Showmen Sell It Hot #5

Showmen: Hondo and What Happened to 3-D TV's?, Plus The StingGlasses Given Out So Viewers Can Watch Once-Only 1991 TV Run of Hondo in 3DProducing Partners John Wayne and Robert FellowsHONDO (1954) --- Why did they take away 3D televisions? Were we being punished for something? There’s eerie effect to corporations that make a policy decision, all hands down with it. Guess I'm out of luck when my present 3D-enabled TV television wears out. There are old sets at eBay and places, but I’m skittish where it comes to such relics, especially where they’ve travelled through mail and you can’t be sure about proper packing. I spoke with a prominent retailer and they said there were complaints about picture quality on second-hand flat screens and it was not worth the effort of fielding them. “Lack of content and waning consumer interest” are also said to have been factors for dropping the 3-D option. Projection TV with goggles give too dark an image like theatres when attempt was made to revive…