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I hope they've improved the technology since the last time I tried it, around 1954. Those little red and green cardboard glasses were uncomfortable and the images on the screen in the theater were all skewed.

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I hope they've improved the technology since the last time I tried it, around 1954. Just barely, the colors are better but except for that, the illusion still suffers exactly the same problems as it did back in 1954.

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The modern glasses even are too heavy and uncomfortable. Eyes get tired. I prefer they concentrate on making a good movie, rather than put the effort into the 3D. A bad movie is horrible enough without it being in 3 dimensions

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If I had these oakleys http://goo.gl/rYN64 I think I might like it more.

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They're always the same. Someone pointing a sword or something at you.

3D is a fad and will be gone in a few years.

I'd rather watch a good movie with a good story. All the 3D movies have been rubbish. I don't want to watch a movie with an extra dimension of crappyness.

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I already wear glasses to see.. having to put an additional pair of heavy plastic glasses over my prescription ones drives me crazy.

Hate 3D movies and the trend that is becoming prolific

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I voted "No". Even when the theater does what they're supposed to and overdrive the projection lamp to compensate, the glasses still make the picture dark and muddied. Maybe if they ever come up with a pair of glasses that do not reduce the brightness, I'll change my vote. Until then...

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To be honest, I haven't seen that many 3D movies.

Avatar was such a terrible movie that if it had not been for the 3D effects, I would have walked out half way through.

The last Harry Potter movie was good, but the 3D was distracting.

The jury is still out, as far as I'm concerned.

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Avatar sucked, story was Pocahontas in space and gave me a headache. 3D Tin Tin wasn't so bad. I'll try Avengers in 3D. I still voted "no" on this poll, though.

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Perhaps if they had the technology to watch a 3D movie without the glasses, then it might be worthwhile, but I refuse to be uncomfortable (I wear prescription glasses already) for very little benefit.

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Perhaps if they had the technology to watch a 3D movie without the glasses, then it might be worthwhile, but I refuse to be uncomfortable (I wear prescription glasses already) for very little benefit.

3D without glasses can be done now, but it would only work for someone centered on the screen and a specified distance from the screen. Everyone else in a theater would get headaches as their eyes strained to focus. Not a big money maker if you can only show it to one person at a time.

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I'm among the 63% who say no.

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I only like movies that are really self-consciously kitschy and that use 3D to be even more kitsch. Drive Angry for example was awesome, because it doesn't pretend to be anything but a fun lightweight homage to old exploitation flicks. Harold and Kumar also was fun, because they use it only as a funny gimmick, and they were very transparent about it.

Otherwise, 3D is horrible. When the movie tries to be serious and they use this gimmick, it just doesn't work well.

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makes my eyes hurt

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I can't wait until the 3D fad is gone.

3D s the first innovation in TV technology that actually makes TV unwatchable for a certain segment of the population: if you don't have stereoscopic vision, all you'll see on your screen is a blurred mess.

No previous "improvement" has ever excluded people quite like this one. When sound was added to films, deaf people could still see the images as they always had (and thanks to subtitles, can now read the dialogue too). When color came to TV, the color-blind may not have gotten the full effect, but they certianly didn't lose anything comared to black and white. The recent move to high-definition is no skin off your nose if you have low visual acuity; you might not be able to discern all those tiny pixels, but you're no worse off than you were with standard definition.

Contrast all these improvements with what's coming with 3D: 3D images are unseeable for anyone blind in one eye, anyone with differing vision levels in each eye, and anyone who has vision in both eyes but lacks the ability to use both eyes simultaneously.

In an era when being able to see electronic screens is more important than ever, for the sake of the visually impaired, 3D needs to remain right were it is: a niche and a fad.

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Perhaps if they had the technology to watch a 3D movie without the glasses

I believe that's called "not watching a movie"

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I saw truly AMAZING 3D films at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama when I was in junior high. The screen wrapped around behind you and you watch something fly out of the screen at you and then you could TURN YOUR HEAD TO THE SIDE and watch the object continue, passing your head.

