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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)

Anyone own one , Should I get one, is there a real advantage or are they wank?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Load of bollox. You have to watch through Buddy Holly glasses.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you need to wear funny glasses to watch it? Sorry, rude to answer a question with a question and not at all helpful!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well i thinks they are ace and am waitin patiently fa this telly ta pack up but aint had it that long yet xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd wait a couple of years for the tech to improve.

Most require shutter glasses (TV shows alternate left/right eye pics, glasses mask out the correct eye), which are expensive extras if you have more than 1 person watching the TV.

Can also give you a headache due to using average inter-pupil distances.

There are some that use lenticular lenses on the screen and so do not require glasses, but have a very limited view angle (they work kinda like those rulers/cards you had as a kid where you angle it to see different pictures).

I have heard they are quite good for 3D sports but otherwise a bit of a novelty.

It will take them at least 5 years to figure out how to make good tv programmes in 3D, depth of field and quick edits etc the main stay of 2D tv/film is a big no-no for 3D, unless you want your audience to throw up.

All been said I expect most new tvs to be "3D" ready, much like they where "HD" ready over the last few years.

cheers.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

Personally I think the current range of 3D TVs are a bit of a gimmick, however, Toshiba has developed 3D TVs that don't require you to wear the stereoscopic glasses. They work pretty much the same way as the Nintendo DS 3D works.

Currently the screens are small, but it'll only be a matter of time before they're able to produce TVs with the same size panels as we're all used to now.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon


"Do you need to wear funny glasses to watch it? Sorry, rude to answer a question with a question and not at all helpful! "
Yes, for now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i really cant see watching a 3D telly daily being any good for your eyes at all you know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is always the problem of generating the x number of images required for multiple view angles, and more importantly transmitting them to your set. Heck 3D tv required a spec update on HDMI just so it can carry the extra bandwidth (you'll need v1.4+ spec cables for full 1080 3D).

What we really want is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEhCSaCekDI

But you'd need a massive room behind to house all the projectors, and it doesn't/didn't do moving stuff!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The thing that will sell it is 3D porn

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon


"The thing that will sell it is 3D porn"

Oh yes!

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)

Never thought of the porn aspect! Ron Jeremy in 3D waggling his Robbin might be a bit scary in close up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the next gen 3d tv's will be available by late next year.

and according to reports you will not need the glasses.

do not ask me how it works but it is on the way.all the major tv makers were talking about it at the last tech show in L.A.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i`d love to see porn on one ???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

3d pornos are already available.

because the latest pc graphics cards are 3d ready.

nvidia 3d graphics cards come with the glasses.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

watch the football in 3D in one of the sky pubs... it is a different experience, wouldn't say it is better at the moment...

the slowmo's are great, but really action gives ya a massive headache...

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

It doesnt look like proper 3D...ie the type you get in the disney cinemas in orlando

Give em two years and they will be 300 quid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am not getting one right now as i think will come down in costs and will get alot better and would find it funny looking at the family in glassses.

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By *-and-KCouple
over a year ago

Back of Beyond

Thought this was about something else entirely

However look at it this way.

LCD/Plasma came on the market, once market was almost saturated-

in came Hi Def lcd, once the market was almost saturated-

in came LED tv, once the market was almost saturated-

in came 3D TV with glasses, once the market is almost saturated-

in comes the next 3D tv with the ability to watch without wearing the glasses.

See a pattern here? all marketing ploys to get you to out and buy the latest 'must have' consumerism at its best.

The next generation of 3D tv without glasses is already undergoing testing by the manufacturers now. give it another 12-18 months for the market to be ready and they will be released.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lenticular lens technology (3D without the glasses) has been around for over a decade now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens

It works like those child rulers:

http://www.promo-wholesale.com/Upfiles/Prod_j/12-x1-1-4--Hd-Lenticular-Ruler_20090815602.jpg

The problems are narrow viewing angle, and the multiple images required for different angles. These problems are not insurmountable but there is the issue of bandwidth plus the huge expense and complexity of shooting 3D. (I'm sure many of you saw the making of David Attenborough's 3D Dinosaurs thing over the holiday week).

Give it 5 years and it will be standard on most new sets.

However don't expect a lot of good content for a long time, it's like back 100 years when they where learning how to do cinema for the first time!

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West


"Thought this was about something else entirely

However look at it this way.

LCD/Plasma came on the market, once market was almost saturated-

in came Hi Def lcd, once the market was almost saturated-

in came LED tv, once the market was almost saturated-

in came 3D TV with glasses, once the market is almost saturated-

in comes the next 3D tv with the ability to watch without wearing the glasses.

See a pattern here? all marketing ploys to get you to out and buy the latest 'must have' consumerism at its best.

The next generation of 3D tv without glasses is already undergoing testing by the manufacturers now. give it another 12-18 months for the market to be ready and they will be released."

Very good observation there BK ...I have always said the same..one ommision though..it wasnt that long ago when they were telling us that the old square tv's were a thing of the past and we 'had' t get the 'new' (curved) widescreen ones...they had only been out five minutes when the 'new' flat widescreens came out..then after only a year we were told scrap them and buy the new plasma/lcd's...

