It’s hard not to think, though, that this Christmas marks the last mainstream hurrah for 3D Blu-ray. Not that it’s stopped people trying to sell it. In the home, where the screen generally doesn’t fill even half of your field of vision – unless you own impressive AV equipment, or sit far too close to the screen – it’s a much harder sell. Thus, it’s feasible to sit there for two hours wearing not always very comfortable glasses glaring at a picture. The picture takes up the majority of your field of vision, without the distraction of the dog needing to go out, the fridge calling to request emptying, or the phone ringing. In a cinema, attention tends – in theory – to be concentrated firmly on the massive screen in front of you. Wherever you sit on the 3D fence – and we know that some of you are avid fans of 3D Blu-ray – it’s nonetheless not too hard to see a demarcation.
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There is still 3D available via Sky services on demand, but it’s reduced to a small collection of films, and a few TV shows. In broadcast television, Sky 3D was made available in 2010, but all but quietly retired in 2015. It’s smaller manufacturers who are keeping the proverbial flag flying. LG and Sony stopped doing so at the start of this year. In 2016, Samsung dropped 3D support from its television range. Reflecting the fact that more and more major television manufacturers are moving away from 3D televisions in their ranges – you can still buy a 3D TV, but the choice has tightened a lot, and a good deal of the choice is legacy stock – so there are signs that the disc format is very slowly drying up.Īnd big companies have been giving up the fight. While 3D continues to battle on in cinemas, with sufficient support still in the pipeline from enough blockbuster movies to justify premium priced screenings, it’s been a different story in the home. Interestingly, Disney has opted not to mirror the US and release an Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray edition, but to stick with 3D as its premium format for the release.īut Disney is proving to be something of an exception to the rule. For alongside the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Disney/Pixar’s Cars 3 is a Blu-ray 3D version. If you head to your local HMV this week (should you have one), then a glimpse at the best-selling discs chart will see something that might soon become something of a rarity.
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