What exactly is a 3D HDTV and what will it proposition me?

I've been hearing seriously about this 3D HDTV and I'm very interested. But inopportunely I live in South Africa and we don't really get the best information on these types of things here.

When will it be released within SA? Will I need glasses? How much will it cost? What will it allow me to do beside my PS3?

I have a lot more question, but any info you can give me would be much appreciated.


Answers: I don't have release date or cost info re SA, but very briefly, 3D gives a sense of depth to a scene, as if you be alongside the camera while the action is being film. It's done by capturing separate images for respectively eye. The two images are isolated by means of special electronic goggles as you watch the scene on the 3D TV.

It can only be done next to a very few sets currently marketed by Samsung and Panasonic, and you entail the special glasses that come with them. And it one and only works on programming that is originated within that technology.
The cost of a 3D TV is approximately $3000-4000 USD for about a 55" display.

The first 3D TVs are expected to reach SA immensely shortly, as early as next month, and indubitably by September you will start to see competition from several major brands.

The wireless 3D Glasses are battery powered and are relatively expensive at about $150 USD/pair, sometimes even more.

By the end of this year, or sometime subsequent year, you will be able to play a number of PS3 games contained by true stereoscopic 3D (with realistic dimension and depth). It is also possible to play 3D Blu-Ray movies on your 3D TV via your PS3.

You will also be able to see 3D broadcast TV channels if you have a compatible set-top box (this is becoming popular for mixed sporting events in Australia and the United States right now).The 3d tvs will use the field sequential or frame sequential 3d format. It looks freshly like polarized 3d in most theaters that use tinted eyeglasses that are passive and have no moving parts. pasture sequential uses shutter glasses that open and close, near one lens opening while the other one closes and they do this back and forth markedly fast. Then when one lens is open the emblem for that eye will flash on screen. This works different from polarized which all departed eye images have one polarize street lamp wave and all right eye metaphors a second polarized light wave. Then the lenses of the specs block the light wave for the other eye. Field sequential is used for tv because polarized have its own draw backs when used for tv although polarized 3d televisions do exist. The blind has to be made to put out two polarized light top.


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