If 2010 was supposed to be 3-D's coming-out party, then in 2011 the party is poised to continue as manufacturers do their best to make this trendy technology truly stick.
While 3-D can be an incredibly enjoyable, and visually stunning, form of entertainment, there's something unnerving about a market largely driven on the supply side by manufacturers rather than by consumer demand.
A report in October 2010 by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said that 131,000 units were sold domestically between April and September 2010. That's only 1.34 percent of all flat-screen television sales.