What's Holding 3D Back? (ARTICLE LINK)

[mjbethancourt]

If a firmware upgrade will do it for a PS3, then I would imagine that it is just a matter of time before a number of other players do the same (not all, of course, but probably many of them).
Just because something hasn't been officially announced, doesn't mean it never will be. That also holds true for the aforementioned Samsung televisions: customer support said they did not have a firmware upgrade for those televisions, he didn't say they never would.

I disagree with the idea that they need to "more fully establish" blu-ray before they add more features like 3D. From their point of view, they need to continue adding new features exactly for that purpose, to "more fully establish" blu-ray, (which, by the way, has a lot more market presence than some folks here seem to realize). 3D and other new features just help them to stave off the competition for now. I'd like to see blu-ray have a long lifespan, and I don't think that "taking it slowly" is the way to accomplish that, not with the current pace of technological innovation. If they wait for a more serious challenger to blu-ray comes along before adding new features, it will be too late. Consider DVD: if they didn't update to two-layer and anamorphic and upscaling players, etc. then HD-DVD probably would have been rolled out sooner and maybe would have been the immediate successor to DVD (and we would have no blu-ray); instead, DVD remained viable for a few more years, and we were spared from a bad intermediate stage of upgrade.

None of us can see the future, stop beating them over the head on 3D, none of us knows the market any better than those who make their living on it.