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Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

By Adrienne Maxwell on July 26, 2011 3:09 PM

ARS Technica is reporting on a new study that appears in the Journal of Vision, entitled "The zone of comfort: Predicting visual discomfort with stereo displays," which finds that viewers experience more eye strain and fatigue and less vision clarity after viewing 3D video, compared with 2D video. The study was partly funded by Samsung's R&D arm

http://www.hdtvetc.com/3d/shocking-revelation-3d-causes-eye-strain-1.php

Full study article here:

http://www.journalofvision.org/content/11/8/11

Athanasios

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject:

Do you know how paranoid I am right now about spammers? This headline almost had me hit the NUKE button! Smile

HK-Steve · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:00 pm Post subject:

Curt, just ban him for a week, so he can get some work done. Ha Ha

Interesting article.

Cheers

gjaky · Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 2802 Location: Budapest, Hungary

Is this really surprising? After 10mins of the first 3D move I've seen I felt my eyes tired, anyway I am not impressed with today's consumer 3D technology at all...

HaydnG90 · Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 1356

I have no plans to invest in a 3D setup. An optimized 2D picture is more than enough to satisfy and bring a big grin to my face.

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

Gannon · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:59 am Post subject:

Yeah, this is quite vindicating for me...I attended my first trade show in over 3 years at last fall's CEDIA...and went around in awe of the sheer idiocy that has overtaken our industry over this 3d crap. I found myself ostracized more powerfully than at any other time in my professional career, but didn't mind it at all.

I really want to start a critical magazine called AudioVideo INsanity...because that is what this industry has become, fully and completely.

After last week's Dwin fiasco, and awaiting three clients who've been dilly-dallying over projects that could help turn around my financial straights largely caused by the lingering elusive ending of my sabbatical, I am strongly entertaining leaving the industry entirely.

I am not sure it is worth it any longer.

At the same time, I just finished my 30th reunion of high school...recounting to many people, over and over and over, what has fueled my career trajectory. Many of these folks knew me from first grade...a few even kindergarten...and not a one of them was surprised. AV Room chief in 8th grade, $3,500 worth of hifi (in 1979 dollars, over $10k today), Tech Hifi my first job after school...peaking with the Technical Editor position with Stereophile Guide to Home Theater, before the whole sea-change of our world in 9/11 threw me for such a loop that I finally dropped out of everything three years ago...

...all to say, my passion remains. I truly ENJOY when the sound and picture are 'just right' but not overblown. I am now enjoying a burgeoning reputation for staging, mixing, and recording live music here in Detroit.

But if my musician friends cannot make a living at it, the 'sound guy' will be forever wanting as well. <sigh>

I'm whining, I know. Three-D sucks. The stupidity of the huge backwards steps in BluRay reduce that format's benefits enough to ignore it all. HDMI with the ever-present HDCP will KILL the industry. Chinese manufacturing decimated production in many other countries, and the nearly complete lack of quality control is killing dealers, while simultaneously eliminating service centers...because so much of this crap is throw-away.

Did I mention that 3d just sucks...and I can make nearly any CRT have deep enough blacks to truly show a depth dimension to regular 2d material, which is surely more enjoyable than the idiotic reach-from-the-screen effects so many 3d directors cannot seem to keep themselves from using (it is like so much 3d-Tourettes, they cannot help themselves...)

The home entertainment industry is doomed, and Gary Shapiro is cheerleading its demise. Mark my words, and 3d is the first domino to fall...

NO cheers on this one...thanks for reading my rant. At least in this crowd, it probably landed pretty well.

Sincerely,
John
Detroit

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

Gannon · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:34 am Post subject:

You know it...and I was running around telling them their new emporer had no f'in' CLOTHES ON...LOL.

I am starting to regret even the HD switchover...heh. So it is not only 57...no 570 channels with nothing on...now we can see that even MORE clearly.

Hollywood is bankrupt of new ideas. Everything is a redo of something they've done before...only more outrageous and with special effects that are nearly undiscernable from reality...I dunno...in most cases, the story lacks. It might be inversely proportional...better the effects, the worse the story and least the viewer can become truly involved in it. We're assaulted by it instead.

I'm sick of being assaulted by my hifi...LOL! Won't ever turn it up to eleven again...last time it cost me two B&K monster amps, only the 3rd and 4th ones I've EVER blown up in my 30+ years in the business. But I needed to impress Michigan's coolest manufacturer's rep...LOL.

Cheers!