The problem was that when the older style square tellys needed an upgrade you could chuck them in the bedroom...no chance of that with those great big silver. grey things...so...up the dump they went, all in perfect working order.

Its so sad, but we live in a throw away world...'dont repair it..throw it away'

Thats one of the reasons nothing is built to last.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maybe I'm getting old but I just don't see the attraction with 3D. Sure it's good at the cinema for some films but it doesn't really add that much to the whole film experience.

Watching 3D football means listening to non A list comentators and at some grounds the viewing angle is so low to show the depth you can't really see a lot of the game.

It all just seems pretty gimmicky to me.

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

I'm going to go out tomorrow and spend £3500 on a 3D tv.

As long as it can play my Betamax tapes, Philips Laser Discs, Digital cassettes,is compatible with my Square British Satellite Broadcasting dish and it can hook it up to my Amstrad emailer phone.

I might order it using my Rabbit mobile, one of their 'phone zones' is outside the shop.

Dunno how i'll get it in the back of my Sinclair C5 though.

Retailers love me.

Because i'm a fucking moron.

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By *-and-KCouple
over a year ago

Back of Beyond


"I'm going to go out tomorrow and spend £3500 on a 3D tv.

As long as it can play my Betamax tapes, Philips Laser Discs, Digital cassettes,is compatible with my Square British Satellite Broadcasting dish and it can hook it up to my Amstrad emailer phone.

I might order it using my Rabbit mobile, one of their 'phone zones' is outside the shop.

Dunno how i'll get it in the back of my Sinclair C5 though.

Retailers love me.

Because i'm a fucking moron.

"

Th elaser discs were fun while they lasted though, as to the biggest load of dross--The Squariel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Until the tv companies start to put on some better programmes than the rehashed shite that is being broadcast at the moment, I'd not spend another penny on any hardware.

Until then I'll stick to my 20" Philips 210 black and white valve set.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Its so sad, but we live in a throw away world...'dont repair it..throw it away'

Thats one of the reasons nothing is built to last."

One of the reasons I left the TV trade after 20 odd years - no fucker wanted to spend the money on repairs and they went to Currys and bought a cheap pile of shit made by Matsui, or Sansui or any other name that the Koreans could make up which sounded Japanese.

Now that I've been out of the trade over 10 years, there is once again some good repairable kit out there, but I'm too far gone and wouldn't have a clue where to begin repairing it

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

It took me a long time to figure out what I disliked about 3D media.

Initially it was the fact that filmmakers would use any excuse to exploit it in a really tacky way (oh noooooo, the shark's coming right for us!!!! ), but now it's more that it still doesn't look real.

It looks like a series of 2D images are being projected at once - it's like watching a series of overlaid photo's, not an actual vista.

...if that makes sense.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

It looks like a series of 2D images are being projected at once - it's like watching a series of overlaid photo's, not an actual vista.

...if that makes sense."

That is the case of stuff that is turned into 3D from a 2D source. For example the recent Alice in Wonderland film, so it looks like those cardboard theatres with 2D cut outs at different distances. Avatar was filmed in proper 3D and probably why it cost around ~$300 million

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else


"

It looks like a series of 2D images are being projected at once - it's like watching a series of overlaid photo's, not an actual vista.

...if that makes sense.

That is the case of stuff that is turned into 3D from a 2D source. For example the recent Alice in Wonderland film, so it looks like those cardboard theatres with 2D cut outs at different distances. Avatar was filmed in proper 3D and probably why it cost around ~$300 million "

Oddly, those two are the ones I've seen in 3D, and they both looked equally "upscaled 2D" (for want of a better phrase)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It could be your inter-pupil distance, if it is not the same as the "average" then the 3D effect is diminished and can look odd.

Avatar is the best film to-date in my opinion that uses 3D rather well, not perfect but not things poking in your eyes all the time 3D. But anything over 1.5 hours for me is to long and gives me eye ache. Especially the halo effect where the brightness falls off to the edges of the glasses.

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By *unterslickCouple
over a year ago

tullamore


"Thought this was about something else entirely

However look at it this way.

LCD/Plasma came on the market, once market was almost saturated-

in came Hi Def lcd, once the market was almost saturated-

in came LED tv, once the market was almost saturated-

in came 3D TV with glasses, once the market is almost saturated-

in comes the next 3D tv with the ability to watch without wearing the glasses.

See a pattern here? all marketing ploys to get you to out and buy the latest 'must have' consumerism at its best.

The next generation of 3D tv without glasses is already undergoing testing by the manufacturers now. give it another 12-18 months for the market to be ready and they will be released."

sorry to say this and about your meesage,just picked it,,,

but search holographic tv,and youl see the next gen tv that is coming,we in europe and america are way behind,

think the holograms in star trek and all futuristic tv/films,,,they are on the way and being made now,, so il be saving my cig money(when i give them up,for the next 5 years) just to get one

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else


"It could be your inter-pupil distance, if it is not the same as the "average" then the 3D effect is diminished and can look odd."

My eyes are too close together?? You cheeky fecker!

Just cos I have 17 toes...

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

bono used to be the only guy i know,who wore shades when watching tv.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone own one , Should I get one, is there a real advantage or are they wank?"

Is it a new kind of sex doll?

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