I also don’t think movie makers are going to abandon the technology. By all reports they love it even more than we do.

Also, if you’re going to bring market forces into it, we consumers have a certain responsibility to send the accurate messages to the distributors. Is 3D awesome? Yes. Is it worth a 40-50% markup? No. (In my opinion.) Free market pricing demands that I tell the produces when the prices are too high in the only way I can.

When I see the markup go down to $2, I’ll see all the real 3D movies I can. (And none of the fake 3D ones.) In the meantime, well, so sad.

Begbert, please take your 4 point argument and put colour in place of 3d, then put yourself in the forties and fifties. The arguments would have been the same.

It’s far easier to be cynical than hopeful or even pragmatic.

Frankly, though, all of these points are kind of pointless: there’s a big wheel of creation, the same one that developed science, industry, cars, and the information revolution. The engine that turns it is capital. Like it or not, if you choose to wedge a crowbar into the engine, you stop not only progress, but everything that is fueled by the engine itself. I.E. you don’t stop capital and keep electricity, because the electric company runs the plants to get paid. Sentiments like “Not another iPad” or “Not 3d” or “Not another generation of game consoles” simply fall on a deaf system because we collectively choose to leave the engine running – they become the product of nothing but cynicism. That is, of course, unless you want to shut off the whole engine – in which case, power to you.

I know I started waxing philosophical there a little bit, but I think it’s all part of the same paradigm confusion.