Now 3D is mainly looking INTO the depths of a box and occasionally something flies out... kinda.

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3D is something that very few consumers want that is being almost entirely forced onto us by the industry's greed since they can make more money off 3D screenings of movies compared to 2D ones.

I would be fine to use the glasses at the cinema if they didnt dim the image, and werent scratched and blurred. I find it incredibly frustrating to have to look through a pair of glasses that ruin the image quality due to their bad treatment by other users.

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Wow, this poll really shows that they went completely wrong direction here.

So dear Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Sharp or whoever else is in that nonsense 3D bandwagon, get rid of that crap, and give us super HD with better energy efficiency, on demand programs and improved media and storage options.

Hope y'all reading this!

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I voted Yes. 3D is the natural state of things, and there's no reason films shouldn't be the same (unless there are artistic reasons for it's exclusion). However, I prefer to watch 3D movies on Blu-ray at home where I know I can get a bright 3D image with my display. I wear prescription glasses but the 3D glasses are a non-issue, I put them over my glasses and don't give it another thought. I don't see any need to be uptight about it.

There are plenty of bad 3D films out there that I have no interest in watching, but quality really has nothing to do with 3D. There are bad 2D films just as bad 3D, and it's not like you can get a better script by ditching 3D. Script writers write the scripts, actors deliver the dialog, and the cinematographers handle the 3D. Do you really want to ask the camera operators to stop worrying about 3D and write up some dialog?

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If the movie has been designed around the concept of 3-D technology, then the story is likely to suffer in exchance for over-the-top CG and other special effects. If, however, it's a good movie and 3-D tech supplements the action, for example, then I like it. I voted 'depends', though, and not solely based on story -- I believe that certain genres are better suited to 3-D than others. Action movies and thrillers are sometimes made more fun with 3-D tech, but no one needs to see a romantic comedy or the like in 3-D (porn might be interesting! haha).

Anyway, 3-D has come and gone before, and like I've said in previous articles I don't think it'll be around too much longer, and will soon be replaced by holographic (like) projection. As such I feel kind of sorry for people who shelled out so much for the 3-D TVs. They'll be like MD players in a few years.

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3D technology in TVs is actually so cheap that I think almost all TVs will have the capability going forward. Of course they charged very high prices for 3D TVs a few years back when that was something new, that's not the case now. I saw a 32" 3DTV at the store recently for 30,000 yen.

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I like 3D. I got a phone with a 3D camera and it really gives adds something to a lot of photos. I climbed Mt Fuji and looking at the view in 3D vs in 2D, in 3D you can really feel how majestic it is vs how the flatness of 2D removes any scale or depth.

3D movies are fine too, with the current tech it can get tiring after a while though - Avatar was about 30 minutes too long.

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Technically there has only been 2 movies filmed in true 3D. That being Avatar as well as Transformers Dark Side of the Moon which was used to great effect. Most films are post production converted after the film has been done. Which really isn't benefiting of the technology much. When you see a real 3D film vs a post production one the difference is clear. Both James Cameron & Michale Bay have been highly critical of those which are using it just as a means of justifying higher ticket prices. Carmon is largely responsible for developing the true 3D technology which wasn't even available just a few years ago. My home town has one of just a few Big D large format digital screens in the country which support true 3D. It is a completely different filming process which takes time to learn.

Not to mention has more risks involved when filming & cost considerably more then a traditional film. I doubt the technology will last much longer though if movie studios continue to use it in such ways. My feeling is that if 3D doesn't add significantly to how the picture is seen. It has no business being done in the first place. TV's have done a fair job recreating the effect but were not really designed for the 3D stereoscopic field of view. Projectors are better suited for that as gives you more depth perception which is currently limited to the size your your TV. Anything below a 70 inch set is to small to get the right effect. It needs to be an event like was with Avatar. Seeing it any other way you would have missed the film. 3D's future is uncertain at this point though if Hollywood is left in charge lol.

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