Why the 3D TVs is dead?

Everyone knows 3D TV is dead. The manufacturing of the 3D TVs has been discontinued. Well the 3D TV enthusiasts may feel bad, yet there are some potential reasons for why the 3D TVs failed.

The global success of the 3D TV boosted its development. The 3D TVs were manufactured for home and movie theatres. A steady stream of different makes and models of 3D TV were out in the market. Yet there were some of the limitations which weren’t looked after. Over the time, lot of things turned up and resulted in the complete failure of the 3D TV. Cost, incompatible glasses and bad timings caused the corpse of 3D TV to fall down.

Here is a complete overview of the reasons why the 3D TV failed?

The timing of the introduction of 3D TV was bad: The timing of the introduction of 3D TV was wrong. The implementation of the DTV transition in 2009 in U.S has resulted in the consumer buying disruption. During this time the complete over-the-air TV broadcasting was transitioned from analog to digital.

People out there bought the new HDTVs to meet the anolog-to-digital TV broadcast. However the 3D TV was introduced in 2010. Now the potential customers out there were reluctant to throw away their newly purchased TV and get the new 3D TVs. Many could not afford to get new 3D TV within a year. Thus the timing went wrong.

Incompatible Glasses: The users had to wear the special glasses to see the 3D effects. Also different technologies came into existence to view the 3D content. For instance: LG implemented system named as “Passive Polarized” which showed left and right images simultaneously along with glasses which used polarization to deliver the 3D effect. Samsung and Panasonic introduced the “Active Shutter” system where the users wore glasses that had shutters which opened and closed alternately.

However, the glasses used in these two different systems lacked the interchangeability feature. This means the users who owned the passive glasses could use active glasses. Also the users could not use same active and passive glasses for 3D TVs of different companies. In simple terms the active glasses for LG 3D TV did not work for Panasonic 3D TV. This made matters worse.

Cost: The cost of the glasses for the 3D TV was very high. The active glasses were priced about $100 for a pair, though the passive glasses were bit cheaper. Apart from the glasses there were additional costs ahead. The users had to buy extra hardware such as 3D satellite/cable box along with 3D Blu-ray disc player.

If the users wanted to access Internet, they had to make sure that the 3D TV was in accordance to the 3D streaming Internet services.

The last important thing which led to the failure of the 3D TV was the conversion of 2D to 3D which resulted in poor 3D viewing experience. All these led to the poor response towards the 3D TV thereby forcing the manufacturers to stop the production of new 3D TVs.