Vent: If you want the picture to be 3D, switch the glasses on!

Humphrey10

!!!!!! wrote: »

3D does nothing for me in the cinema. Maybe because, as a specs wearer, the 3D glasses are not the optimum distance to work correctly and tend to give a slight tunnel vision effect due to the distance from the eye.

Why no clip-ons?

Interesting - I'm slightly short sighted, I can see films OKish without my glasses (but it's a little blurry), the 3D effect works just as well if not slightly better if I wear my glasses + the 3D glasses, than when I wear just the 3D glasses.

vyle

delain wrote: »

Since my eyes don't work together (and never have, I even had surgery as a child for it but to no avail) I am unable to use ANY 3D glasses. The images just flick between red and green where my eyes can't adjust to it and it gives me a headache :mad:

3D doesn't use red and green any more unless you're getting a 3D dvd. Modern 3D for TVs flips the tv's image between the left and right version incredibly quickly, while the glassed shutter out the appropriate eye... that's why it's called active 3d, not passive 3d, because the glasses are actively doing something. You get some darkening, but when in 3d mode, the tvs brighten up to counter it.

Also, even if everything WAS broadcast in 3d, you don't have to watch it in 3d, you just choose the 2D option.

vyle

gordikin wrote: »

Vyle, can I suggest you are in the wrong job mate. I am by no means tech. challenged...I can pull PC's to bits and diagnose and repair many problems. I do need help and guidance with TV's though LCD. LED, Plasma etc...not my forte...I need help there!

Vyle put your money where job is...tell us your name and who you work for...thought not.

Like I said, I do mostly enjoy my job, but I had to vent about a couple of things that have grown to be incredibly irritating.

And I'm not going to say where I work, or what my name is, because this is a big forum and if someone from head office were to see, I'd get fired... not to mention the other security risks of giving out my name online.

hollydays

My opinion,for what its worth! If you are lucky enough to have someone come into your shop who hasn't done their research,presumably thats exactly the kind of customer who can be easily parted from their money or alternatively, the kind of customer who will really appreciate your advice if not given information overload?

If they are not listening,the problem is largely yours,why not try to find out exactly what they want to know,and only answer those questions.You have to pitch your sale at the customer in language they can understand.

A while ago I popped into a large outlet to do a quick reccy on slimline cd /ipod players.I wasn't going to buy one there and then,but had a few minutes to kill.The salesman allowed me to ask question,and LISTENED to me.If he had rambled on and on with specifics I would have thought "arrogant T osser", and never gone back.

Salesmen can't know too much-but they can talk too much!

vyle

Humphrey10 wrote: »

Interesting - I'm slightly short sighted, I can see films OKish without my glasses (but it's a little blurry), the 3D effect works just as well if not slightly better if I wear my glasses + the 3D glasses, than when I wear just the 3D glasses.

Yeah, glasses for 3D tvs are design to fit over existing glasses, and as long as you can see out of both eyes, it should work, although it does take some getting used to and does give me a headache after a while. I'm not fond of it, tbh, but I understand why it's become more common - it's not really possible to pirate a 3d movie in the cinema, but it is really easy to pirate them.

Actively avoiding buying a 3D tv if youre in the market for a tv can be counter productive, though, because manufacturers automatically put 3d in most of their higher end sets. It'd be akin to refusing to buy a really nice car, with comfortable seats, perfect steering and all the amenities you could ever want, just because you want a car which cannot go faster than 70.

deanos

Dave101t wrote: »

Not to comet staff, 5 days a week and still thick as !!!!!!

Sums up the majority of staff in the big electrical chains, you ask them something then they just repeat back what's on the label in front of them totally avoiding the question you asked

fluffnutter

Remind me never to buy anything from someone who has so much disdain for customers. Seriously, get a different job if you don't like working with the public.

vyle

hollydays wrote: »

My opinion,for what its worth! If you are lucky enough to have someone come into your shop who hasn't done their research,presumably thats exactly the kind of customer who can be easily parted from their money or alternatively, the kind of customer who will really appreciate your advice if not given information overload?

If they are not listening,the problem is largely yours,why not try to find out exactly what they want to know,and only answer those questions.You have to pitch your sale at the customer in language they can understand.

A while ago I popped into a large outlet to do a quick reccy on slimline cd /ipod players.I wasn't going to buy one there and then,but had a few minutes to kill.The salesman allowed me to ask question,and LISTENED to me.If he had rambled on and on with specifics I would have thought "arrogant T osser", and never gone back.

Salesmen can't know too much-but they can talk too much!

I answer the questions they ask and clarify when they generalise it to the point of being wrong.

For instance, when someone says, "Is LED better than LCD?"

Some will reply, "Yes."

However, that's not necessarily correct. Yes, LED technology is more efficient, but that doesn't mean that all LED TVs are better than LCD TVs. I'm sure Technika now do LED tvs, but I bet it's considerably worse than a Panasonic LCD TV.

If I were to say yes and leave it at that, the customer will end up buying a crap LED TV then return it and call me a liar. Most customers have thanked me for clearing up their confusion and I keep it as simple as possible, but if someone is asking why plasma is better for 3D than LED, you can't answer it without mentioning response time.

Then they ask what response time is, and that's to do with pixel cooldown...

Unless I'm just meant to reply with "well it just is." In which case, a post would spring up here berating the arrogant !!!!!! who refused to answer a question as it was beneath him, or something.

hollydays

If someone says "are led better than lcd",surely you would need to quickly establish what benefits they wanted,at what price.You sell benefits,not features.For example with my cdplayer ipod thingy,I wanted something stylish with slimline speakers,but not the cheapest quality.I wouldnt want to know how many megawhooshes per gallon..

kajstring24

Anyone that's telling the OP to find a new job need to take their condescending tones elsewhere imo. We all have complaints about our jobs, it doesn't mean that we should change them. I thought this section of the forum was called 'rants?' Evidently that name is only relevant to some when it suits them...