News - 70,000 homes sign up for Sky 3D

[HEXUS]

Three dimensional milestone marked.

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[kalniel]

I'm rather more amazed that houses now appear to be sentient and making purchasing decisions on behalf of the people living there..!

[Rob_B]

Lol - pedant!

Don't you get 3D free with a HD subscription anyway? i.e many of these subscriptions may well be people without a 3D TV just wanting everything for free that they can get? ...or am I making stuff up again?

[cheesemp]

I find this surprising. My work colleagues where all very early adopters of HDTV but not one of them has got a 3d TV (or has any plans too). I can't help but feel some people are just getting this setups to say look what i've got rather than any long term plans to use the technology. To me the technology still doesn't seem ready as you still need glasses!

[Spud1]

Lol - pedant!

Don't you get 3D free with a HD subscription anyway? i.e many of these subscriptions may well be people without a 3D TV just wanting everything for free that they can get? ...or am I making stuff up again?

You get it if you subscribe to "Sky World" (so thats everything - including movies + sports) I think, but not sure if you can subscribe separately..so yes these subscriber numbers are probably enhanced by that and not people actually watching 3D. There is so little 3D content out there anyway, and most of it is sports or animation iirc from when I have browsed the listings.

The thing with 3D is that unlike HD, I suspect people are convinced that the need for glasses will vanish..I'm one of them..so many won't buy until then.

I must admit though that if I had the money i'd upgrade to a 3D set - the lure for me would be gaming..COD or GT5 in 3d

[TheAnimus]

So given that they were braging this morning about 10million, this less than 1% signup rate is actually quite impressive.

I say that because I know lots of geeks, plenty of whom are well healed, and not one wants 3d.

[.havoc]

I think, but not sure if you can subscribe separately..

No you have to have every package including HD

[AlexKitch]

It's all very well deciding that a technology "isn't quite ready" and despairing at the ridiculous "3D bandwagon", but a technology with no market is a technology with no research value.

For that reason, I'm very thankful to the early adopters. Without them, the tech would be no further than it was in 1998.

[oolon]

At the cinema a number of films have come out 3D now, however all the BluRays are 2D versions even Avatar! If you cannot buy content for the format, its difficult for it to take off. Some Green/Red 3d films are been released on DVD like Coraline, however it looks nothing like as good a picture as an active glasses setup would be. (Keeps bending back to 2D, strange colour flashes)

[Rob_B]

At the cinema a number of films have come out 3D now, however all the BluRays are 2D versions even Avatar! <snip>

Unless you buy a certain Panasonic blu ray player! Absolute con.

[Merson]

No you have to have every package including HD

True, but you still have to ring up Sky with your TV model number so they can activate the 3D channel, else it won't work. So no these numbers are not enhanced or buffed.

[aidanjt]

It's all very well deciding that a technology "isn't quite ready" and despairing at the ridiculous "3D bandwagon", but a technology with no market is a technology with no research value.

Even professional film editors doubt the premise of stereoscopy: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html

Lack of development isn't what's wrong with stereoscopy. It's just useless. Let it die the death it deserved over 50 years ago.

[.havoc]

True, but you still have to ring up Sky with your TV model number so they can activate the 3D channel, else it won't work. So no these numbers are not enhanced or buffed.

Erm...I didn't realise I was implying anything like that...just answered the previous posters query is all...

thanks for...clearing that up?

[.havoc]

however all the BluRays are 2D versions even Avatar!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10468735-1.html

From what I have read dotted around the place...I think the Avatar 3D version was always penned in for launch after the normal version. Did hear rumours of it being almost a year after the standard launch.

[Merson]

Erm...I didn't realise I was implying anything like that...just answered the previous posters query is all...

thanks for...clearing that up?

Wasn't saying you was/wasn't. Just like you said clearing it up.

[Funkstar]

It will be interesting to see how the numbers progress moving forward. You would expect a slow take up, then massive or exponential growth, then a tail off.

These 700,000 might be just about all the people that actually want it and the numbers remain almost static moving forward. We just can't tell that yet.