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paolo,Apr 27 2010, 07:29 AM Wrote:Don't even get me started on 3DTV.   Apparently, some people can't watch 3DTV, it affects their eyes in such a way.
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I experienced this when I went to watch "Alice" with my wife, and my brother-in-law at the South Keys Cineplex here in Ottawa.

Some of the highspeed scenes that used 3D heavily bothered my eyes a lot, and I just felt "Off" after watching them. I actually had to take the 3D glasses off and look away from the screen in the scene where she fell down the rabbit hole...it just made my eyes and part of my head/face hurt trying to watch it. Ever since, we have gone to the 2D showings of other movies if they were offered in both versions. That turned out to be great actually, there were a lot more seats in better locations that way in the 2D screenings...hehehe.

And listening to you guys talk about the Flat panels and 3D Full HDTV's that everyones buying or watching is kinda funny. It's funny because I only have a 30" 16:9 widescreen JVC I'Art CRT that displays 1080i and 720p. What's even funnier, is that I just bought a 2nd one...exact same model and build year as the first one, for our bedroom, from http://www.usedottawa.com I got it for $100, which isn't bad considering my original one was around $1100 about 5 years ago. Both work fine though, since we have Rogers Digital VIP with the HD channels (which are only 720p anyways), and an Upscaling Marantz DVD player running into a Marantz THX Certified HT receiver that predates HDMI by a year (though the TV and DVD player have it).

Anyways, I guess the short version of what I'm saying, is that I'm ok with older technology at the moment...