CES and All New Things

As I sit here (not at CES and not having been there), it seems that all the news coming out of CES is talking about 3D TV, eBooks and tablet computers.

I find the industry preoccupation with 3D rather disappointing, and most of my industry technical colleagues are similarly underwhelmed, notably because even as being early adopters, we see major consumer issues with home consumption of the format that will block its acceptance by paying majority.

I believe that it will be a huge white elephant that will occupy the industry wastefully until they realise that it will not have universal appeal and has significant issues due to the need to wear special glasses, sit in specific orientation to the screen and has a motion sickness effect on a good proportion of the population, and also seems to be only suited to event driven, specially prepared content.

At least that is my view until some organisations asks me to be involved in a 3D development/delivery :-)

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