I've just read a report that 3d tv is going to be the "saviour of the television manufacturing industry."

Presumably on the basis that everyone is going to rush out and buy a 3d tv set.

My question is why do you need a special tv set to watch 3d?

Surely all the information needed to view a 3d show is encoded at the transmitter and displayed on the screen of a perfectly standard tv set. It's the 3d glasses with their red and green filtered lenses that send the appropriate image to each eye.

So as far as I can see you should not need a special 3d tv set to watch 3d.

Does anyone here know better?

Of course, you're wasting you time if you have only a black and white tv set.

Kortpeel

I don't think the 3d glasses are green and red anymore, I think they use a polarized lens now. --FLO--

Kortpeel (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:46 am I've just read a report that 3d tv is going to be the "saviour of the television manufacturing industry."

Presumably on the basis that everyone is going to rush out and buy a 3d tv set.

My question is why do you need a special tv set to watch 3d?

Surely all the information needed to view a 3d show is encoded at the transmitter and displayed on the screen of a perfectly standard tv set. It's the 3d glasses with their red and green filtered lenses that send the appropriate image to each eye.

So as far as I can see you should not need a special 3d tv set to watch 3d.

Does anyone here know better?

Of course, you're wasting you time if you have only a black and white tv set.

Kortpeel

There are many different technologies for 3d displays. Some will work with black and white tv too (like shutter glasses).

The only one use of 3d TV I can think of for myself is to connect it as a computer monitor. I rarely watch TV this days...

The New 3D tv's fall under the HD 1080p specs. and all future TV's will have it included. What does this means? 1) you will need to have an HD tv with 1080p to get the 3d. 2) You will need polarized 3D glasses to see it. 3) Wait tell later in the year (at least) to purchase a new TV, and 4) it will take 5 to 10 years for it to completely role out from broadcasters down through the cable provider then your TV (each one will have to have 3D for it work of course if you have a 3D movie playing in a DVD player that supports 3D and the TV with 3D then your in businesses!)

Personally, I am waiting for the 3D porn to pop up! just think of it some porn star with a huge dick walks up to the camera and shakes it into the lens...i think it will give me black and blue marks!

If I was wearing 3-D glasses, could I see Paolo's or Uncle Flo's true form?

I will get 3D television just as soon as one no longer has to wear the dorky glasses in order to watch it.

JD

As I understand it, 3D images are an optical illusion that tricks the mind by having each eye look a a different image, it is highly unlikely that there will ever be a technology that will allow this with out the dorky glasses.

When watching 3D, you are actually watching two sets of images. The glasses are polarized so that the left eye can only see half the image on the scree and the right eye sees the other half. Nearly impossible to do without some kind of facegear...

The Lurker (imported) wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:32 am As I understand it, 3D images are an optical illusion that tricks the mind by having each eye look a a different image, it is highly unlikely that there will ever be a technology that will allow this with out the dorky glasses.

When watching 3D, you are actually watching two sets of images. The glasses are polarized so that the left eye can only see half the image on the scree and the right eye sees the other half. Nearly impossible to do without some kind of facegear...

There is at least one system, which does not require glasses. Look up "parallax barrier system". But it has a disadvantage of having narrow viewing angles.

I did not get a pair of dorky glasses when I went to see Avatar, they looked just like sun glasses.

Its coming, its going to be bigger then blue ray, it makes flat screens out of date, and I am out of time, I still use the old stile analog TV, OMG the horror of it all.

River