Yes, the TV's that are "3D ready" are usually the TV's with the best picture
and features. We don't sell them to push 3D. We think they have the best
picture. 3D is just another added feature. I bought a Sony 55 inch "3D ready"
model KDL55NX810 months ago. It has the best picture I have ever seen on a TV.
I did not buy the 3-D glasses. Its a good thing I didn't as they were over $100
at that time and now I could get the new 2011 rechargeable for $29.
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From: James Gresham <jamesalangres...@gmail.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
Roland, you mentioned 3D tv's. Our TV recently died and I found a nice Samsung
to repalce it. One of the options the Samsung came with was 3D. It came with
two pair of glasses which oddly needed charging. While I could have cared less
about this option, I must say with those glasses, on the Samsung TV we have
seen some incredible 3D effects. I think the TV is much better then the
theater experience for 3D. It is actually wonderful. It came as a wonderful
surprise how good it is. JIm
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Roland Lataille
<roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
If this continues, maybe they
will have more screens doing 3-D than flat. Here in Connecticut, the
Manchester Rave theatres are showing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger
Tides in flat, Disney Digital 3D and Imax 3D.
>
>I work in retail and we do sell a large number of 3D ready TV sets. So maybe
>people are staying home to watch the same movie in 3D?
>
>
>
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>From: Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net>
>To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:16 AM
>Subject: [MOPO] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC: 3-D FIZZLE?
>
>
>Will History Repeat Itself? from today's NY Times
>
>Kirby McDaniel
>www.movieart.net
>
>May
29, 2011
>3-D Starts to Fizzle, and Hollywood Frets
>By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY
>LOS ANGELES — Has the 3-D boom already gone bust? It’s starting to look that
>way — at least for American moviegoers — even as Hollywood prepares to release
>a glut of the gimmicky pictures.
>
>Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the
>Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated
>$400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While
>event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D,
>“Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D. “The American consumer is
>rejecting 3-D,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst at the financial services
>company BTIG, wrote of the “Stranger Tides” results.
>
>One movie does not make a trend, but the Memorial Day weekend did not give
>studio chiefs much comfort in the 3-D department. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a
Paramount Pictures release of a DreamWorks Animation film, sold $53.8 million
in tickets from Thursday to Sunday, a soft total, and 3-D was 45 percent of the
business, according to Paramount.
>
>Consumer rebellion over high 3-D ticket prices plays a role, and the novelty
>of putting on the funny glasses is wearing off, analysts say. But there is
>also a deeper problem: 3-D has provided an enormous boost to the strongest
>films, including “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but has actually undercut
>middling movies that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars.
>
>“Audiences are very smart,” said Greg Foster, the president of Imax Filmed
>Entertainment. “When they smell something aspiring to be more than it is, they
>catch on very quickly.”
>
>Muddying the picture is a contrast between the performance of 3-D movies in
>North America and overseas. If results are troubling domestically, they are
>the exact opposite
internationally, where the genre is a far newer phenomenon. Indeed, 3-D
screenings powered “Stranger Tides” to about $256 million on its first weekend
abroad; Disney trumpeted the figure as the biggest international debut of all
time.
>
>With results like that at a time when movies make 70 percent of their total
>box office income outside North America, do tastes at home even matter?
>
>After a disappointing first half of the year, Hollywood is counting on a
>parade of 3-D films to dig itself out of a hole. From May to September, the
>typical summer season, studios will unleash 16 movies in the format, more than
>double the number last year. Among the most anticipated releases are
>“Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” due from Paramount on July 1, and Part 2 of
>Part 7 of the “Harry Potter” series, arriving two weeks later from Warner
>Brothers.
>
>The need is urgent. The box-office performance in the first six months of 2011
>was soft —
revenue fell about 9 percent compared with last year, while attendance was
down 10 percent — and that comes amid decay in home-entertainment sales. In all
formats, including paid streaming and DVDs, home entertainment revenue fell
almost 10 percent, according to the Digital Entertainment Group.
>
>The first part of the year held a near collapse in video store rentals, which
>fell 36 percent to about $440 million, offsetting gains from cut-price rental
>kiosks and subscriptions. In addition, the sale of packaged discs fell about
>20 percent, to about $2.2 billion, while video-on-demand, though growing,
>delivered total sales of less than a quarter of that amount.
>
>At the box office, animated films, which have recently been Hollywood’s most
>reliable genre, have fallen into a deep trough, as the category’s top three
>performers combined — “Rio,” from Fox; “Rango,” from Paramount; and “Hop,”
>from Universal — have had fewer ticket
buyers than did “Shrek the Third,” from DreamWorks Animation, after its
release in mid-May four years ago.
>
>“Kung Fu Panda 2” appears poised to become the biggest animated hit of the
>year so far; but it would have to stretch well past its own predecessor to
>beat “Shrek Forever After,” another May release, which took in $238.7 million
>last year.
>
>For the weekend, “The Hangover: Part II” sold $118 million from Thursday to
>Sunday, easily enough for No. 1. “Kung Fu Panda 2” was second. Disney’s
>“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” was third with $39.3 million for
>a new total of $152.9 million. “Bridesmaids” (Universal Pictures) was fourth
>with $16.4 million for a new total of about $85 million. “Thor” (Marvel
>Studios) rounded out the top five with $9.4 million for a new total of $160
>million.
>
>Studio chiefs acknowledge that the industry needs to sort out its 3-D
>strategy. Despite the soft results
for “Kung Fu Panda 2,” animated releases have continued to perform well in the
format, overcoming early problems with glasses that didn’t fit little faces.
But general-audience movies like “Stranger Tides” may be better off the
old-fashioned way.
>
>“With a blockbuster-filled holiday weekend skewing heavily toward 2-D, and 3-D
>ticket sales dramatically underperforming relative to screen allocation, major
>studios will hopefully begin to rethink their 3-D rollout plans for the rest
>of the year and 2012,” Mr. Greenfield said on Friday.
>
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