Do you think 3D TV, the kind you don't need glasses to see, is the norm of the future?

It will last – there has been to much R&D and tooling, etc., for it to be a passing fad. Locally large screen Plasma and LCD TVs are about one third of their price of a year ago. They don’t dump current stock unless they are pretty sure that it really is superseded.

Yep, I do. 3D television set, gaming and internet are coming.

And I can’t wait!!!

If it’s glasses-free yes, otherwise, I wouldn’t support it for two reasons:

1. I don’t want to wear those glasses, they are uncomfortable and annoying
2. If I really want to see something in 3D, odds are I also want to see it on the big screen.

The one thing I would say it would work for is as @FishGutsDale said, GAMING. I would get it just for that.

@DarkScribe I see your logic, but I don’t think it would be too hard of a task to come up with a list of things that had R&D and tooling etc, and the tech still failed. So I don’t think those factors alone guarantee that it won’t be a fad.

@mrrich724 So I don’t think those factors alone guarantee that it won’t be a fad.

When all of the major manufactures stop production of current technology and announce that by the end of this financial year that the new technology will be in place, I think you can be pretty sure that it will happen. Don’t forget that a 3D TV will receive and display current HD digital as well as 3D. They are dual system.

Well if it’s dual system, I think they should take a little more effort in pointing that out, b/c I like looking at tech stuff, and I didn’t even know that. If that’s the case, then yea, it’s going to happen no matter what, b/c the consumer mind is generally set up to think, “well if I can only pay this much extra, and get this in return” whether or not they want the “extra,” they will still buy it. So it’s sold . . . to anyone on the market for a good TV!