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10:59 AM
....You mean make it a marginal standard that only high-end enthusiasts will truly care about for a small percentage of their collection? A standard that will never actually replace the previous model that it intended to displace? A standard that may, admittedly, live on for a long time but only at a percentage of the grandeur it had hoped to achieve?
Awesome. That's exactly what I want from 3DTV.
10:58 AM
On one hand, it's a complete gimmick that they're really pushing on the consumer. It's OLD technology put into your living room for a Premium price. You still have to wear glasses, plus, you need to completely upgrade your media collection to get the 3D effect. It doesn't enhance the experience enough to justify the use; in fact, I think it would be harder to get into a movie when you're conscious of the screen.
On the other hand. This gimmicky bullsh*t is the stuff that drives cost down for basic models. You look at a lot of these high-end TVs, now, they all share the same panels as the lower/cheaper models, but they have all this stupid stuff built in that doesn't justify the extra cost. For example, Widgets, streaming media, ethernet connectivity, maybe different case styling, now it's going to be 3D.
When I buy a TV, I'm only looking for a 50" Monitor, I have a Mediacenter with all that stuff and tuners, etc. So I end up getting a great panel at a cheap price by opting not to go with all that BS.
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As the technology becomes ubiquitous. A lot of people that buy these sets probably won't be seeking the feature out, but rather it will feature that happened to came with the higher-end HDTV set they purchased.
08:31 AM
This info might be a little stale though, since I gathered it when idly pricing out potential 3D displays a few months back for PC gaming.
10:14 AM
Not all 240Hz TVs can accept 3D signals, but in the future it most likely will.
A 3D standard is actually built into HDMI 1.4 specifications.
So in the future all displays that have HDMI will accept 3D, and I'm assuming several years down the line that all displays will have some level of 3D functionality built into them.
Whether people use it or not is an entirely different issue.
[www.hdmi.org]
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At least, that was what they were telling the troops (me included) when I worked for them.
12/04/09
For those not in Rochester, EK is headquartered there. EK's employment in Rochester peak in 1983 with about 68,500 people. It now has less than 8,000 there.
IMHO, EK's downfall is the result of denial. EK demonstrated the first digital camera concept, built the first DSLR for the US military and NASA, and designed the Apple QuickTake 100, the first consumer digital camera. Unfortunately, senior management in the 90's adamently denied that digital photography was going to overtake film as quickly as it did. I remember being told that it would be about 2010 before digital would overtake film.
In the 90's, they brought in George Fisher, their first and still only outside CEO. George came over from Motorola, in a time when Motorola ruled the cellphone industry. Unfortunately, George's efforts to quickly turn the 100+ year old behemoth was, IMHO, sabotaged from within. His division managers kept their heads in the sand and denied that EK needed to change quickly.
I had high hopes that EK would be able to use OLED to recover -- or at least stabilize -- but that's now impossible. Someday soon, I completely expect to read that Kodak is being bought-up by an investment group and liquidated piece-by-piece.
Can anyone think of any other company which has suck so far so quickly?
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Given the approximate time you were there, I'd bet there was a lot of pressure to cater to Wall Street's myopic, "make this quarter look good" mentality and not the long term survival of the company. It's unfortunate that this is much too common.
On that, I have to admire the Japanese mentality of driving toward 5-, 10-, or even 20-year goals rather than just this quarter's or this year's results.
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"She will never know the deliciousness of an almond or walnut."
Edit: Oh James Lipton...
I don't know why I needed a google to refresh my memory but it did. The Actors Studio guy.
Looking at his wiki entry I see we went to the same high school. Just not in the same city or state.
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The joke being I'm sure there is a "Central High School" in almost state if not one in almost every city in every state.
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*shudder*
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That's about 2 digit's from being a serial number.
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