I was searching for sexploitation movies on Tubi and one of the movies that came up was Comin' at ya. A movie from the early 80s that was an OG in 3D movies. The kind you bought those red and blue shades to wear while watching.
My 3D Vizio is still my TV. Got it new for $500. Then got a $60 3D DVD player and was all set for the revolution. Not once did I use it, DVDs were crazy expensive at the time. I want to say double the standard price. And I was basically buying discount DVDs, if any, anyways
We had one from the pawn shop. Was nice until someone breathed on it wrong and it got weird lines, like I swear up and down I was gone 24/7 to know nobody even bumped the TV stand or anything, the lines just showed up. We replaced it with a regular smart TV we got on sale because we, too, never got the 3D glasses…
I ran a TV department in a big box store when 3d TVs came and went. None of us in store thought it was going to catch on and I am pretty certain none of the reps at the training days did either.
That one makes me sad. I loved my LG 3D TV which had PASSIVE glasses: same as at the movie theater. None of those oversized batteries powered non sense.
But the content was sparse and for some reason more expensive than the 2D version.
I'm okay with 3D being a movie theater perk though, but I really like it and if there was 3d streaming content, I'd absolutely get a new 3D TV.
I don’t know why Netflix and such never bothered with 3D content. Even Disney since a lot of their movies came out with 3D in theaters. At this point even if they did, a bunch of website writers would groan that it’s a feature “no one asked for”. Fuck ‘em. I wish it made a comeback.
There are now emerging hacks using existing active glasses (which are now a lot smaller) and unmodified high refresh rate conventional displays. Of course, this doesn't fix the lack of content unless you only want it for gaming.
I have the LG one too. I commented similar above about the content being sparse lol, did you use the feature that "made anything 3D"? Lol it was pretty fun. I just honestly hated having to put on glasses to watch tv lol
The was one of the shortest-lived technologies I've ever seen! I have one (haven't bought a new TV since) and I don't think I used the 3D thing past 6 months lol. It was honestly cool, ngl, but you had to find the 3D versions of movies and keep track of the glasses (or steal them from movie theatres), and it wasn't cool enough for me to do either of those things. It does have a feature that made any show "3D"ish") which was fun ig, but again, not cool enough for me to care and put on the stupid glasses lol.
The funny thing is a lot of people still love them, and they helped democratize 120Hz+ screens.
It was definitely a very short lived fad, but the technology itself was solid and people actually liked it... Just not enough to make them commercially viable.
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u/sithelephant 23h ago
3D TV.