Look away from the screen and there's a rapid blinking effect. These glasses are complex, expensive and need power, which means recharging.

The screen flashes up alternate images for the left eye and the right and the glasses synchronise to block the right eye from seeing the left's images and vice versa. Early on, active 3D, the only 3D format available, required active-shutter glasses. If 10 per cent of people feel sick, or even 5 per cent or 2 per cent, it's enough to turn the whole market off.''īut the biggest turnoff is the glasses. As Encel notes: ''It doesn't matter if this affects you or not. I was disappointed when I borrowed some kids to watch The Adventures of Tintin and they asked to see a regular session because 3D made them feel sick. Many are animations, many weren't shot in 3D but were converted afterwards, most are titles you've never heard of.įinally, there are the people who become dizzy or get headaches with 3D. Try finding the 3D discs among the rows of DVDs and Blu-rays anywhere that sells movies and you'll eventually find a modest offering. The stony silence about 3D coverage of next year's winter Olympics is an example. And broadcasters have shown a lack of commitment to doing more. Apart from the Foxtel channel (good if you like foreign sport), 3D broadcasts have been rare. His view was underlined by a Canstar survey concluding that more than two-thirds of Australians buying a television considered 3D a fad. The hype, he said, outweighed the delivery. Last year Brian Markwalter, a senior vice-president with the Consumer Electronics Association in the US, told a Sydney meeting the rush to launch 3D led to confusion, and retailers with little understanding of it weren't good at demonstrations. The glasses haven't been the only reason 3D has failed. But then, lots of smart people said we'd win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.'' What surprised me was that so many smart people said it would be successful.

''There were plenty of smart people back then who predicted its failure. In 2010, he assured me 3D would fail, because of the glasses required for viewing.ĭoes he feel clever, now he's been proved correct?

Some, such as Alex Encel, a Melbourne importer handling high-end audio and televisions, saw its fatal flaw from the beginning.

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