the same as regular Blurays so they were available in the $10-$20 range within a year, but they were greedy and wanted an extra $10-$20 for 3D. Then studios blamed the demise of 3D on people not being interested in 3D when I think it was due to the extra high cost. Now they have to dump loads of these cheap 3Ds when if they had just sold 3D at more reasonable prices to start with, not only would they have been stuck with less to clearance but enough people might have adopted 3D that it wouldn't have died.
If you have a good product but charge a lot more than a comparable product, people shouldn't be surprised when most consumers decide it's not worth paying a lot extra for the premium (3D) product.
Wonder Woman 1984 is an interesting example. It's one of the few 3D movies that dropped super fast in price and I managed to get it for around $12, but now it's down to $9.49. I assume Warner made too many copies of it which is a surprise since I thought almost every studio made tiny MOD batches in lots of 3000 and don't produce more until those sell out, so you would think there would never be more than 3000 copies to clearance and that Warner would not make any more copies if they only sell for $9.49.
Do you have any links/examples of such UK 3D for under $10 shipped to the US?
Hoping the old LG C6 lasts forever...
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My point just that it isn't specific to the active glasses but maybe the TV implementation.
Most people wouldn't use it enough to justify the (admittedly small) extra cost. Then there's the extra cost of the 3d bluray vs the regular bluray version.
There was also the problem of not having a standard for 3d glasses. People were getting confused about what kind of glasses they needed, and then if they needed active glasses there was the issue of having a working battery when you wanted to watch something.
To make matters worse, directors and studios didn't understand 3d well enough to consistently deliver a high enough quality to keep 3d a legitimate endeavor. Too many movies were shot for 2d with no thought of 3d taken into consideration, and then those movies were given crappy conversions. That just helped instill the idea that a movie needed to be shot in *native* 3d to be any good, but then a lot of native 3d movies ended up sucking because they weren't filmed to take advantage of 3d. It all worked against the 3d format as too many movies just weren't good in 3d.
Then you have the added problem that bluray was limited to 1080p, and using 3d glasses either reduces perceived frame rate (active) or reduced resolution (passive), so people were getting a viewing experience somewhere in between DVD and 1080p bluray.
I believe that 3d will be given a 2nd chance with 8k TV. It would allow both eyes to get full 4k+ resolution, and with the added HDR it would improve the overall 3d effect, as the 3d effect is created by slight differences between what each eye sees. A 3d 8k tv w/ HDR would look phenomenal, and I believe we are going to get it with the help of James Cameron and the avatar sequels.
The avatar sequels were delayed and stretched out to allow for technology to catch up with what Cameron is trying to do. The original Avatar hasn't been released on 4k yet because Cameron was going back and improving the image quality so it could be re-released in theaters and *then* released in 4k. I believe something similar would be done to bring 3d to 8k TVs, and the entire avatar franchise on 8k 3d bluray would be what sells people on giving 3d another chance.
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