Leela Bowl:

My account in the interdimensional wars of 3D TV versus 2D TV.

The name LeelaBowl was chosen by me for this website, because I wanted to emphasize the monocular thinking of 2D TV but thinking of the only character on TV who has a lot of "one eye jokes" and that would be Leela from Futurama. I can't think of any more famous character other than the original Cyclops from Greek mythology that's famous for having one eye.

At around 2009 I've seen some theaters advertisement movies in 3D. At around that same time dad got his current Sony Bravia XBR. It was actually a factory replacement of a 2008 XBR that was defective enough to break down in one year and Sony covered it under the warranty fully.

With the issue of 3D came up in about 2010 my first 3D movie I bought was tried legacy but I didn't have a way to play it. I kind of bought in advance thinking that it would not be around forever in 3D so might as well get it while I can.

Hunch turned out right.

Me and Dad were talking about in 2011 what should we do now that 3D TV's available yet our new Bravia was only a year old. At the time I said don't worry if the Sega Master System could add 3D to any TV then eventually they'll be a technology that will let you add TV 3D to any current 2DTV.

I agree it's not worth throwing out $1,000 just to upgrade the 3D there will be some solution in time.

Then in June of 2011 the NFL announced they were going to broadcast the next Super Bowl in 3D.

There was a little hype but on the Mike Trivasano Show in Cleveland, people in Parma did some research and found out that if the plan was to go through to have a 3D Super Bowl anyone who did not have 3D would be locked out of the Super Bowl.

Well that's strictly locked out. You can still get an image with your rabbit ears. But they're between images that have twice the height ratio compared to a normal 16x9 screen therefore you have to squish it horizontally to fit it on a 16x9 screen.

So unless you like twin images of basketball players playing NFL American football it's going to ruin viewing for as many as 70% of the population and cause a lot of calls to TV station and NFL.

If you think you could enjoy football players at twice the height proportion of their width compared to normal TV let me tell you the story of my friend Jamal Zophar321 Nickens:

What he was competing in the iron Man of Gaming, a game came up that he totally crushed in the Blockbuster tournament of 1994 or 5 I forget which year he competed, Sonic the hedgehog 3.

The problem was on the iron Man gaming is that they gave you a 16x9 screen and had it in stretch mode so that 4x3 image would fit a 16x9 screen.

The big problem in platformers is that alters the XY ratio which is very important in platforming/jumping games or judging heights and lengths is very important it has to be done instinctively. It's not instinctive to anticipate that you're really jumping twice as high as the game suggests or going half as long. Let's just say he died and complained that he didn't know the TV was in 16 by 9 until and the game was set and stretch mode until after he picked up and played it, the iron Man gaming had to write new rules to make sure everyone has the proper ratio they want before they press start. It was either the original intended ratio or user's choice. Most of the people there do Sonic the hedgehog in 16x9 on stretch screens on the Xbox compilation but Jamal played on the Genesis which was with 4x3 screens and 16x9 stretch altered the visually perceived gameplay. If it causes this much hullabaloo for one person imagine how much it would cost for the largest show America offers the world and 70% of the audience being technologically unprepared for it and being locked out of it.

I was paying off a lawyer bill for some other problem I was having. But after year of paying it off on a social security disability allowance from the government, I was finally out of debt in August 2012 and luckily the number one 3D TV was down to $200 mainly the Sony PlayStation 3D TV.

It was exactly the TV the house needed: a 3D TV but without throwing away the big screen in the main room.

I didn't Best Buy if they'd say the PlayStation 3D TV was the number one 3D TV. As it turns out they said it was the number one TV choice among the customers who came in and first said "I want a 3D TV" ( with an implied "or don't sell me a TV at all"). Before the 2011 announcements 3D was just an add-on. People who might be spending $1,000 for a new TV said might as well add another hundred to get 3D. Celebrated a couple of TVs that outsold it's under that sales approach. But the PlayStation 3D TV was the Model T of the 3D TV world.

Luckily I got on the debts in August of 2012 and within 4 months I saved up enough to buy a PlayStation 3D TV on December of 2012 which literally came down another $20 in price just before they cleared out everything.

