3d TV

i was in Best Buy today and happened into the home theatre area of the store. now, i love the new led tv's and montitors so i was looking at some of the new, big ones there. the salesman naturally came around and i began talking to him about these. then, he mentioned they had some new 3d tv's. i told him i'd heard of these because when i moved the directv guy had mentioned that directv was going to be doing some 3d channels this fall. so, the salesman said that yes, directv already has 10 3d channels. so, naturally i had him give me a demonstration. holy crap! this thing is amazing! he showed me demos of sports, a 3d aquarium, and a musical rock band on stage.

now, this isnt animated 3d. it's 3d. real folks in real settings but 3d. it was really quite amazing. yes, you do need 3d glasses, but these are quite a bit different from the little paper glasses with colored lenses or even the clear ones. these are hard, black plastic and powered by a small battery.

the quality is exceptional. and, there is none of that sort of eye strain, give you a headache type effect with these. now, if you move your head around a lot or walk around a lot while watching you will get an odd parallax sort of effect that is a bit disconcerting but most of us dont do a lot of that while watching tv or a movie.


there were two different brands at the store and i highly recommend you check out the Samsung. i think the other was Sony. the samsung gave less of that disconcerting effect when you moved around and seemed to refresh faster than the other.


the prices are not out of the total realm of possibility, either. the samsung was around $2500 to $2600. this included two sets of glasses. i remarked to the salesman that tht seemed a bit cheap of the company to only include two sets; i mean, what about families with kids? he said the glasses were around $150 each and that was why.

all in all, this is an impressive system and display.

hi red,

yeah, i've seen and heard more about 3d stuff in the last 6 months than the rest of my life combined. i think it was Avatar that finally put it over the edge. it would seem that there are many more movies coming out in 3d now than ever before. i think the salesman said that there were 10 more movies in 3d coming out before christmas of this year. that's a lot of 3d.

hehe, it's not really a parallax shift. it's more of complete perspective shift. as you move right, the deeper objects move left to compensate. if you move left, then the deeper stuff goes right. it's a bit weird, sort of like when the eyes in a picture follow you as you move, but in 3d and yes, i feel the same way only mine were things like ambiient occlusion and normal maps

yes, movies like 'spy kids' or whatever that was and some of the animated ones were ok, but nothing that special. and there were others, but it's been within the last year that i've really noticed an increased proliferation of 3d movies and now with 3d tv it's only going to get more so.

i watched a number of demos at the store and on two different systems. if you get the chance, watch the sports one and i think it was the 'black eyed peas' band and then the 3d aquarium. all three were pretty cool

i dont remember 'Time Traveler'. you old folks are always pulling these dated things out of your hats

77 days!!

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Mongoose King wrote: but what we really need is 3D computer screens

pc 3d

marvelous marvin's... now how come someone didnt tell me about that while i was still living in mich.? i'd have gotten lost in there for a few years

yup, one of these days i'll go back. i used to make a regular yearly pilgramage to ann arbor, but havent done that in a while now. i loved the ann arbor art fair