Finally Time to Bring 3-D Home

I am a 79-year-old retired photographer. I have been shooting stereo slides since 1952. I am almost as big a stereo nut as Harold Lloyd was. If I had had his money to spend on the hobby, I might have surpassed him.

I have championed 3-D for the past 53 years, but it seems we just had to wait for technology to catch up with art before the industry would take it seriously. (See Platforms, page 30.)

As regards 3-D for the home theater, I must disagree with those who think it would be a very small part of the market. I guess they think that way because of marketing studies that have been done showing what appeared to be a small interest in 3-D for the home theater.

I have had an inexpensive field sequential system for several years now and I am convinced that shutter glasses are the best way to 3-D for the home theatre. That is, until someone comes out with a reliable autostereoscopic home system, but that may take years — years during which money will not be made.

Someone should start a movement to educate the public on the field sequential system. I think they will be most receptive. The technology is here, why not use it?

Christopher R. Mohr Sr., Homeland, Calif.

New York’s a Tough Town for Verizon

The biggest problem for Verizon [in New York City], as it was for their old-school cable predecessors, is to get access to multiple-unit buildings, negotiating with each and every landlord, co-op and condo board for the right to wire the place up. Will there truly be fiber to the home … or fiber to a demarc and copper inside? Will landlords allow two wire courses inside those crown mouldings? Will Verizon drop its insistence on a two-year contract? Will Verizon develop unique programming options? And will the denser inner cities be wired last, no matter what franchise agreements may say? In New York, pole-in-the-yard neighborhoods like Bayside, Queens will be wired probably 10 years in advance of say Harlem or Bedford-Stuyvesant. And also in N.Y., will FiOS ever have a home Knicks game in HD? Good luck.

Dave Roberts, New York