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I am shocked, shocked to hear that 3D was an expensive gimmick that didn't justify the cost because sales were crap. Next you'll be telling me Atmos is going down the drain because nobody wants to spend another 1000 dollars to install speakers in their roofs! Heavens to murgatroyd!
 

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I think the fact that WB/MGM went to the trouble to convert Creed to 3D is a good sign of 3D's vitality....
But that's theatrical 3D, which is doing perfectly fine, you're absolutely right. Its home consumer 3D that's the massive dud. And I cannot fathom why a lot of people here seem to think the theatrical 3D sales will translate to 3D television/blu ray sales. Because its been 7 years and it still hasn't happened.
 

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Creed 3D appears to have been quietly reissued in a handful of markets in the format. People who've seen it says it looks terrible so it might have be rejected initially for QC.

In the United States? Internationally?
 

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I have admit that this DIGITAL BITS report is very worrisome:

http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/021016_1500
The IB Times article is incorrect in saying that Sky TV in the UK has canned 3D. Although Sky no longer has a dedicated 3D channel they still show a good range of films and documentaries in 3D and at no extra cost for Sky Movies subscribers. Only recently, with the launch of their new Q receiver, they confirmed their continuing commitment to provide 3D programming.
 

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I think this thread should have its title amended to:
How the Studios, Theatre Owners, TV Manufacturers and Online Media Fearmongering All But Killed 3D
 

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But that's theatrical 3D, which is doing perfectly fine, you're absolutely right. Its home consumer 3D that's the massive dud. And I cannot fathom why a lot of people here seem to think the theatrical 3D sales will translate to 3D television/blu ray sales. Because its been 7 years and it still hasn't happened.

I'm sure it's likely been mentioned several times in this thread, but a huge factor has to be that prices for 3D Blu-Ray titles were, more often than not, ridiculously inflated. I just can't believe that the addition of a 3D disc would warrant double to triple, in some cases, the price of the regular 2D counterpart.
 

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I'm sure it's likely been mentioned several times in this thread, but a huge factor has to be that prices for 3D Blu-Ray titles were, more often than not, ridiculously inflated. I just can't believe that the addition of a 3D disc would warrant double to triple, in some cases, the price of the regular 2D counterpart.

That's the same reason that basic blu-ray has never caught on to levels that would supplant DVD as the primary physical media. Blu prices have always been significantly higher than DVD, but the difference in quality is negligible to the public-at-large. So people continue to primarily buy DVD rather than Blu (especially when a stand-alone DVD is still offered at a significantly lower price than the DVD/Blu combo pack).
 

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That's the same reason that basic blu-ray has never caught on to levels that would supplant DVD as the primary physical media. Blu prices have always been significantly higher than DVD, but the difference in quality is negligible to the public-at-large. So people continue to primarily buy DVD rather than Blu (especially when a stand-alone DVD is still offered at a significantly lower price than the DVD/Blu combo pack).

I disagree with you here. Yes, Blu-Rays are generally more expensive than DVDs but in most cases only slightly so. It's usually not much more than a few dollars. And nowadays that really only applies to new releases. Today I could walk into a Best Buy and find scores of movies on BD for dirt cheap (I even occasionally see BDs marked down even lower than their DVD counterparts) The price gap between DVD and BD isn't even close to the gap between BD and 3D BD in most cases.
 

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I'm sure it's likely been mentioned several times in this thread, but a huge factor has to be that prices for 3D Blu-Ray titles were, more often than not, ridiculously inflated. I just can't believe that the addition of a 3D disc would warrant double to triple, in some cases, the price of the regular 2D counterpart.
Yeah its all about the cost. The hardware is pricier and harder to find (I don't think I've seen a single 3D television/bluray combo pack for sale at my local Walmart) unless you live in a metropolitan area, and the software is way overpriced and collecting dust on shelves. And for some reason we always have people here who scream bloody murder over the fact that studios are no longer doing many 3D blurays when its obvious that they're finally getting the fact that the demand simply isn't there. Why replicate special discs that are just going to occupy the same slots at Walmart, never moving for years on end?

And lets get one thing straight: Outside of television, DVD is legitimately dead. You really can't get DVD only releases of most new movies anymore and blu-ray players are dirt cheap now anyway. That war is over, now its the one between us and those fearmongers who just want to get rid of physical media all-together.
 
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Yeah its all about the cost. The hardware is pricier and harder to find (I don't think I've seen a single 3D television/bluray combo pack for sale at my local Walmart) unless you live in a metropolitan area, and the software is way overpriced and collecting dust on shelves. And for some reason we always have people here who scream bloody murder over the fact that studios are no longer doing many 3D blurays when its obvious that they're finally getting the fact that the demand simply isn't there. Why replicate special discs that are just going to occupy the same slots at Walmart, never moving for years on end?

And lets get one thing straight: Outside of television, DVD is legitimately dead. You really can't get DVD only releases of most new movies anymore and blu-ray players are dirt cheap now anyway. That war is over, now its the one between us and those fearmongers who just want to get rid of physical media all-together.

Here's the true test. If "The Force Awakens" is not released in 3D, then yeah, 3D BD is dead.
 

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You'd think that something like The Force Awakens would sell a lot of 3D equipment, though the 3D in that wasn't hyped too much.
 

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