Wednesday, September 14, 2011

3D-TV: an environmental aspect

World is always changing. Not long ago, High Quality (HD) TV has just showed up, now, an even more high technology Television is developed and put into the market – the 3D television. Such new technology and items claimed that they are improving our quality of life, indeed, is the other way rounded. They are improving the entertainment we enjoyed, but they are deeply destroying the environment of the world, which highly affect our quality of life too.

3D TV is an emerging technology that allows consumers to enjoy three-dimensional movies, television programs and video games in their homes. The technology requires the purchase of new television equipment, including a 3D-ready TV, a 3D-capable Blu-ray player and also a 3"D glasses” (http://tv.about.com). If we want to enjoy movie, TV programs or video games, what we got now can already allow us to do so. But if you want to step into the 3-D world, you need to buy for the new one even thought the one you are using is still running quite well. Such additional action will lead to more serious of electronic waste problem. Those disposed TV or electronic devices will expose some destructive substances such as lead, mercury and hexavalent chromium, which will cause bad effects on human body through air, water, or other ways. So when you decide to step into the 3-D world, you are actually using the surrounding environment and your health to exchange the slightly more joy from the new technology. But the environment will be deeply destroyed because of your slightly more joy.

Despite causing water pollution or air pollution, 3D TV also limit the use of land. To store more disposed e-waste, more land are required, so more trees might be destroyed because of this. Even the land can be free after few years, the land cannot be reused because there will accumulate lots of destructive substances, trees cannot grow, people cannot live there, no houses will be built on the top. At the end, the land become useless except storing rubbish, a large piece of land will be wasted. Also large quantity of trees are being destroyed with no reverse action can be done.

One more concern is about the additional equipment used in watching the 3D TV, which are the 3D glasses. When you need to watch TV, no longer as simple as before, not just sitting in front of it but also need to wear 3D glasses. If each family got 4 members, there should be 4 glasses in house. And we got thousand million of families in the world, the demand for 3D glasses would be very great. That means, a very large amount of resources will be used in producing this extra equipment. The world is already running out of resources, people are seeking for reusable resources, but the appear of 3D TV lead to the extra waste of resources on those extra glasses needed, without the 3D TV, such resources can be saved to do some more meaningful things.

At the end, what 3D TV can bring to our environment is waste, destructive waste and pollutions.

Reference
  1. http://tv.about.com/od/frequentlyaskedquestions/f/3DTV_FAQ.htm
  2. http://earth911.com/news/2007/04/19/throw-away-your-television/

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