out of date? maybe, but its like buying a bus ticket for the year 3842, totally useless
regardless of how sharp the image is, 16x or 16,000,000x times. 3D, 4D or even smell-o-vision, it's completely useless unless you have video that supports that... meaning, movie makers, TV shows, etc., all need to upgrade their already insanely expensive equipment to handle this.
when I lived in LA, they had HD news casts out pretty quick. Here is normalville, we just got our news casts in HD. Think they are going to cough up another few million for 17280p? doubtful. Thats why you don't see a lot of 3D content either.