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3D TV
Posted by Native on 23 December 2011 - 12:39pm.
Was thinking about maybe picking up a 3D TV in the sales.
Anybody on here got one?
Are they worth all the fuss? Must admit, I enjoy the 3D stuff at the cinema, but I’m not convinced how much of that can be recreated in the frontroom…
Sky are running an offer at the moment meaning you get some cash back on buying a TV and also subscription to their 3D channel is free if you have the other channels, so was thinking of giving it a whirl….
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The Economist
The economist seems to suggest they are worth buying http://www.economist.com/node/21540381
"the premium that 3D sets once commanded has all but vanished. They are now worth buying, not so much for their ability to show 3D content, but because they display 2D even better than conventional plasma or LCD sets"
In my case the GLW would definitely be the FPO if I suggested a 3DTV. Twins would love it though. Actually, scrub that - I can forsee them fighting over the best position to watch.
The technology...
... really does work, and when I first saw it I was amazed. However, and this is based on me watching 3D footie in the pub, it just doesn't look like real-life 3D perspective - everything is too focused. It's probably great for animation but for real life, not great. But, if your buying it for the family, like PW says, the kid's will love it.
The Samsung LED ones are excellent
I wouldn't have 3D myself but the 55" are only available as 3D (a button on the remote makes it 2D). I did a conference where Sky demoed theirs and they don't expect you to watch everything 3D, just "events" such as films or sport.
How much 3D content
is there at the moment (on broadcast media or on DVD?).
Not a great deal
I don't think there is much from a broadcast perspective. Sky only have one channel and it seems to repeat lots of stuff and then there is the live event stuff.
I chose not too
on the basis that the £100 or so premium on the TV and then the cost of the glasses for a family of five made it too much considering we would only watch the occasional film. I thought thought decent interent connectivity would be a better investment and have been delighted with iPlayer etc on it as well as Lovefilm (which is good but very occasionally hard to connect to).
There is an LG tv that comes with 7 pairs of glasses - they are the non powered variety like those in the cinema. So the premium is relatively small.
I haven't carried out extensive research on this,
ok, I wandered into John Lewis to buy myself an internet radio (Revo Axis - top tip Twang, many thanks!) and spent twenty minutes gawping at the tellys.
Whatever, from what I've seen, I wouldn't buy one because the 3D sets don't display a 2D picture very nicely at all. Maybe they were not set up correctly (I doubt that, as the John Lewis electronics guys are usually well clued in), but it seemed to me that there was a detectable edge to the objects on screen that were carrying 3D meta data, and it jarred, visually.
Do I need to get my eyes tested, were the sets I saw set up incorrectly, or is this a real phenomenon?
have one
about 8 months now
I did ask on here before buying and was sneered at
PM me if you want my take