Looks like I'm being forced to join the 4K revloution.  My 3D HD TV crapped out
and I have to buy a new TV.  I went with 4K because it would not make any
sense to stick with HD because everyting is slowly switching over and even the
"small" 32 inch screens are going 4K.  The TV manufactures stopped making 3D
sets in 2016 and there is no "old stock", (with the exception of one 65 inch
screen which is too big for the small room here).

This also means a new 4K player and 4K receiver.  The HD ones will not pass a
4K signal.  I went with the Sony 49 inch screen which is only 8 inches bigger
than my 40 inch that I have now.  Also went with an Onkyo receiver and LG
player.  A mix of brand names but the best combination for what I am doing.  It
all arrives Friday and I'm sort of excited.

The 3D TV's main board "went".  It keeps jumping out of "Cal Day" into Dynamic
mode.  Put it in Cal Day and it jumps out in about 20 minutes.  This is the
second time the main board went, the first time was replaced and recalibarated
under waranty.  Wonder if they will get it at the recycle center plug it in and
"save it"?  I'll bet someone there will get a cheap find.  (How much stuff at
the recycle centers gets repurposed)?

So why did they stop making 3D TVs?  For a while you could buy a 3D 4K TV.  And
if this had happened a year or so ago there proabably would have been some
stock around and I could have had a 4K 3D system.  3D failed for a number of
reasons.

The biggest was that the glasses that each manufacturer needed to supply were
not compataable with different sets.  You could not watch a 3D movie on a
Samsung with a set of glasses from a Sony or LG set and visa-versa.  Another
reason was brightness.  They did not address the brighness issue with 3D
movies.  You always were looking through a set of darkend glasess.  Even in the
theater the movie is "darker" than a normal film, tho the darkness of the
theater compensates some.  They would have had to overly brighten the Blu-ray
for home theaters which would have meant two version on a disc because the
2D version would be over saturated by just showing "one eye" for 2D.  Finally
media.  The meadia was not promoted outside of Blu-ray releases of theater
versions.  And even some of the theater versions were never released in 3D.
Also the movie industry made relativly few 3D releases compared to "Real D" as
it was called.  And lastly the broadcast industry never supported 3D outside of
a few sport specials.

So what is the future of 4K?  Will the broadcast industry pick up on it?  Will
HD die a slow death like the 8 Track, Cassett, and even standard the DVD which,
though you can still buy the media, players are becoming harder to find in
stores because the price of a Blu-ray player has come down to the same price
level as many bargain DVD players?

High end, large screen 8K TVs are supposed to be out for the Christmas season
in either 2019 or 2020, manufactures are being tight lipped about when but have
been actively working on the technology and like 4K will be introduced with a
price tag in the thousands.  But look how little time it took for 4K to come
down in price and screen size to where HD is now.  In 5 years you may be unable
to buy an HD screen or DVD player.

Technology is always moving forward.
 


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