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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/24/2025 12:27 PM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:37:02 +1300, Your Name    
   > wrote:   
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   >> 3D in every form has never really been popular, partly thanks to   
   >> needing silly glasses of one type or another. There are new computer   
   >> monitors that do 3D without needing glasses, which might move up to   
   >> bigger TV screens, but again it's really just a gimmick to part fools   
   >>from their money, and there will be hardly any actual content to watch   
   >> (other than perhaps a re-release of the few awful old 3D movies, like   
   >> "Jaws 3D").   
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   > /Consumer Reports/ reviewed HDTVs which could play "3d" (stereoscopic)   
   > movies without glasses, This works by putting each image out on   
   > alternate lines. Kind of like interlacing, although I do not recall if   
   > that was actually used.   
   >   
   > Their report was that this worked -- but, of course, resolution was   
   > halved and so the result was clearly inferior.   
   >   
   > It did occur to me that doing this with a 4K TV would produce 2K   
   > resolution, which might work acceptably. It should go without saying   
   > that such a set would play non-"3d" (stereoscopic) movies at 4K   
   > (upscaled if necessary). I don't recall if a special player was   
   > needed.   
   >   
   > And this presumes that /Consumer Reports/ took the appropriate steps   
   > when I wrote into them about their first DVD player article. This had   
   > two problems:   
   >   
   > 1. It complained that it could not record, thus showing that the   
   > Consumer's Union believed each and every one of its members was in   
   > intentional and frequent violation of the copyright laws by recording   
   > over-the-air programming. IOW, it thought we were all thieves.   
      
   When was this? Time shifting TV has been legal for over 40 years:   
      
    From Wikipedia:   
      
   "Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417   
   (1984), also known as the "Betamax case", is a decision by the Supreme   
   Court of the United States which ruled that the making of individual   
   copies of complete television shows for purposes of time shifting does   
   not constitute copyright infringement, but can instead be defended as   
   fair use."   
      
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