 Steve MehsGun Control Is Using A Steady HandPremium
join:2005-07-16 | reply to Simba7
Re: Sets are getting cheaper.. quote:
Sure, I have an HTPC connected to it that can do 3D Bluray through PowerDVD, but the cost of the glasses.. if they'd go down to like $100/pair (or less), I could handle that.
Last December I purchased the Sony 3D starter kit for $350 on Amazon, included two pairs of 3D glasses, the 3D transmitter some Sony 3DTVs need and a copy of Alice In Wonderland in 3D. In the spring they came out with new glasses that were a tad bit lighter and charged via micro USB. So I bought another starter kit. This time $150 for two pairs of 3D glasses and a copy of the third Chronicles of Narnia movie in 3D, not a bad price considering The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 3D is going for about $40 bucks alone.
After not doing it for a while, I finally updated my online content on my TV and now I see Sony has their own 3D app that features quite a bit of demo material in 3D, along with some music videos, sports clips, movie trailers and such. Some of it pretty impressive.
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 heat84Bit Torrent Apologist
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Fort Lauderdale, FL | said by Steve Mehs: quote:
Sure, I have an HTPC connected to it that can do 3D Bluray through PowerDVD, but the cost of the glasses.. if they'd go down to like $100/pair (or less), I could handle that.
Last December I purchased the Sony 3D starter kit for $350 on Amazon, included two pairs of 3D glasses, the 3D transmitter some Sony 3DTVs need and a copy of Alice In Wonderland in 3D. In the spring they came out with new glasses that were a tad bit lighter and charged via micro USB. So I bought another starter kit. This time $150 for two pairs of 3D glasses and a copy of the third Chronicles of Narnia movie in 3D, not a bad price considering The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 3D is going for about $40 bucks alone. After not doing it for a while, I finally updated my online content on my TV and now I see Sony has their own 3D app that features quite a bit of demo material in 3D, along with some music videos, sports clips, movie trailers and such. Some of it pretty impressive. 3D glasses that need charged? What? And why would they cost $400? I thought all 3D glasses were the same.
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| Glasses cost a lot because it's a guaranteed income stream once you buy the TV as you lose or break them or you want more poeple to be able to watch TV with you.
In addition, one of the unknown gotcha's to the glasses are that they typically are matched to the manufacturer of the TV, so if you bought a sony TV with Sony glasses, and then later replace the Sony TV with a Samsung (or whatever), you will need to replace the glasses to match the TV and that's more $$ for the TV maker.
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 vpokoPremium
join:2003-07-03
Boston, MA | reply to heat84
said by heat84:3D glasses that need charged? What? And why would they cost $400? I thought all 3D glasses were the same.
3D TV's usually use active shutter glasses where liquid crystals darken at the right moment to prevent an image from getting to one eye. The frames alternate between left-eye and right-eye and you get a stereoscopic image because each eye is only getting the correct perspective. This requires expensive, active 3D glasses.
This is different from how 3D is done in movie theaters, where two projectors are used. Each projector puts out circularly-polarized light, one clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Each lens only allows the correct polarization through (horizontal/vertical polarization can also be used, but doesn't allow for head-tilting). The polarized light method allows for cheap glasses, but can't be done at home (or at least isn't in most 3D TV's, though maybe some manufacturers have figured it out, I have no idea since I haven't been in the market for a TV for a while). |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | Visio has 3D TV's that use passive glasses.
I don't think 3D will really take off until autostereoscopic multi-view (i.e., no-glasses) TV's hit the market. It'll be awhile. |
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heat84Bit Torrent Apologist
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Fort Lauderdale, FL | said by PDXPLT:Visio has 3D TV's that use passive glasses.
I don't think 3D will really take off until autostereoscopic multi-view (i.e., no-glasses) TV's hit the market. It'll be awhile.
4D will be out by then. 
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| said by heat84:said by PDXPLT:Visio has 3D TV's that use passive glasses.
I don't think 3D will really take off until autostereoscopic multi-view (i.e., no-glasses) TV's hit the market. It'll be awhile.
4D will be out by then. tecnichly it already could be considered 4d depth height and length and 4th dimension is time |
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heat84Bit Torrent Apologist
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Fort Lauderdale, FL | said by zed2608:said by heat84:said by PDXPLT:Visio has 3D TV's that use passive glasses.
I don't think 3D will really take off until autostereoscopic multi-view (i.e., no-glasses) TV's hit the market. It'll be awhile.
4D will be out by then. tecnichly it already could be considered 4d depth height and length and 4th dimension is time So 3DTV's have flux capacitors in them? What happens when you put on channel 88?
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| said by heat84:So 3DTV's have flux capacitors in them? What happens when you put on channel 88?
rofl get a dvr and travel though 4d |
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