The big Consumer Electronics Show gets underway tomorrow and the likes of Sony and Toshiba are hard at work trying to convince me that my brand new LCD TV is already an aging relic and that the future of home entertainment is 3-D. I remain unpersuaded. I’m still trying to decide if I can distinguish between the image quality of a Blu-Ray disc versus a standard DVD, so it’s probably premature for electronics manufacturers to convince me that I need to put on a pair of silly-looking glasses to watch an episode of Lost (or whatever the next geek soap is). I’m sure the effect is cool, but childhood memories of those flimsy cardboard red-and-blue 3-D glasses and their disappointing results have made me instinctively suspicious of any claims regarding 3-D’s awesome factor. And no, I haven’t yet seen Avatar in 3-D, so I might still be converted into a true believer. Even so, I’m quite happy with the old-school world of 2-D entertainment.
However, I desperately want Apple’s tablet computer even though I’m not totally sure what it does, how it works, or whether it even exists. My resistance to the hype machine is somewhat hit-and-miss.
