Re: Beware of fake 3-D

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Wier writes

>This kind of reminds me when color tv first came on the market (all you
>young 'uns out there missed this!).  You could go down to the corner
>five and dime (which is now the dollar general store) and buy a device
>which gave you instant color tv, even if you had a black & white tv! Even
>if the station wasn't transmitting in color!
>
>It was a piece of plastic that you stuck onto your tv screen. It was colored
>blue at the top and brown at the bottom. Worked well enough for landscape
>shots in westerns, I guess, but gave Miss Kitty a very strange appearance!

Well you now what the above reminds me of? Those $20 plans for transforming
your 20 inch television into a $2000 projection television set. You can
still see these advertised sometimes!

Regards
Gabriel


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