Hmm, I wasn't aware that the PS3 will be able to work as a 3D player.

But now there's the whole 3D screen problem...

I must be the only one around here that's totally underwhelmed by the prospect of 3D, but that might be as a result of my only experience of it. It gave me the mother and father of all migraines.

What type did you see? The horrible red/green or red/blue glasses system is utterly useless.

It was the autumn of 1982, and if I recollect correctly it was the red/green flavour.

Oh my. That's kind of like the "magic eye" of the 3D world. Utterly useless.

You want to see polarized or LCD shutter-based 3D. Worlds better. More like looking through your actual eyes, than looking at a slightly 3D mostly black-and-white fuzzy headache inducing drunken world.

If you have an Imax theater near you, you owe it to yourself to see absolutely anything in 3D... :-)

Throughout my teens I suffered regular migraine attacks, a good reason (or excuse) for my not attending too many discos. Then, as various doctors assured me, they simply died out.

Seven years later, without the slightest hint of an attack in the meantime, the ITV (TVS) programme "The Real World" (fronted by former BBC "Tomorrow's World" man, Michael Rodd) ran an experimental 3D TV programme which, blissfully unaware of the stresses it places upon the eyes and brain, I decided to watch.

As I recollect, I thought the experiment to be a bit of a damp squib and once over didn't think much more of it. A little later, however, whilst watching "The Groundstar Conspiracy" on the BBC, the attack started and one which I didn't fully recover from until over two days later.

Fast forward a number of years (a wife, two children, two dogs, a cat and 24 wedding anniversaries - yep, it's our silver this later this year) the technology has improved, or so I'm led to believe. However, I'm also led to believe that improved as it may be it still inflicts significant stress upon one's visual processes, and with my now having bouts of visual disruption (similar to the migraine aura of years ago, though thankfully without the pain and sickness) I've not summoned the courage to suffer the possibility of an excruciating headache, nausea and vomiting to try it. No film is worth that.

Well, with 3D going commonplace, I'm sure you'll soon be able to head down to any electronics store and see if today's technology affects you, without risk of having to suffer through two hours if it does!

Or I could stick with plain old 2D or even go full circle, give up video altogether and return to simple 2 channel Hi-Fi.

Darn, all this nostalgia (the Spendor thread in the CI Lounge didn't help) think I'm going to have to consider writing a reminiscing blog about the good old, bad old days, and things like this . . .



this . . .



this . . .



and these (the speakers)