Why were 3D TVs dropping when they were becoming rarer?

One of my friends was an active 3D hater. (My words, not his) if I want to paint his perspective in a positive light, I'd say that he did not want to be a slave to technology where you were forced to upgrade or die culturally. Which is kind of funny because I had that same problem with the internet being unavailable to me for Xbox except in the conpromise form of cellular, while unbeknownst to me at the time, cellular was being regulated to be minimized because we were stuck at 500 kilobits per second in 200 kilobits out which was good for some games on the Xbox 360 but definitely not good for Xbox One that would come a couple years later. At the time I made a new URL called 56ok.org where I reviewed video games based on whether they would fit in the limited bandwidth of cellular that some people are forced to use in order to play Xbox Live yet it's not good enough to be considered minimal standard.

He was shaken up by the news in Parma (give me the other communities that researched and protested against the 3D Super Bowl but Parma was the one closest to us in the Cleveland metro area.)

He was one of the ones that treated it like a war that if we gave an inch on 3D then we'd be forced to wear glasses every time we watch TV.

Though we were heated about whether to get the 4K version or the 3D version as 4K became more common and 3D less common in America mostly due to this Leela Bowl.

So you got 30% of people who own 3D but rarely use it for the most part about 5% who actually do use 3D someone actively among that 30%, at 5% who are actively buying TVs at premiums that exclude 3D, therefore making 3D a "negative value feature" for the TV makers.

First 3D TV was killed because of the Suoer Bowl debackle. At the time it looked like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 was envisioned to be in 3D (if you look at the opening credits it's obvious there's a lot of play towards the front for pop out effects.)

But because the Leela Bowl was protested, I guess Nickelodeon didn't either want to shut out 70% of the audience who didn't have 3D TV or didn't want TMNT 2012 to be seen as a trojan horse for the 3D TV industry which is understandable. They don't want kids saying mommy I got to buy a 3D TV to watch Turtles and then the parents if they don't agree, have protests against Nickelodeon sort of like the Parma people against the NFL.

I say the problem was making 3D TV 2D incompatible. Color TV succeeded because it worked well with black and white in the 50s and 60s. Closed captioning works because if you were deaf you would know about it but if you were you would appreciate it. Stereo works because it was mono compatible. Dolby surround sound worked because it briadcasts and taped were backwards compatible with stereo and mono.

There were only two instances where in major media the new was incompatible with the old in terms of government standards of entertainment media.

HDTV was incompatible with standard TV. Some people were hanging on to analog until 2009. We literally did till 2008. But the government was pushing it to the point where it would keep both operating until digital converters were so cheap that with 80% of the $50 subsidized people could buy for 10 bucks more channels to clear the way to demolish the analog stations.

Everyone converted without a problem.

However with 3D, I don't know if the government was threatening, or the advertisers were threatening, or more audiences like Parma were threatening, that 70% of the people were shut out of the Super Bowl, the NFL and TV industry was catching heat. The problem was it was an "update or die culturally" mentality we just got done upgrading to HDTV and they expect us to throw out our TVs just to go to 3D just to watch the Super Bowl. My friend is right that we don't have money to burn. But it's not the fault of binocular TV. On other pages on this website I talked about ways you can slipstream it through an existing 2D Market and I talk about how the industry can finally make 3D a "positive value feature" meaning companies will sell it, make profits, and customers don't feel like they're throwing out $2,000 TVs that could last another five to eight years just to upgrade in one area where they possibly have to downgrade in another area.

To read about the inter-dimensional war between 3D lovers and 3D haters. Fighting for the middle 90%, click here.

To read about technology that existed in the 1980s that could have avoided this Leela Bowl debacle, and if used now, can increase profits and disarm the market power of the 3D Haters, click here.

To read about clever bandwidth resourcing that would have made in most cases 3D a bandwidth neutral feature compared to 2D TV and a way to broadcast 3D TV in a way that makes it 2D compatible click here.

To read about the 3D TV being an extinct species of technology, click here.

To read ways you can view existing 3d programming and the "easy way" to film in 3d, click here.

To read about how to avoid 3d headaches when watching 3d by waiting for the home release and buying the right 3d tv (once they make them again) , click here.