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"  Last week at CES \u2014 along with thousands of people who couldn&amp;#039;t seem to walk more than ten feet without stopping abruptly in front of me, beautiful booth women who refused to cooperate with my surreptitious photography, and this guy \u2014 there were a lot of 3-D TVs. Sony had them. Samsung had them. Toshiba had them. Mitsubishi had them with lasers. They were all anyone could talk about. Yet I found them depressing. Instead of focusing on OLED \u2014 the most promising TV tech yet, with a picture so crisp it looks like it has actual depth \u2014 everyone (almost) had gotten distracted. It&amp;#039;s not that I don&amp;#039;t get the appeal of 3-D. Watching things in 3-D can be spectacular (especially on the new line of Samsungs, which I found particularly striking). Just not on my TV. And not all the time. Like ice cream, 3-D is an occasional treat. To the right situation, it adds an extra degree of pleasure. But once it becomes a part of your routine? Diabetes. For instance, 2008&amp;#039;s Journey to the Center of the Earth. Aside from a cool trick with a yo-yo, there was no reason for that movie to be in 3-D. (There was actually no reason for that movie altogether, but I digress.) If I could watch everything this way, I&amp;#039;d become accustomed to it. Then when something that deserved an extra dimension came along \u2014 like Avatar or Modern Family&amp;#039;s Sofia Vergara \u2014 I would no longer be wowed by its novelty. I&amp;#039;d no longer be wowed at all. For now, when these TVs do come out (by some optimistic estimates, later in 2010), I&amp;#039;ll be leaving my $10,000 in the bank. And I&amp;#039;ll be leaving my taste for 3-D footage where it belongs: at the theater. RELATED LINKS:  HOW IT WORKS: Esquire&amp;#039;s Augmented Reality Is a 3-D Treat You Can Get Behind THE ENDORSEMENT: Why Avatar&amp;#039;s 3-D Glasses Made Cameron&amp;#039;s Epic More Transformative PLUS: How the Jonas Brothers and 3-D Killed Music Altogether "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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