B.Moxham said:
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I remember when 3D first hit the shelves 3D was touted to be "just a fad" and "it will never last" and when it finally does come to fruition, everyone is up in arms about it.
Your post comes accross as a sneery example of schadenfreude.
What people are up in arms about is the decision to drop 3D televisions; when almost every 3D cinema blockbuster has been, and continues to be, released on 3D Blu-ray.
The studios wouldn't be releasing 3D Blu-ray's if there wasn't money in it for them. 3D has been dropped not because there is no demand for it; but because the TV companies want to.
The TV manufacturers have encouraged people to buy into 3D; to make investments in 3D films, 3D players and 3D TV's. And what do they show to those people who took them up on their call to go 3D - nothing but contempt.
That is why people are up in arms.
The TV manufacturers could have gone a different route. They could have made 3D a premium feature giving their top on sets a genuine USP. They could have still given their most loyal customers a means of playing back their software.
How would you feel if you spent a not inconsiderable sum of money investing in Dolby Atmos; buying a Dolby Atmos equipped AVR, speakers and discs. And then found out when you came to replace your hardware that the manufacturers had decided to abandon Atmos completely and that you could no longer play your discs in Atmos? You would feel justifiably aggrieved.
Everyone should be up in arms about this, whether they own 3D discs or not, because this action is simply wrong.
Allowing manufacturers to remove the ability for us to replay the software they encouraged us to buy sets a dangerous precedent. It means no feature of our software is safe and could be removed by manufacturers at a whim.
And we should all be worried about that.